You could hardly ask for a better example of psychological projection than believers of man -
caused global warming claiming their critics spread misinformation.
Universities, research institutes, government grants, etc. all have a financial stake in the human -
caused global warming claim.
Not exact matches
The
claim that increasing CO2 is
causing catastrophic
global warming is being falsified by these facts:
anyone who
claims that humans
cause global warming has made an extraordinary
claim.
Munichre
claims that this year's floods, Europe's worst ever, might have been
caused by
global warming.
The controversy around this issue has led scientists across Europe to dig deeper into the
claim that solar activity could be a major
cause of
global warming.
Claims that the Sun has
caused as much as 70 % of the recent
global warming... presents fundamental puzzles.
Cuccinelli cites the Kremlin organ RIA Novosti to «prove» that western climate scientists are LYING about
global warming, but during the 2010 forest fires, Andrei Areshev, a lunatic attached to a Russian Foreign Ministry drunk tank, even
claimed right in this same RIA Novosti that those sneaky U.S. climate scientists were
CAUSING global warming by beaming secret climate weapons at Russia!
A revealing look at RC's «real science:» When SecularAnimist posts a dubious
claim (# 87) about the
cause and effects of
global warming, it remains here.
There is very little science behind the
claim that a doubling of CO2 will
cause one degree C. of
warming — which even if true, adds up to a mere one degree C. of
global warming in about 200 years, assuming CO2 levels increase 2 ppm per year, and the hypothesis is correct.
We will at some point post something on the climate / hurricane arguments, but a basic fact is that there is a huge difference between
claiming that
global warming trends will tend, statistically, to lead to more / larger hurricanes, and attributing specific events in specific years to such
causes.
Since a commenter mentioned the medieval vineyards in England, I've been engaged on a quixotic quest to discover the truth about the oft - cited, but seldom thought through,
claim that the existence of said vineyards a thousand years ago implies that a «Medieval
Warm Period «was obviously
warmer than the current climate (and by implication that human -
caused global warming is not occuring).
The point I am trying to make is «when it is
claimed that DO events represent a much larger and more rapid climate change than anthropogenic
global warming,» perhaps DO events do
cause rapid regional climate change larger and more rapid than anthropogenic
global warming generally.
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-- it's interesting for the pictures showing how different roof and wall paints / colors collect heat, though it's a bit odd in
claiming this is the
cause of
global warming.
Re # 158 (Sashka): I read the document you linked to at http://www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=236 and found out that the $ 5T number you
claimed as the cost of Kyoto compliance is not that at all, but is actually Bjorn Lomborg's quote of Nordhaus» figure for how much it would cost to pay for
global warming -
caused damage in the developing world over the course of the current century if nothing were done to impede the
warming.
A recent slowdown in
global warming has led some skeptics to renew their
claims that industrial carbon emissions are not
causing a century - long rise in Earth's surface temperatures.
Once again we see the «jump - on - the - bandwagon» «scientists»
claiming that
global warming is man -
caused and can be mitigated.
No wonder he
claims that humans are
causing global warming.
The 2007 IPCC Report
claimed with over 90 % certainty that human produced CO2 is almost the sole
cause of
global warming.
However,
claiming that CO2 has only
caused 35 % of
global warming is a gross misinterpretation and misunderstanding of the paper.
This particular category doesn't state how much
global warming humans are
causing, and hence climate contrarians
claim that because they admit humans are
causing some
global warming, they should be included in the 97 percent.
It
claimed that the process resulting in the IPCC report was flawed, and that if
Global Warming really was human -
caused that energy would be better spent trying to mitigate the damage it would do, as opposed to trying to stop it.
In particular, the authors find fault with IPCC's conclusions relating to human activities being the primary
cause of recent
global warming,
claiming, contrary to significant evidence that they tend to ignore, that the comparatively small influences of natural changes in solar radiation are dominating the influences of the much larger effects of changes in the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations on the
global energy balance.
Nobody is making a
claim that ENSO
causes global warming.
Why don't you be honest and admit that you people welcome weather events that you can
claim are climate catastrophes
caused by
global warming.
In the past few weeks there have been many newspaper and magazine articles that
claim the weather in the month of December was absolute proof that climate change (or
global warming / disruption) was already in effect and
causing most of the (bad) weather that happened in the month of December.
First of all, my comment on the intelligence of the British public related to their ability to hear a
claim such as
global warming could
cause more severe winters and understand that just because it sounds counter-intuitive it shouldn't necessarily be dismissed out of hand.
A paper by John Cook and colleagues published in May 2013
claimed that of the 4,000 peer - reviewed papers they surveyed expressing a position on anthropogenic
global warming, «97.1 % endorsed the consensus position that humans are
causing global warming».
The paper itself doesn't even make that
claim... it only states: «Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1 % endorsed the consensus position that humans are
causing global warming.»
Abstracts that were rated Level 2 («explicit endorsement without quantification») or Level 3 («implicit endorsement») can not generally be
claimed to support the position that humans
caused «most»
global warming (> 50 %) if they only endorse the weaker position that humans are a
cause of
warming (> 0 %).
However, I have not asserted that there is evidence against there having been any
warming: YOU ARE CLAIMING THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THE ABSENCE OF THE «HOT SPOT» IS EVIDENCE THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO GLOBAL WARMING FROM ANY
warming: YOU ARE
CLAIMING THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THE ABSENCE OF THE «HOT SPOT» IS EVIDENCE THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO
GLOBAL WARMING FROM ANY
WARMING FROM ANY
CAUSE.
(While someone
claimed that «all the models» support
global warming caused by humans, they should recall that other people
claim that the models were made to provide that conclusion.
A major peer - reviewed paper by four senior researchers has exposed grave errors in an earlier paper in a new and unknown journal that had
claimed a 97.1 % scientific consensus that Man had
caused at least half the 0.7 Cº
global warming since 1950.
Claims of human
caused global warming began with a deception and the pattern continues.
They all
claim with utter certainty that there is no possibility of serious risk from human -
caused global warming.
Nova is an Australian climate denialist and author of «The Skeptic's Handbook,» a crash course in false science
claiming global warming isn't happening and isn't human -
caused.
His June 1988 appearance before a US Senate Committee at which he
claimed he was certain that human CO2 was
causing global warming, was an orchestrated event.
Claiming that human CO2
causes global warming now means that only 0.117 % of Earth's greenhouse gases drive the other 99.883 % of Earth's greenhouse gases, which drive the other 99 % of Earth's entire atmosphere.
The specific
claim that HUMAN - MADE CO2
causes global warming, then, means that 0.0017 % of Earth's atmosphere controls the other 99.9983 % of Earth's atmosphere.
Even more strange are
claims that the record snow is
caused by man - made
global warming.
In which case, a story reporting James Hansen's
claim that
global warming will «result in a rise in sea level measured in metres within a century» will be put in the AGW dominant / exclusive categories, while a story along the lines of «
global warming unlikely to
cause significant problems to New York City in the near future» will find itself in one of the sceptic categories — even though the latter is closer than the former to the IPCC position.
In fact, it is precisely because «the discussion about the
causes of
global warming was to a very great extent settled by the date of broadcast», meaning that climate change was no longer a matter of political controversy, that a programme
claiming it is all a pack of lies could slip past the partiality rules.
To
claim CO2
causes global warming is absurd, mixing
cause and effect to accomplish some predestined goal that has nothing to do with reality.
«The
global warming doomsday writers
claim the ice sheets are melting catastrophically, and will
cause a sudden rise in sea level of many metres.
Consider the potential failure facing Naomi Oreskes»
claims about a 100 % scientific consensus on man -
caused global warming, if her «attackers» — namely Dr Singer — was able to debunk her
claim.
I noted (as I have previously in this blog) the large number of states that are either divided on or hostile about
claims of human -
caused global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds of collective activity focused on counteracting the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.
There is an initial simple
claim, such as «humans are
causing potentially dangerous
global warming.»
Declarations that skeptic climate scientists knowingly lie about the certainty of man -
caused global warming as paid shills of the fossil fuel industry appear devastating...... but dig deep into the details, and all those
claims look more like a «Keystone Kops - style» farce.
In response to
claims made by Bob Carter that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had not uncovered evidence that
global warming was
caused by human activity, a former CSIRO climate scientist stated that Bob Carter was not a credible source on climate change and that «if he [Carter] has any evidence that [
global warming over the past 100 years] is a natural variability he should publish through the peer review process.»