The scientists at RealClimate (lead defenders
of the climate orthodoxy) are not unaware that the hot spot is not appearing.
Moreover, if zombie arguments are what bothers him, what about those deployed by the living dead
of the climate orthodoxy?
It's funny how many defenders
of the climate orthodoxy are telling us how «scienceä should work and be conducted.
«Scientists don't need to be paid to oppose the ideas
of climate orthodoxy, because those ideas are just so damn bad.»
«Scientists don't need to be paid to oppose the ideas
of climate orthodoxy, because those ideas are just so damn bad,» Essex writes.
And probably won't have ever if we tried to implement the mitigation policies that are being advocated and have been advocated for the past 20 + years in the UN climate conferences, the IPCC, and by most
of the climate orthodoxy.
Many critics
of climate orthodoxy argue that Environmentalism is the continuation of various left - wing ideologies.
Joking about genocidal tendencies that are of your own imagining is not only not funny, it's typical of where defenders
of the climate orthodoxy are willing to go in their smearing of their enemies.
Not exact matches
And there have been some celebrated deserters from the dominant
orthodoxy, like Bjorn Lomborg who favors adaptation over an attempt to change the
climate, and most recently James Lovelock, he
of the «Gaia» hypothesis, who recanted his past
climate pessimism rather dramatically.
There are many reasons for this, including the historical failure
of any
of the various theories to compel enduring universal consent, a general sense that we blaspheme against the sheer mystery
of God by witnessing to the glory
of God's actions with a cocksure
orthodoxy, and a philosophic
climate characterized by a profound skepticism about all metaphysical or theological attempts to probe rationally the truth
of things.
Yet in other respects — notably our ecclesiastical diversity, the freedom
of the Church from state control, and the predominance
of liberalism and fundamentalism rather than the new
orthodoxy as the prevailing theological
climate — our situation is different, and it will sharpen the discussion to keep it within such bounds.
The effort is the brainchild
of two retirees frustrated by what they see as the
orthodoxy of «settled science» on
climate change.
«Do such considerations affect the current
orthodoxy regarding the role
of CO2 in establishing
climate characteristics?»
Question: Do such considerations affect the current
orthodoxy regarding the role
of CO2 in establishing
climate characteristics?
But I've been shocked to learn
of the young scientists who are sick
of living under the suffocating
orthodoxy the
climate mullahs enforce.
But there remains a vocal defense
of the old
orthodoxy —
climate variation is normal and human activity can play no role.
Nevertheless, many Americans who self - identify as religious and social conservatives, especially those in the subset
of white evangelical Protestants (a powerful voting bloc in Republican politics), continue to cling stubbornly to the
orthodoxy of climate denial.
The e-mails were written by the «A-team» — members
of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change — and raise questions if the work of other respected scientists may have been disregarded or hampered by a climate change orthodoxy (or «climate oligarchy») that does not value, indeed may discourage, informed debate and d
Climate Change — and raise questions if the work
of other respected scientists may have been disregarded or hampered by a
climate change orthodoxy (or «climate oligarchy») that does not value, indeed may discourage, informed debate and d
climate change
orthodoxy (or «
climate oligarchy») that does not value, indeed may discourage, informed debate and d
climate oligarchy») that does not value, indeed may discourage, informed debate and dissent.
This violation
of the sacrosanct
climate - agenda physics has become a real hiatus head - scratcher for scientists and journalists making a living off the govt - approved
orthodoxy.
«for me to raise even the driest, most analytical criticisms or questions regarding the frame
of reference
of the «
climate science»
orthodoxy is to commit a revolutionary act.»
The contribution
of a very eminent
climate scientist was edited to make him seem like an inconsistent crank, while maverick outsiders were presented as the voices
of scientific
orthodoxy.
Despite the vulnerability
of many
of his own properties to sea level rise, on the campaign trail President - elect Donald Trump stuck with Republican
orthodoxy in questioning human - driven
climate change, and criticizing the steps the Obama administration has taken to combat it.
By the way, does anyone out there still believe that the
Climate Commission isn't just a mouthpiece for trumpeting Labor government policy, staffed as it is by a team
of alarmists with not one single person in the clique to challenge the
orthodoxy or put a contrary view?
Neither CBS nor NBC were as disrespectful during their inclusion
of skeptical scientists, but both networks undermined guests who challenged
climate change
orthodoxy.
Or that there has been no warming for a decade, UN IPCC «science» is crumbling at its foundation, and increasing numbers
of climate experts are publicly dissenting from IPCC
orthodoxy.
Typically, cold weather such as the UK is experiencing — an inch or so
of snow that brings the country to a grinding halt — is used as the background to stories which challenge
climate change
orthodoxy.
Climate change
orthodoxy allowed Lewandowsky's work to go unchallenged by the checks and balances we might expect to catch out, or at least, criticise, such bare - faced framing
of the debate.
This is a sandpit for people who want to (a) argue about the efficacy
of specific road safety interventions (b) record their status as believers (with or without qualification) in the libertarian / conservative
orthodoxy that
climate change is a hoax / fraud / unsupported hypothesis.
Thinking Allowed is one
of my favourite programmes, so I was a tad disappointed to hear that thinking isn't allowed if it's thinking that contradicts
climate orthodoxy.
In a new screed against a free exchange
of ideas on
climate change, «Earther» Brian Kahn argues that those who question global warming
orthodoxy have no right to voice their opinions in public.
Of course,
climate orthodoxy and environmentalism can be challenged from political or ideological perspectives.
The jurors may well be so indoctrinated with the
orthodoxy of climate change that any suggestion that Mann is anything other than a great scientist trying to save the planet will fall on deaf ears and no amount
of evidence or appeal to reason will shake them
of the notion.
The response
of some GWPF scientists to the
climate orthodoxy shows that scientists do not need to be paid to have reason to question the
climate orthodoxy.
The
climate change
orthodoxy can be a tough proposition to be sceptical about if you mind being accused
of betraying the future
of the human race.
Breaking with
climate - change
orthodoxy, he said NAO cycles were probably responsible for some
of the strong global warming seen in the past three decades.
I keep searching for signs
of intelligence in the
climate orthodoxy beyond their
climate expertise and I'm not finding much.
Realising that you find any «scientist» who dares to do anything at all political to be repugnant, I am sure that you will be shocked to the core and deeply disappointed to know that Dessler (he
of the superquick paper guarding
orthodoxy against the barbarian hordes) counts «
climate change policy» as a major part
of his research interests.
When combining all this very obvious evidence, one can fairly surmise that either global warming is not very «global» or that human CO2 emissions are not a very powerful influence on the Earth's
climate or institutional,
orthodoxy climate science has failed, badly - or maybe it's a lot
of all three.
But it looks like an increasingly desperate move when seen in the light
of mainstream scientists scratching their heads about the global warming hiatus, and the non-manifest problems that
climate change
orthodoxy of yesteryear promised we should be expecting by today.
And it's Cox's surprisingly fragile understanding
of the
climate debate and his failure to subject claims about the «scientific consensus» to criticism which causes him to reproduce the same old
orthodoxy:
Rather than engage the
climate policy proposals I and others have put forward — like substituting prizes for subsidies, reducing regulatory barriers for alternative energies, increasing industry's carbon efficiency, and promoting efficiency gains in developing nations where such investments are most cost effective — they attack a straw man
of «conservative
orthodoxy that global warming can be overcome by private companies operating in free markets with little or no help from the government.»
He wrote a well - reviewed book called «The
Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming,» in which he presents measured skepticism of climate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducin
Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming,» in which he presents measured skepticism
of climate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducin
climate - change
orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role
of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal
of reducing them.
The Royal Society and its most prominent members have recently been taking it upon themselves to make statements — via open letters, the media, and public debate — about the moral character
of those who dare to challenge the
climate orthodoxy.
And this empirical evidence refutation
of conventional
climate science has become so glaring, that even the traditional mainstream press is finally taking notice that something is truly amiss regarding the IPCC's
climate science
orthodoxy.
He describes as «deplorable» the way
climate change has become a gospel truth that you deny or mock at your peril, «where one side [has] the
orthodoxy on its side and delegitimises the views
of those who disagree, rather than engaging with them intellectually and showing them why they are wrong».
The saga
of the global warming movement's jihad against skeptical scientists — including those whose skepticism
of man - made
climate change
orthodoxy is moderate enough to make them dislike the «skeptic» label — has grown to include the formidable Dr. Judith Curry
of the Georgia Institute
of Technology.
A paper in the peer - reviewed journal
Climate Dynamics — by Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Dr Marcia Wyatt — amounts to a stunning challenge to climate science ort
Climate Dynamics — by Professor Judith Curry
of the Georgia Institute
of Technology and Dr Marcia Wyatt — amounts to a stunning challenge to
climate science ort
climate science
orthodoxy.
Second, a sign
of just how shallow and desperate the vilification
of world - leaders and industrialists who do not genuflect to
climate orthodoxy is the language that is used to diminish them.
To the consternation
of alarmists, New York Times op ed writer Bret Stephens openly questioned the «consensus» that has demanded uniform acceptance without question
of the global warming /
climate change
orthodoxy.
Here are some
of the claims repeated ad nauseam by and in support
of the
climate change
orthodoxy, along with our responses: