When people say action on climate will destroy the economy, that's kind
of an alarmist thing, without a lot of evidence.
Not exact matches
While the
alarmists provide the impression
of scientific integrity through peer - reviewed publications, the naysayers often lack the credentials
of alamarists but the important
thing is data, not credentials.
They're not
alarmists that blow little
things up into big ones, nor do they try to play down the importance
of things.
The IPCC predictions are serious enough without some
of the
alarmist tendencies to overstate
things about runaway greenhouse effect or oceans rising multiple feet.
Thanks to RealClimate for helping the rest
of us understand climate, but doesn't it make sense to be «
alarmist» when alarming
things keep happening «ahead
of schedule?»
I would actually cite
things like Near Earth Asteroid research and Supervolcano research as far stronger examples, but even in this case it is the journalism that is «
alarmist», far more so than any
of the scientists.
We need to not be
alarmist about the potential
of this alarm, but realize that it is something to be alarmed about if we let this «little» global warming
thing go too far... on top
of the other reasonably alarming
things that are already going on, such as hitting thermal limits for crops, etc..
Consensus
Alarmist Climate Theory and Models based on
Alarmist Theory is the only
thing that shows anything likely to go out
of bounds.
And few
of the
things that were revealed in the emails about
alarmist scientific practices and resistance to replication came as much as a surprise to those
of us who have been following climate issues for a while.
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.
This divergence in the
alarmist camp is now going to create a dilemma for all those liberal media outlets — from the BBC to the Guardian to the LA Times — which reported on NOAA's «death
of the pause» study as if it were a reliable and credible
thing.
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 conclusion, therefore, and all
things considered, there would appear to be little support for the climate -
alarmist claim that the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content will have severe negative impacts on the vast majority
of the world's sea
I then started looking at the issue and I made the mistake
of asking a question about error bars on an
alarmist blog and wow, I got immediately accused
of all kinds
of horrible
things including being in the pay
of big oil, a reaction that utterly shocked me.
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.
A bunch
of alarmist holdovers from the Obama era released a report insisting that climate change is still just about the worst
thing ever.
(And is that example, in the scheme
of things, not all that
alarmist or dumb?)
CFACT Truth Squad member Paul Driessen, in a piece entitled, «Triple Threat: UN, EPA and Congress,» warns that even without Kyoto - imposed CO2 reductions, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's proposed regulations
of CO2 and other emissions, and the Interior Department's use
of the Endangered Species Act to lock up millions
of acres
of forest and oil and natural gas reserves, can accomplish much the same
thing as the climate
alarmists attempted at Copenhagen, Cancun, Doha, and other climate conferences.
And I concluded that in JCH's opinion * none *
of the
things that I had listed above — all genuinely advanced as inevitable consequences
of a small rise in GAT by the
alarmists — were likely plausible outcomes.
(More cynically, even if we «do nothing» about the crisis de jour and nothing happens said
alarmists may have the gall to claim that by «raising awareness
of the problem» they still somehow managed to avert it - «and you can make the check out to...») Even worse,
alarmists project out that terrible
things will happen if we don't take IMMEDIATE (and highly expensive) action to avert the crisis by assuming the worst - case scenario.
Its pretty clear they want
alarmist posts and that the site is leftish in orientation (you just have to look at the issues you can check off that interest you — lots
of things like «societal entrepreneurship» but nothing on individual liberty or checks on government power).
Chris Hitchens was really at heart one us he was a humanist always forward looking optomistic loved the triump
of the human spirit (not a miserbalist control freaking climate
alarmist) But mainly he loved all
things Ameican (ecept the Clintons) He was this famous scruffy agnostic rather right centred carrassmatic interlectual a great writer and thinker (unlike his his great sibling interlectual rival his brother Peter without the scruffy or the agnostic) Peter and Chris were exactly like that other great brotherly partnership Niles and Frazer Underneath all that interlectual pomposity there was some mad vibe going on between them Imagine them smashing each other with sherry glasses over a discussion about Europe or something
It is the
Alarmists» equivalent
of this: A complete list
of things caused by Global Warming http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
It is, in my opinion, the one
thing that has kept this argument aloft for as long as it has been, because every time there is any kind
of change in climate the
alarmists say, «See?
One
of the
things that threw me down the dark path
of skepticism, aporiac1960, was the tendency
of alarmists to withhold pertinent information.
If you spend some time actually reading the blog entries on this site, you will find, as I did, that the site authors are concerned with (amongst other
things) exposing the use
of bad science by people looking to get press headlines and make
alarmist points.
And they — and the world goes mad in front
of environmental problems and
alarmist scares and
things like that.
In saying these
things I know that there is a good chance that the aggressive voices
of the denialists, along with our environment minister Malcolm Turnbull, will attack me for being
alarmist.
I saw nothing new in what dbstealey wrote in his several posts, but was glad to be reminded
of some
things and to read different ways
of expressing facts to one who is laboring under the delusion
of massive propaganda by the
alarmist side.
While the
alarmists provide the impression
of scientific integrity through peer - reviewed publications, the naysayers often lack the credentials
of alamarists but the important
thing is data, not credentials.
So the reasoned argument that AGW
alarmists proffer is that you pay attention to the big ugly face
of CO2 projected on the big screen and ignore the reality
of the Wizard standing there manipulating the appearance
of things from behind the curtain.
And this is one
of the
things I think climate sceptics and
alarmists unfortunately have in common.