Dr. Roy Spencer is a well -
known global warming skeptic — while accepting that CO2 will cause some warming, he believes that natural feedbacks will keep warming from being dangerous.
Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best -
known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.
Not exact matches
Global warming impacts the whole world,
no matter how much your
skeptic friend or relative thinks it's going to somehow bounce over their neighborhood.
First of all, people who
know the facts of
global warming realize that it is not an «ideological» issue, and don't care whether phony «
skeptics» call themselves «conservative» or «liberal».
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.
In reality, the vast majority of «IPCC
global warming»
skeptics are not climate change deniers, which honest, objective scientists and reporters
know.
Even though this series of blog posts concerns a prominent complaint filed in 2007 against the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great
Global Warming Swindle,» my objective is to show how a thorough analysis of any given accusation about
skeptic climate scientists being «paid industry money to lie» shatters the accusation to bits
no matter where the hammer strikes.
Pt 4, «The Wunsch / RealClimate Thing»: In this instance, we are asked to believe that a common citizen, Dave Rado, outraged over lies in «The Great
Global Warming Swindle», somehow also
knew one of the «seemingly
skeptic» scientists in the video had been hoodwinked to appear in it, and that the scientist this confirmed this via a direct email response regarding the inquiry Rado sent mere hours after watching the video.
In an essay «Why the
Global Warming Skeptics are Wrong» in the New York Review of Books of Feb. 22, 2012, Yale professor William D. Nordhaus attempts to counter the arguments of a group of 16 prominent scientists who published an essay, «
No Need to Panic about
Global Warming,» in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 27, 2012.
«We've been told this report is the gold standard,» said Canadian
global -
warming skeptic Donna Laframboise, who runs the NoConsensus.org site and who organized the online effort to examine the U.N.'s references in the report, commonly
known as the AR4.
No matter where you go with the «public is reluctant to accept catastrophic man - caused
global warming» talking point, there is the «industry - corrupted
skeptics» accusation — Gelbspan's accusation about leaked fossil fuel industry memos.
And I don't
know about you, «Justtellthetruth», but in my view characterizing Roger Pielke Jr. as a «hurricane expert» when Peike doesn't even hold a science degree while moreover also not mentioning the fact that Pielke is a prominent
global warming «
skeptic» does not constitute reliable and balanced reporting.
Because they're
skeptics, scientists
know to tread carefully when they come across stories that begin with the words «According to a new study...» But, a new study published last week about the impact of
global warming on precipitation patterns in the lower and middle latitudes has caught the eye of John Walsh and other researchers.
In Climate of Extremes: The
Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (co-authored with Robert Balling, another «skeptic») for example, he explained that there is an observable warming trend and that human activity shares some of the
Warming Science They Don't Want You to
Know (co-authored with Robert Balling, another «
skeptic») for example, he explained that there is an observable
warming trend and that human activity shares some of the
warming trend and that human activity shares some of the blame.
Back in the early spring of 2007, believers of catastrophic man - caused
global warming were
no doubt quite happy with Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» movie, Ross Gelbspan's books, prominent pro-
global warming blogs, mainstream media outlets, and others who gave essentially
no fair play to the presentation of detailed climate assessments from
skeptic climate scientists.
It's the first time a federal court has ever put climate science on trial, and
skeptics want to dispel the notion we
know enough about
global warming to hold companies liable for it.
Everybody «
knows» it is true and believes it — even
global warming skeptics.
Someone I
know who is a climate change
skeptic asked why I had no faith in the models that showed Fukushima would be OK but I did have faith in
global warming models.
He
knows that he is safe, because if the Fake
Skeptics say: Warmist don't have even 0,0000000000001 % of the data ESSENTIAL, for
knowing what is the temp; would have exposed that:» their lies about past phony
GLOBAL warmings have even less data».
AGW
skeptics are Holocaust deniers, children will never
know what snow is, rivers will run red and «oceans will begin to boil, Earth will be like Venus,
global warming is not a Left vs. right issue and, unlike our ancestors, we will be led to survival by high priests in green robes with computer models chanting anti-energy and anti-food slogans....
An elemental question begs to be corroborated in more than one way for sheer fairness: When the main pushers of the idea that the «reposition
global warming» phrase insinuate it is proof of an industry - led disinformation effort employing crooked
skeptic climate scientists — Naomi Oreskes saying it indicates a plot to supply «alternative facts,» Gelbspan saying it is a crime against humanity, and Al Gore implying it is a cynical oil company effort — are they truly oblivious to the necessity of corroborating whether or not that phrase and the memo subset it came from actually had widespread corrupting influence, or did they push this «evidence» with malice
knowing it was worthless?
Start dissecting their narratives, comparing them side - by - side while looking for physical evidence corroborating Ross Gelbspan's «industry corruption» accusation against
skeptic climate scientists, and a very different picture becomes clear: these people's narratives don't line up right, they collectively have no evidence backing up their accusation, and this prompts serious questions of whether core leaders of the
global warming movement are totally oblivious to this situation, or if they
knew their narratives had no merit from the start.
I've already detailed the way Desmog's founder James Hoggan essentially torpedoes his site's entire existence with the way he first admits he
knows nothing about climate science, but is certain that
skeptic climate scientists are liars, the latter of which he derives entirely from Ross Gelbspan, the «Pulitzer - winning investigator» who Al Gore says discovered the supposedly leaked Western Fuels Association «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) PR campaign's sinister strategy to «reposition
global warming as theory rather than fact.»
As each year progresses,
skeptics will say it's been cooling for n years now, and that we are
no longer experiencing
global warming.
He personally became aware of what other
global warming skeptics have
known for years and is embarrassed by his lack of awareness of how unjustified and nasty the attacks.
Skeptics say this disproves
global warming, but scientists
know better.
If you are an enviro - activist with no intellectual curiosity about the matter, and one of your prominent leaders tells you a leaked industry document's strategy statement to «reposition
global warming as theory rather than fact» proves
skeptic climate scientists were paid industry money to lie and misinform, then that's all you need to
know on the topic.
So how exactly is is that
skeptics somehow
knew all along that the BEST project would confirm the
global warming that had been established in the NASA, NOAA and HadCrut temperature reconstructions?
So, imply the «reposition
global warming» phrase is proof of
skeptic climate scientists» guilt while failing to explain precisely how, and it only ends up looking like slick propaganda
no matter which way you try to push it.
The
global warming community spends a lot of time with ad hominem attacks on
skeptics, usually accusing them of being in the pay of oil and power companies, but they all
know that their own funding in turn would dry up rapidly if they were to show any bit of skepticism in their own work.
What I obviously point out time and again is that there is no evidence proving
skeptic climate scientists
knew catastrophic man - caused
global warming was settled science but were corrupted by giant wads of illicit cash which caused them to spew industry - created / directed lies.
I'm astonished at the belated certainty from
skeptics that the «
knew all along» that the BEST results would confirm
global warming, and would be entirely consistent with the HadCrut, NASA, and NOAA temperature reconstructions.
peter stone — I'm astonished at the belated certainty from
skeptics that the «
knew all along» that the BEST results would confirm
global warming, and would be entirely consistent with the HadCrut, NASA, and NOAA temperature reconstructions
C.E.I. has become the best
known of these
global -
warming skeptics not just because Ebell is as quotable as he is.