The trick of these «communicators» is, of course, to avoid all clarity and definition, assume that
the claims of the alarmists and warmists are true just like the sky is blue... then congratulate skeptics on their skepticism.
He's a journalist so his writing style is much easier to follow than some of the other recent books on climate, but for me the clincher is the book is broken into two parts — the first half demolishes the catastrophe
claims of the alarmists, and the second looks at the real agenda, which few of the other climate books have gotten into.
And the open - minded skeptic must be prepared to question not only
the claims of alarmists, but those of other skeptics also.
After the EF is revoked, the dam of fakery will break and a herd of scientists may become happy to admit long harbored doubts about the extravagant
claims of alarmists.
Global warming «skeptics» — scientists and others who question whether the scientific debate is truly settled and ask for real data to support
the claims of the alarmists — are frequently attacked in the press, by politicians (including President Barack Obama), and on countless blogs and Web sites.
As a scientist, he says, he has seen no evidence to support the extravagant
claims of the alarmists that CO2 levels are impacting climate, and, in fact, the CO2 levels have historically been much higher, with no evidence of harm, but much evidence of benefit.
Not exact matches
Even more devastating is Connelly's demolition
of the
claim to moral high ground that the overpopulation
alarmists made.
Despite the «science is settled» and «consensus»
claims of the global - warming
alarmists, the fear
of catastrophic consequences from rising temperatures has been driven not so much by good science as by computer models and adroit publicity fed to a compliant media.
Claims from
alarmists that Francis was about to «rock» the Church, and repudiate the legacy
of his predecessors, now look dated and overhyped.
The FDA issued a ban on the use
of BPA in baby bottles in 2012, however,
alarmists are
claiming that other chemicals in plastic are just as harmful as BPA, but there is no scientific evidence to back this up.
Instead, Bourre lapses into unsubstantiated and
alarmist claims about the safety
of our food supply, saying: «It's extraordinarily good luck, something almost miraculous, that we're been able to survive the toxic substances present in our food as a result
of contamination, plant sprays, and medications used on farm animals,» he maintains.
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 will say this, there are a handful
of alarmists that
claim fruit is, essentially, the devil.
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.
Alarmists have
claimed for years that sea level, because
of anthropogenic warming, is rising, with ominous consequences.
Which is why I can say that your
claim that the carbon market ballooning to $ 10tr amounts to that much being taken out
of the economy (and I think I found your wonderful sources for that...) is nonsensical and intended to be
alarmist.
However keen you may be to demonstrate my arguments are misleading, I am afraid to report I am simply a scientist who feels stongly about protecting our natural environment, and who agrees global warming is a potential risk, but yet who remains unconvinced by the generally
alarmist claims that the end
of the world is nigh.
The only people saying that «
alarmists»
claim that the «science is settled» are right wing think tanks, like Cato, SEPP, and Friends
of Science, and industry funded politicians like Inhofe.
It is extremely hard to find genuine climate scientists who ARE
alarmist; wheras it is
of course easy to find «skeptics» who
claim that all AGW research is
alarmist, and that this is essential for funding.
In spite
of his rather mild (in comparison to many sceptics»
claims) position, Lomborg was the subject
of more vitriol from the
alarmist propaganda machine than perhaps any other climate - sceptic / denier / realist figure.
«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.
Not even the
alarmist peddlers
of the CO2 pseudoscience
claims that climate warming prior to ~ 1950 was primarily due to humans.
Dr. Berry makes it so easy to understand that all
of the atmospheric increase in CO2 is not due to humans like the climate
alarmists claim.
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 ``,.
But you can NOT support your
claims with empirical data, because just as I pointed out, and you have failed to refute, there isn't a single peer reviewed paper that empirically shows that anthropogenic CO2 was the primary cause
of the late 20th century warming like your climate
alarmist religion
claims.
The 47,000 wildfires last year may seem like a very large number — and it certainly gives global warming
alarmists like Brown plenty
of fodder for misleading global warming
claims — but the 47,000 wildfires was less than half the average number
of wildfires that occurred each year in the 1960s and 1970s.
I found a number
of discrepancies, which are written up in the paper, and do much (in my view) to support Professor Tol's
claim that the report's
alarmist tone was largely groundless.
The «puzzling» facts triggered the predictable
alarmist tactic
of attacking the data and
claiming the heat was hiding in the really deep ocean.
Even though President Obama and other global - warming
alarmists warn
of a looming climate apocalypse, they avoid giving a metric to prove their
claims.
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.
Claims made by sceptics that the effects
of the current ENO as it enters a negative episode, since last year, yielded temperature anomalies much lower than in recent years (in fact, very much average at near zero), have been waved away by
alarmists claiming that they are the result
of «natural variability».
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.
There is compelling evidence that the atmosphere's rising CO2 content - which
alarmists consider to be the chief culprit behind all
of their concerns about the future
of the biosphere (via the indirect threats they
claim it poses as a result
of CO2 - induced climate change)- is most likely the primary cause
of the observed greening trends.
And it casts into strong relief the bad faith
of the
alarmists who
claim that this melting is a certain «indicator»
of AGW.
In other words, «Forecast the Facts» was originally conceived as a front group controlled by far - left advocacy groups to hide behind while attacking meteorologists, who surveys show tend to be very skeptical
of the
claims of global warming
alarmists.
In the ensuing report we present a meta - analysis
of the peer - reviewed scientific literature, examining how the productivities
of Earth's plants have responded to the 20th and now 21st century rise in global temperature and atmospheric CO2, a rise that climate
alarmists claim is unprecedented over thousands
of years (temperature) to millions
of years (CO2 concentration).
The Data Clearly Reveals Modern Temp Changes To Be Normal — «Unfortunately for all
alarmists, the real data reveals the bogosity
of their
claims»
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.
James Taylor
of the Heartland Institute penned a Forbes article where he
claimed that Christy's findings «refute frequent assertions by global warming
alarmists that global warming is adversely affecting Sierra Nevada snowfall and snowpack.»
It complained about «
alarmists» who (the letter
claimed) refuse to acknowledge benefits
of climate change.
Here climate
alarmists claim that human - caused emissions
of CO2 results in this, but the best available science says that there is not.
As a result, Brulle insisted, the public is uncertain about the
alarmist claim that man - made carbon dioxide emissions are causing severe climate change, and the government in turn has failed to enact the kind
of restrictions on emissions Brulle favors.
where I chastised a recent
alarmist report making
claims the rainforests
of the world are disappearing, which will increase CO2.
Should scientific skeptics
of AGW be required prove the negative
of all
of the
claims of global warming
alarmists?
When the world's real scientists, engineers and mathematicians focused their attention on the AGW
alarmists arguments, they discovered dodgy math, unfounded and hyped
claims, deleted data that disproves their theories, a biased and manipulated peer review process and a lot
of propaganda thrown on top.
Alarmists Praise Climate Depot's Morano: «His special ability is to argue super-fast, spewing out questionable
claims, a kind
of howitzer
of climate «skepticism.»
Earlier last year, following an article reviewing 6 (also
alarmist) books on the environment including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Nicholas Stern's report, and George Monbiot's Heat, we discovered that, inconveniently, May had taken a few liberties with the facts himself, citing a single study, referenced in the Stern Report to make the
claim that» 15 — 40 per cent
of species «were vulnerable to extinction at just 2 degrees
of warming, and that oil companies were responsible for a conspiracy to spread misinformation, and prevent action on climate change.
After the dismal failure
of their Kyoto Treaty to achieve this end, the
alarmists have tried a second approach called the Paris accord or «treaty,» and flouted the US Constitution by
claiming that the «treaty» is not really a treaty.
If we're going to use agencies
of the federal government to investigate and even prosecute «climate deniers», for making «false and misleading
claims» then let's damn well do the same for «climate
alarmists», who do the same thing all the time.
In fact, shortly before warmists began hyping NASA's dubious
claims about the month
of August, one
of Obama's own senior officials wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal debunking myriad myths held dear by
alarmists.