He will be sorely missed
by global warming skeptics, as he made our life so much easier by just being himself.
The MWP is frequently cited
by global warming skeptics as evidence that the consequences of global warming are not all negative, especially as they relate to agricultural production.
(New Scientist) Archer has perfectly pitched answers to the most basic questions about global warming while providing a sound basis for understanding the complex issues frequently misrepresented
by global warming skeptics.
The ocean oscillations cited in these stories have been raised
by the global warming skeptics for the last ten years to explain what we saw between the mid» 70's and 2000 was nothing more than a natural cycle.
Not exact matches
He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities of federal climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims
by Climate Change
skeptics that
global warming was going through a «hiatus».
The views of a visiting pope, respected
by Catholics and many non-Catholics alike as a moral and spiritual leader of great prominence, will not make persons now unconcerned about
global warming suddenly begin to grow concerned, nor even make
skeptics of religious freedom begin to take its claims more seriously.
► In other climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired
by [
global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.
Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some
skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that
global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely
by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
U.S. geoscientists are accustomed to being used as a punching bag
by climate change
skeptics in Congress, who challenge the science of
global warming.
September 13, 2006, No Sunshine for
Global Warming Skeptics,
by JR Minkel.
The
warming pause has been «exploited
by climate
skeptics to refute
global warming,» the paper states.
This aspect of their work is rarely if ever mentioned
by the authors themselves, and still less in citations of the work in
skeptics» tracts such as that distributed with the «
Global Warming Petition Project.»
In 1998, Tony Lupo boasted that climate
skeptics outnumbered the consensus view that
global warming is happening and caused
by people, proclaiming, «there is no scientific consensus whether
global warming is a fact and is occurring.»
[Response: Indeed — I think one of the strongest indications that the science behind anthropogenic
global warming is very solid
by now, is the lack of quality and intellectual honesty of the counter-arguments and the lack of credibility of the
skeptics personnel.
The results lead the authors to conclude that «this experimental data should effectively end the argument
by skeptics that no experimental evidence exists for the connection between greenhouse gas increases in the atmosphere and
global warming.»
Now, there's nothing wrong with making mistakes when pursuing an innovative observational method, but Spencer and Christy sat
by for most of a decade allowing — indeed encouraging — the use of their data set as an icon for
global warming skeptics.
More broadly scoped, a variety of factors are present, some of which are widely used
by skeptics of
global warming, and others which are used
by proponents.
Government in the U.K. and other places outside of the United States seem to have supported the consensus IPCC findings on
global warming, which has kept their
skeptics at bay in their countries for the most part (except perhaps in Australia which is heavily influenced
by interests in the U.S.).
A
skeptic of
global warming recently pointed me toward an article
by Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Define democracy however you like; I find your refusal to acknowledge the harm done
by the fundamental dishonesty of the
global warming skeptics to be not only puzzling, but deeply troubling.
His indifference to the harm done to the public mind
by the AGW deniers is perhaps why so many
skeptics find comfort in Pielke's message, and why so many casual observers mistake him for a
global warming skeptic.
Critics note that his work has been frequently cited
by «
global warming skeptics,» [3] Dr. Pielke and his allies have praised his independence and called his critics «climate McCarthyists.»
This is contributing to all of us going down the tubes together as a result of
global warming skeptics and deniers who are playing around with the well known casino rule of «gambler's ruin»
by always betting against the house.
Skeptics have long cited Doran's research to show that
global warming is a flawed theory motivated
by alarmist scientists more interested in scaring up huge research grants than in pursuing the evidence with honesty and integrity.
One is that, for some people, the
skeptics» grasping at any story that might support their climate change denial strategies creates needless confusion for people who are unsettled, and even frightened
by the threats posed
by global warming.
In fact, I was
by default not doubting the
global warming classic interpretation till I started reading multiple sources on the net, and as my self - confession as a recent
skeptic shows, the argument from the denialist camp are not only convincing to petrol gulping rednecks, but also to a very scientifically minded, atheist european (although, I must admit, I like motor sports; — RRB --RRB-.
Partisanship
by NOAA administrators on the climate change - hurricane debate followed the partisanship
by NOAA National Weather Service on climate change -
skeptic debate
by 12 years which started just after the Gore book on
global warming book came out.
This aspect of their work is rarely if ever mentioned
by the authors themselves, and still less in citations of the work in
skeptics» tracts such as that distributed with the «
Global Warming Petition Project.»
Obama's formulation in the State of the Union speech — the notion that even
skeptics should support a climate bill because it was what the economy needed — had been developed
by an unlikely source: Frank Luntz, one of the dark princes of Republican messaging, who a decade before had written a founding document of GOP
global warming denial.
Recently, a union was SLAPPed
by a corporation that alleged that the union's organizing activitiesThe wording of the subpoena makes clear that Virgin Islands» attorney general Claude Walker will be utilizing the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act to silence
global warming skeptics and crush political opponents.
The letter portends to offer facts about «climate change deniers, but readers can't even get further than the first paragraph without running into an unsupportable talking point about
skeptic climate scientists saying
global warming «isn't happening / happening, but for natural reasons / happening and caused
by humans, but it's not so bad.»
«this experimental data should effectively end the argument
by skeptics that no experimental evidence exists for the connection between greenhouse gas increases in the atmosphere and
global warming.».
A meteorologist
by training, Ellsaesser is a retired «guest scientist» at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a widely - quoted
global warming skeptic.
The results lead the authors to conclude that * *** «this experimental data should effectively end the argument
by skeptics that no experimental evidence exists for the connection between greenhouse gas increases in the atmosphere and Climate Changes caused
by global warming.».
Neither Gelbspan nor anyone repeating his accusation ever proved the money trail led to an industry directive to lie about
global warming science; none of them have proved
skeptic climate scientists were instructed to mimic tobacco industry tactics; journalists have demonstrably not offered overall fair balance in to
skeptic climate scientists; the «wedge» being driven is one arguably pounded
by enviro - activists who push the «
skeptics don't deserve fair media balance» talking point; and Gelbspan was not the first one to bring up this talking point.
And that reality has been demonstrated over and over again, most recently in the work of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, led
by Dr. Richard Muller, who began his comprehensive assessment as an avowed climate
skeptic and ended it convinced
by the clear evidence that
global warming is happening and is caused
by human activity.This conclusion is emphatically shared
by the best and brightest of the
global scientific community, including our own National Academy of Sciences.
There's no significant change in the understanding of climate change or
global warming which continue to be valid expressions (while CAGW is just a concept invented
by skeptics to use as they like and in a way that does not reflect main stream views).
In my prior piece about the spread of Ross Gelbspan's accusation that
skeptic climate scientists are paid
by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition
global warming as theory rather than fact ``, I barely skimmed the surface of the sheer number of repetitions of it.
Warmists project their climate change denial very nicely and obviously on
skeptics,
by calling them climate change (or
global warming) deniers.
«These papers should lay to rest once and for all the claims
by John Christy and other
global warming skeptics that a disagreement between tropospheric and surface temperature trends means that there are problems with surface temperature records or with climate models,» said Alan Robock, a meteorologist at Rutgers University.
«Conversation with
global warming skeptic Anthony Watts,» YouTube video uploaded
by user «PBS NEwsHour,» September 17, 2012.
It has been often said
by climate
skeptics that the modern
warming peaked in 1998 and we are entering a period of decades of
global cooling.
So the real bombshell here from my perspective is that the promotion of Nic Lewis's work
by skeptics represents a shift in
skeptics attitudes towards that of accepting CO2 and man are the prime control knob for recent and ongoing
global warming.
His comment was singled out
by skeptics, who claimed scientists were covering up the truth about
global warming.
That doesn't seem like it will solve this mainly because the «
skeptics» left now are too self - invested and self - identifying with their view to be swayed
by anything including a resumption of
global warming and continued melting.
a # 3: the ones that accepted the phony
global warming — they are NOT
Skeptics, BUT Warmist in - bedded into the
skeptic's camp; recognized
by their botanical name:» the Fake
Skeptics»
except all of course all those bets on
global warming, taken up
by foolhardy
skeptics, where the orthodoxy has cleaned up.
Your fellow
skeptics could help strengthen the case for
global warming by agreeing with you.
VP: Your fellow
skeptics could help strengthen the case for
global warming by agreeing with you.
Back in 2008 -» 09, I was perplexed that efforts to mitigate runaway
global warming were occurring despite detailed opposition offered
by skeptic climate scientists.