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'It's cold today in Wagga Wagga' Weather and climate are different	Coby Beck	03 Nov 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: It was way colder than normal today in Wagga Wagga, proof that there is no global warming. Does this even deserve an answer? If we must ... Answer: The chaotic nature of weather means that no conclusion about climate can ever be drawn from a single data point, hot or cold. The temperature of one place at one time is just weather, and says nothing about climate, much less climate change, much less ...
Topics: climate science, climate change skepticism, climate, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

'The temperature record is simply unreliable' Perhaps, but temperature trends are clear and widely corroborated	Coby Beck	02 Nov 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The surface temperature record is full of assumptions, corrections, differing equipment and station settings, changing technology, varying altitudes, and more. It is not possible to claim we know what the "global average temperature" is, much less determine any trend. The IPCC graphs only say what the scientists want them to say. Answer: There is actually some truth to the part about ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, IPCC (all these topics)

'Glaciers have always grown and receded' A few glaciers melting does not mean global warming	Coby Beck	01 Nov 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: A few glaciers receding today is not proof of global warming. Glaciers have grown and receded differently in many times and places. Answer: Firstly, it is more than "a few glaciers" that are receding; it is a pervasive, sustained, and accelerating global trend. The National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) maintains a chart of global glacier mass balance, and for as far back as ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

'One record year is not global warming' Luckily, there are plenty more years to consider	Coby Beck	31 Oct 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: So 2005 was a record year. Records are set all the time. One really warm year is not global warming. Answer: This is actually not an unreasonable point -- single years taken by themselves can not establish or refute a trend. So 2005 being the hottest globally averaged temperature on record is not convincing. Then how about: every year since 1992 has been warmer than 1992; the ten hottest y ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

'The scientists aren't even sure' No scientist ever is	Coby Beck	30 Oct 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: Even the scientists don't know that the climate is changing more than normal and if it's our fault or not. If you read what they write it is full of 'probably,' 'likely,' 'evidence of' and all kinds of qualifiers. If they don't know for sure, why should we worry yet? Answer: Probability is the language of science. There is no proof; there are no absolute certainties. Scientists are always aware that n ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

'One hundred years is not enough' Yes it is	Coby Beck	29 Oct 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: One hundred and some years of global surface temperatures is not long enough to draw any conclusions from or worry about anyway. Answer: The reliable instrumental record only goes back 150 years in the CRU analysis, 125 in the NASA analysis. This is a simple fact that we are stuck with. 2005 was the warmest year recorded in that period according to NASA, a very close second according to CRU. Because ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

'Warming is due to the Urban Heat Island effect' No, it isn't	Coby Beck	28 Oct 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.Answer: Urban Heat Island Effect has been examined quite thoroughly (PDF) and found to have a negligible effect on temperature trends. Real Climate has a detailed discussion of this here. What's more, NASA GISS takes explicit steps in th ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

'Mauna Loa is a volcano' CO2 rise is measured on top of a volcano!	Coby Beck	27 Oct 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: CO2 levels are recorded on top of Mauna Loa ... a volcano! No wonder the levels are so high. (image courtesty of Global Warming Art)Answer: Yes, it's true, Mauna Loa is an active volcano. In fact it's the biggest volcano on earth! So, should we suppose that Charles Keeling didn't know that? Well, no, he did know it. And using subtle scientific indicators like "wind direction," he was even a ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

'There is no evidence' Yes, there is	Coby Beck	26 Oct 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: Despite what the computer models tell us, there is actually no evidence of significant global warming. Answer: Global warming is not an output of computer models; it is a conclusion based on observations of a great many global indicators. By far the most straightforward evidence is the actual surface temperature record. While there are places -- in England, for example -- that have records going back several ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

Introducing: How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic A new series	David Roberts	26 Oct 2006	Gristmill
We've all encountered them, shuffling across the cultural landscape like desiccated zombies: arguments about climate change that have been bludgeoned with a thousand rebuttals, but keep lurching to life, attacking again and again. Each time they appear, the search begins again for the same rebuttals, the same citations and resources. In the face of this kind of undead onslaught, even Buffy might lose her perk. Coby Beck wants to help. Over the course of 2006, he's wri ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Attacked by Inhofe, finally I have arrived	David Roberts	11 Oct 2006	Gristmill
I think I've finally arrived. I have now joined the august ranks of journalists -- including such luminaries as Tom Brokaw, New York Times environment reporter Andy Revkin, and AP science reporter Seth Borenstein -- publicly attacked by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. They hate me! They really hate me! Some background: EPW is chaired by everyone's favorite flat-earther, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Mongo). A while back, Inhofe hired Marc Mo ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Breaking: There are skeptics	David Roberts	14 Jul 2006	Gristmill
A fine piece of reporting from Gannett News Service, tipping off its readers to the fact that there's a small group of skeptics who don't believe global warming is a threat. In case readers missed that info in every single other piece of vapid he-said she-said transcription that passes for journalism on this subject.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The CEI ads	David Roberts	17 May 2006	Gristmill
OMFG, so, I finally went and watched the TV ads to be aired by the Competitive Enterprise Institute a week before An Inconvenient Truth is released. I'm not sure what I expected, but these things are genuinely funny. They look like nothing so much as a parody produced by Saturday Night Live. The tag line -- the last line of the ad, read dramatically as a little girl blows a dandelion -- is: "Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life." It's a ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, messaging, TV (all these topics)

Why skeptics are skeptics	David Roberts	16 May 2006	Gristmill
A few months ago, on the Scientific American blog, George Musser lamented the malcommunication between global warming skeptics and proponents. He asked readers who were skeptical about the GW consensus to tell him why in comments. They did, to the tune of 170 comments. In a follow-up post, Musser tried to summarize and taxonomize the objections (then, in response to tons of feedback, tried again). I doubt we have many skeptics here, but if you're curious about wh ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The ghost of Ayn Rand reminds us that environmentalists want to KILL US ALL [cue music from Psycho]	David Roberts	17 Apr 2006	Gristmill
We received this op-ed submission from the Ayn Rand Institute, for reasons I don't fully understand. Perhaps they didn't read the site too closely? I dabbled with Rand when I was a bitter adolescent ... which is the appropriate time to dabble with Rand. When you don't grow out of that phase, well, you go to work for the Institute. Anyway, I present, for your amusement and edification: ----- To save mankind requires the wholesale rejection of environmentalism a ...
Topics: books, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

TIME cover story on global warming	David Roberts	26 Mar 2006	Gristmill
The cover story of this week's TIME magazine is on global warming. The title: 'Be Worried. Be Very Worried.' I agree with Chris that this is a huge deal, and further evidence that the issue of global warming is nearing a tipping point in public consciousness. The Battle of the Skeptics is over. They lost. Now talk will turn in earnest to what we can do about it. Unfortunately, I can't read the whole story because I'm not a TIME subscriber. (Any intrepid Gristmill read ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Seattle Times on climate Big front-page report says scientists agree: earth warming	Lisa Hymas	09 Oct 2005	Gristmill
Kudos to The Seattle Times and reporter Sandi Doughton for an extensive report on climate change that cuts through the bullshit. Dominating the front page of the Sunday paper, this headline and subhead: The truth about global warming Scientists overwhelmingly agree: The Earth is getting warmer at an alarming pace, and humans are the cause -- no matter what the skeptics say.In a nice touch, the main article highlights some initially skeptical climate scientists who've be ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Can you say "anthropogenic"? Bush dodges question about whether climate change is caused by humans	Lisa Hymas	07 Jun 2005	Gristmill
After making kissy-face in front of the press corps at the White House today, Bush and Blair took a couple of questions. One reporter asked Bush whether he believes global warming is an anthropogenic problem (without using any big words, of course): And, Mr. President, if I may, as well, on climate change -- you didn't talk about climate change -- do you believe that climate change is manmade and that you, personally, as the leader of the richest country in the world, ha ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, George Bush (all these topics)

Crichton Mad A review of the distorted plot and politics in Michael Crichton's State of Fear	David Roberts	01 Feb 2005	Arts and Minds
Michael Crichton, author of State of Fear. Photo: HarperCollins Publishers. Michael Crichton's State of Fear is an attempt to meld serious politico-scientific critique with a modern techno-thriller. It's an ambitious undertaking, but to paraphrase Thomas Edison, success is 1 percent ambition and 99 percent not writing an awful book. Crichton's novel, alas, is unilluminating ...
Topics: books, celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, politics (all these topics)

At Last, an Evil Worldwide Cabal of Our Own Crichton thriller denies climate change; world fails to laugh at him		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
At Last, an Evil Worldwide Cabal of Our Own Crichton thriller denies climate change; world fails to laugh at him Popular author Michael Crichton's new novel State of Fear features an evil cadre of environmentalists that uses secret technology to cause catastrophic natural disasters in order to convince the public of the dangers of global warming. They are aided by gullible Hollywood typ ...
Topics: books, celebrity, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , insanity (all these topics)

Climate Wars III: Return of the Scientists	David Roberts	10 Dec 2004	Gristmill
Legitimate climate scientists are at something of a disadvantage. They do careful research and publish peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals. Then a squadron of industry-funded pseudo-scientist hacks descends on the popular media to stir up doubt and confusion. By the time the scientists can defend their work in, say, Science, popular attention has moved on. Thus the false sense in the American public that there is real scientific uncertainty about the basic fact ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

It's gettin' hot in herre	Lisa Hymas	01 Nov 2004	Gristmill
The New York Times editorial page took the Bushies to task yesterday for ignoring and distorting science on climate change, echoing accusations made by NASA's top-dog climatologist, Jim Hansen. Speaking in Iowa last week, Hansen castigated the Bush administration for its failure to face up to facts and act, and he 'said that he had been instructed by Sean O'Keefe, administrator of [NASA], not to discuss publicly the human contribution to global warming,' the Times writes ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics)

I Double Dare Ya	Ben White	08 Nov 1999	Muckraker
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank not known as a particular favorite of enviros, issued a debate challenge to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change last week. In a letter published as an ad in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, CEI Distinguished Fellow Jack Kemp, a one-time vice presidential candidate, congressman, football star, and all-around free-market guru, challenges the Pew Center to repudiate "alarmist ad ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Muckraker, placemaking, politics, sprawl (all these topics)

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