For many years now, I — and many sceptics like me — have been accused
by climate alarmists of being «in the pay of Big Oil».
Not exact matches
Ebell has fought against
climate policies for years, and he often suggests that
climate scientists are working to advance their careers
by promoting
alarmist research that exaggerates the pace
of climbing temperatures.
Alarmists have drawn some support for increased claims
of tropical storminess from a casual claim
by Sir John Houghton
of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) that a warmer world would have more evaporation, with latent heat providing more energy for disturbances.
I see another
alarmist post from The
Climate Action Tracker claims that temperatures are going to rise
by 3C above pre-industrial levels
by 2100AD, a ludicrous claim that requires.35 C / decade rate
of increase.
Anyone interested in the present and recent RealClimate postings will likely want to visit the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com today, where there's a link to an op - ed
by MIT's Richard Lindzen that's headlined this way: «FREE INQUIRY:
Climate of Fear: Global - warming
alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence.»
It is notable that while the
climate alarmist movement is funded
by billions
of public funds and the skeptic side is funded
by a few million at best and the
alarmists are losing badly, the explanation is found in credibility.
Despite his evident lack
of skill to evaluate the multiple lines
of evidence accumulated
by 2 centuries
of climate science, DDS has made it clear he believes the lopsided consensus
of working
climate scientists is «
alarmist».
Amid the constant
alarmist bickering over the role
of CO2 in our planet's continued shifting
of climate whether caused or accelerated
by human activity and similar hair splitting, the true threats to our status - quo go un-heralded as the siren
of alarm numbs our sensibilities.
He withdrew any kind
of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use
of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on global warming» «Led
by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary
of the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change, an attempt was made,
by what can only be described as
alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes
of the global warming debate.
According to the latest panic attack from
climate alarmists, the production
of four major crops — maize, wheat, rice and soybeans — will fall
by 23 percent
by the 2050s thanks to global warming.
Note that the first few
of the links below are to blog posts written
by concerned
climate scientists, whom the
climate change denialists call «
alarmists.»
«The GHG «theory» based on CO2 is a thermodynamic impossibility» Yes, the
climate alarmists peddle their pseudoscience claiming that the ghe works
by transferring heat / thermal energy from the cold atmosphere to the warmer surface
of the earth, more heat / thermal energy than is transferred
by the Sun.
Political parties, scientific societies, whole sectors
of the publicly funded MSM, all have being corrupted and doing their utmost to destroy freedom
of expression and opinion
by censoring when it clashes with their leader's and the
climate alarmist adherents dogma and catastrophe fixated beliefs.
So, we can choose to believe a commenter on a political blog claiming people who understand that there is a broad, clear understanding
of the primary driver
of the observations are «
alarmists», «
climate cult ``, «duped doomsday
climate cultist», «real deniers,
of the science and empirical data»,» peddlers
of CatastrophicAGW -
by - CO2 ``,.
This
of course includes the uncertainty, which seems neglected
by most
climate alarmists, who prefer to jack up both the level
of certainty and the emotional content to gain the high impact publication and notoriety.
From the angry tone
of your comment, I suspect that you accept the
climate alarmists» propaganda that ocean warming is caused
by «excess heat from ghgs».
It was a fringe theory throughout most
of its history and the politically driven CatastrophicAGW -
by - CO2
climate alarmism groupthink only became popular since the 1970s global cooling scare died out and the leftist globalists began to push their
alarmist pseudoscience.
Isn't it interesting to see how the «weather» versus «
climate» issue can be conveniently rolled out
by the
Alarmists whenever it suits their view
of the world.
However, the several month long 1998 spike was seized on
by alarmists as proof the
climate was warming out
of control.
In Spain, every renewable energy job the government's
climate alarmist policies created was offset
by two jobs lost in other sectors
of the economy that were punished
by soaring electricity prices.
The organization, which argues that the consequences
of climate change have been exaggerated
by alarmists, is also defending itself in a defamation lawsuit brought
by a prominent
climate scientist.
The important question to ask, I argue, is how such an intolerant culture was allowed to develop in powerful political and academic institutions, and why the
alarmist case was preferred
by policymakers, who continue to make use
of the binary view
of the
climate debate.
Climate alarmists conveniently overlook evidence during the Holocene optimum where there were extended periods
of temperatures exceeding the averages
by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above present temperatures.
Contrary to Stewart's claim that the world was united
by scientific evidence in the early 1990s, even
by 1995, there was still only the «suggestion», on the «balance
of evidence», that there had been a «discernible human influence on global
climate» — and that's in the Summary for Policymakers document, which has consistently been far more
alarmist than the more technical parts
of the report.
Here is one example
of a science - based response to the Rosie O'Donnell (a famous
climate alarmist,
by the way) and her claim that burning jet fuel can't melt steel so therefore the WTC had to have been destroyed
by demolition charges set
by Dick Cheney, or something like that.
Icy Silence from
Climate Alarmists «Global land temperatures have plummeted
by one degree Celsius since the middle
of this year — the biggest and steepest fall on record.»
By the way, does anyone out there still believe that the Climate Commission isn't just a mouthpiece for trumpeting Labor government policy, staffed as it is by a team of alarmists with not one single person in the clique to challenge the orthodoxy or put a contrary vie
By the way, does anyone out there still believe that the
Climate Commission isn't just a mouthpiece for trumpeting Labor government policy, staffed as it is
by a team of alarmists with not one single person in the clique to challenge the orthodoxy or put a contrary vie
by a team
of alarmists with not one single person in the clique to challenge the orthodoxy or put a contrary view?
The Nongovernmental International Panel on
Climate Change has been vigorously attacked
by some environmentalists and global warming
alarmists who view it as a threat to their claim
of a «consensus» in favor
of their extreme views.
The Austrian meteorologist Dominik Jung found the same winter cooling throughout the Alps, which should comfort the managers
of the various sky resorts who have been continuously told
by the
climate alarmists that sky resorts have no future due to
climate warming.
In the case
of climate change, people are doubting that the
alarmist position is supported
by the science, and tending to believe that the experts are exaggerating the risk.
For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that
climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that the
climate change we observed can be explained
by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue
of global warming... that and the fact that global warming
alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most
of the principles upon which the country was founded.
The
climate alarmists have immediately tried to blame carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted
by humans,
of course.
What the
climate alarmists are basically arguing is that decisions on energy use and production should be determined
by government on the basis
of their preferences.
A considerable portion
of the research has been done
by volunteers rather than the few and much maligned (
by climate alarmists) paid professionals, but it is free for the asking, so why not?
As heat waves move across the U.S. from the northeast to the southwest and in much
of western Europe,
climate alarmists are responding predictably
by blaming hot temperatures not on true meteorological causes but on the nebulous bogeyman
of «
climate change.»
The great risk is that although the current approach to
climate taken
by the Trump EPA may slow the
alarmist agenda as long as it remains in office, no real changes will be made to the EF, and future administrations may simply resume and even the Obama Administration's
alarmist agenda at the expense
of the future
of US economic well being.
The post was moved
by comments around this particularly
alarmist headline, which epitomised the Independent's coverage
of the
climate story.
From New Zealand comes another example
of climate alarmists «adjusting» temperatures upward to claim global warming that isn't, in fact, occurring, as shown
by Joanne Nova «s excellent blog.
Alarmists accept far more science, it's skeptics
by and large who seek to shutdown funding for
climate science and deny things like the surface records and the use
of climate models.
As Earth descends into an 80 - year, sun - spotless Dalton or Maunder Minimum reinforced
by a confluence
of deep - ocean magmatism with long - term cyclical reversals,
climate - change
alarmists will have much to answer for.
Richard Betts tries to say Lewandowsky's wrong but instead
of easily winning his argument
by posting 100s
of links to different pre-2013
climate alarmist papers about the «pause» he only links 1.
«The Idea
of Renewable Energy Is Reported to Have Originated with the Nazis; at Least They Were Wise Enough to Reject It The Real Potential
Climate Problem Is Caused
by the
Climate Alarmists Themselves»
Climate alarmists have long insisted that global temperatures are primarily determined
by human - caused emissions
of CO2 and that natural forces play little or no role.
As we learn further down this is based on a yet another study
by parti - pris
alarmists ramping up the
climate change scare narrative using dodgy computer modeled projections
of what might happen if all their parameters are correct (which they aren't).
Their lack
of understanding
of the other essential skills has been demonstrated repeatedly
by the
alarmists (including the advocacy
climate scientists) who post on Climat
climate scientists) who post on
ClimateClimate Etc..
Despite these trivial sea level rise over the past century and a bit, moonbat councils on the east coast
of Australia are still tying up waterfront properties in miles
of green tape, justified
by predictions
of massive sea level rises
by climate alarmists, and property values have plummeted as a result:
Planet Earth's record, or the propaganda emitted
by the handful
of climate alarmists here?
Not all criticism
of the «
alarmist»
climate change narrative is misinformation funded
by the fossil fuel lobby.
As a recent study from the University
of Bristol documented,
climate scientists have been so distracted and intimidated
by the relentless campaign against them that they tend to avoid any statements that might get them labeled «
alarmists,» retreating into a world
of charts and data.
Republican Lamar Smith, chairman
of the committee, opened the hearing
by saying «
alarmist predictions amount to nothing more than wild guesses» and that «much
of climate science today seems to be based more on exaggerations, personal agendas and questionable predictions than on the scientific methods.»