Michael Mann is the creator of the iconic global - warming «hockey stick», the single most influential image in the campaign to sell Big Climate
alarmism at the turn of the century.
So despite a roller coaster ride all year and several very close calls, the US as a whole appears to have escaped the devastating impact from climate
alarmism at least for the next four years and possibly for eight years.
Whatever happens in the next 10 to 20 years, we are assured it will be a lot less than what the projections were 10 years ago when
alarmism at its peak.
Interesting that I so often read this kind of
alarmism at «skeptical» climate blogs, but never see an evidence - based approach to quantifying this supposed loss of freedom.
(That last note is primarily for those who only tend to see
alarmism at one end of the spectrum.)
Not exact matches
Chris Sutherland has talked up Western Australia's economic prospects, while challenging
alarmism about artificial intelligence and labour casualisation
at a Business News Success & Leadership breakfast this morning.
In an interesting paper that appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change, a group of scholars, including Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science
at Harvard, and Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist
at Princeton, note that so - called climate skeptics frequently accuse climate scientists of «
alarmism» and «overreacting to evidence of human impacts on the climate system.»
Representing TRCS, Doiron has presented
at University of Louisiana - Lafayette, where he promoted the idea that climate
alarmism is causing «irrational energy - related decisions.»
I started here by commenting that the
alarmism from media, activists, politicians and the like was making the job difficult to
at times impossible.
I find it interesting that
at that time the projections were for more warming than later iterations of the IPPC... but the
alarmism during the same period has increased.
At first it was unclear to me what Hans meant (in 29) by saying «I have seen some good work by you against climate
alarmism on this site».
My argument here is that if
alarmism works
at a broad level (climate research funding for global warming) for getting funds, it should also work
at the finer scale (within climate research).
If there were well - funded extremist
alarmism as much as there is well - funded extremist denial, perhaps the public would be as confused as now, but
at least the press would get the middle in the right place.
This wasn't the way the case looked back
at the beginning of the year when the climate
alarmism industry was gleefully predicting that this case would put National Review out of business.
Still, even though the costly climate -
alarmism schemes will not be entirely abolished, Abbott and his coalition appear determined to scrap the carbon tax
at least.
True, true, using the analogy of a greenhouse with respect to global warming
alarmism is not objective
at all.
The skeptics here
at WUWT (myself included) often hammer the dishonest alarmists over their willful ignoring of thermometer measurement precision in temperature records who then try and proclaim «highest - ever»
alarmism, when the differences are being proclaimed to hundredths of a degree.
Ebell, who leads the Center for Energy and Environment
at the right - leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute, has warned against climate «
alarmism» and called the agency's Clean Power Plan, issued in August 2015, «illegal.»
«I consider environmentalism and its currently strongest version — climate
alarmism — to be,
at the beginning of the 21st century, the most effective and, therefore, the most dangerous vehicle for advocating, drafting and implementing large scale government intervention and for an unprecedented suppression of human freedom,» he added.
(Betts has been very active
at Bishop Hill recently, engaging with sceptics, and promising to dissociate himself and his colleagues from
alarmism).
Although it's 5 months old now, «New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming
Alarmism»
at http://tinyurl.com/455s55h makes interesting reading.
-LSB-...] in atmospheric temps over the past 15 - 17 years, the latest bluff in climate
alarmism is that the «missing heat» is hiding
at the bottom of the oceans.
THEIR latest report couched in pseudo-science and
alarmism claims that Australia's $ 40 billion tourism industry is
at risk thanks to your sinful existence...
Since his 1988 testimony before Congress, Hansen has been
at the forefront of global warming
alarmism, spending much of his time making controversial statements — many of which later required further explanations, clarifications, or apologies.
Your overture comes
at a time when the science backing global warming
alarmism is crumbling, as amply demonstrated by the reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate change (NIPCC).
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) might have played this important role, but its leadership was quickly captured by political operatives, determined to support climate
alarmism, even when this was
at odds with the findings of honest scientists who wrote technical parts of IPCC reports.
In my opinion, the Forces
At Play is Entropy, Sophism, Pragmatism, and
Alarmism.
The craziest thing is,
at the heart of global warming
alarmism, is the Left's fear of humanity.
They seem to suffer from unquenchable and mystical faith in
alarmism and leave their everyday experience, common sense and basic scientific knowledge
at the door.
statements along with the scientific observations show that the IPCC is not off the mark (
at least towards
alarmism) due to any political biasing.
Denialism's
Alarmism's predetermined conclusions are, of course, utterly
at odds with scientific rationality... and this is why Climate Etc committed denialists alarmists are implacably hostile to all forms of science.
Why would you not add to the cost of what filing cabinets of global warming
alarmism pseudo-science, all of the dollars that are funneled to the Mideast and folks like Hugo and all of the foregone oppoutunities here
at home, not to mention the damage to the culture and the toll it has taken on scientific integrity?
That would be Karl Bohnak, chief meteorologist
at WLUC - TV on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, who calls global warming
alarmism his «pet peeve» and finally got so fed up with it that he wrote to his congressman, Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak.
The cosequences of large tempature increases are discussed rationaly and without
alarmism, but sceptics» contention that the predictions for large tempature increases can not be justified was not even hinted
at much less discussed.
To review:
At first sight, Pope's article appears to be a refreshing call for intellectual honesty from the consensus climate - science camp: «Hey, why don't we try telling the public the truth, for a change, instead of all this exaggerated
alarmism?»
Alexander Wendt
at www.achgut.com/ch, a policy - critical site run by leading German publicists, wrote how Hans - Joachim Schellnhuber recently boasted before journalists of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) how he got Pope Francis to swing over to climate
alarmism in His most recent encyclical «Laudato Si».
Last fall I alerted Spectator readers to the start - up nonprofit Alliance for Climate Education, which spreads the global warming
alarmism gospel to students one school assembly
at a time.
Someone like Myron Ebell, an analyst
at CEI, freely admits that, as an advocate in a politicized battle, he tries to make «the best case against
alarmism.»
Arthur Robinson and Roy Spencer to be recognized
at upcoming conference in Las Vegas for speaking out against global warming «
alarmism»
Despite the evidence of the public's growing dismissal of
alarmism, and the indisputable empirical evidence that the IPCC «climate experts» and their models have been abysmally wrong for a very long time, along comes a «scientist» like Myles Allen, confirming for all that scientific honesty is now
at a low point convincingly within the Twilight Zone.
Professor Dyson — born in Britain 87 years ago, a scholar
at Winchester but a naturalised American, now based
at Princeton university is not altogether convinced that the Indie's
alarmism has any factual basis whatsoever.
But what you even
at this late stage apparently still haven't worked out, is that it doesn't take a conspiracy for an organisation to pursue its own self interest — eg the state promoting
alarmism about climate, or tobacco companies promoting complacency about smoking.
Should McIntyre ever decide to seek employment with the NY Times or suckle
at the climate
alarmism teat, he will surely find it difficult
at best thanks to Mann's slander.
Compiled by Dr Ole Humlum, Professor of Physical Geography
at the University Centre in Svalbard (Norway), the new climate survey is in sharp contrast to the habitual
alarmism of other reports that are mainly based on computer modelling and climate predictions.
So his first reaction to the piece was a shot across the bows not
at Pielke but
at Nate Silver, denouncing his new venture as «yet another outlet for misinformation» - which is Mann's term for anything that dissents even mildly from the ayatollahs of
alarmism.
The «hiatus»
at 15 years is now nearly as long as the 18 years of warming that triggered global - warming
alarmism.
If it had been done, all the subsequent hollering and
alarmism would have been laughed
at.
In contrast, Shell and BP «paid lip service» to global warming
alarmism and reportedly funded Greenpeace to support a damaging embargo «
at the pumps» against Exxon in Europe.
The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally
at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate
alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).
Horizon's mawkish treatment of the idea of global dimming did nothing to inform the public; its intention was to provoke sensation — not understanding —
at the hight of climate change
alarmism.