Take the two
papers by climate skeptics that triggered that «redefine the peer - reviewed literature» e-mail.
A recent
paper by climate skeptic politician Viscount Christopher Monckton claimed scientists» model - based projections of climate change are overstated.
Not exact matches
The warming pause has been «exploited
by climate skeptics to refute global warming,» the
paper states.
Also, the brief period I spent scanning abstracts [no time this week to read
papers] indicates a difference of opinion suggesting whether there is a correlation between clouds and CRF (including a no
by Balling and Cerveny Theoretical and Applied Climatology 75:3 - 4 pp. 225 - 231 — which may be a good indicator as there was a
skeptic flurry last year over connecting CRF to
climate as another try at natural causes being responsible for recent
climate change).
I've read the
climate sensitivity
papers written
by Stephen Schwartz, who is taken to be a
skeptic by many who comment on this blog.
«These
papers should lay to rest once and for all the claims
by John Christy and other global warming
skeptics that a disagreement between tropospheric and surface temperature trends means that there are problems with surface temperature records or with
climate models,» said Alan Robock, a meteorologist at Rutgers University.
Neither Gelbspan nor anyone who repeats his accusation about corrupt
skeptic climate scientists has ever offered anything more than the embarrassingly
paper - thin guilt -
by - association insinuation first seen at those 1995 Minnesota hearings.
This is the reason that this terrible
paper should never have been accepted and should be openly shunned
by any real
climate skeptic.
By exaggerating the certainties,
papering over the gaps, demonizing the
skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they've discredited the entire
climate - change movement.
Andrew Dessler, a
climate scientist at Texas A&M University, has released a scientific
paper (Dessler 2011) that looks at the claims made
by two of a small group of «
skeptic»
climate scientists who regular SkS readers will be familiar with: Roy Spencer and Richard Lindzen.
The claim is often made that
climate realists (a.k.a.
skeptics) can not point to peer - reviewed
papers to support their position that there is no evidence of «dangerous global warming:» caused
by human emissions of so - called «greenhouse» gases, including carbon dioxide.
Answer: The TAR SRES scenarios of 2000, with all their combined computer simulation power, of joint efforts from 40 famous
climate institutes, made their Millenium forecasts 2000 - 2100 to triumph over the ignorant
skeptics to AGW and push them out of the way
by applying their combined wisdom......... Such enormous knowledge of TAR (40 Institutes) must have produced at least 1 smallish
paper, showing the present temp.plateau 2001 - 2011...... Show me just one please of the 40 which forecasted correctly 2001 - 2011....
Meanwhile,
climate skeptic Anthony Watts trumpeted a new
paper that questioned some of the techniques used
by NOAA to calculate U.S. temperature trends.
Energy and Environment, which published other articles
by McKitrick and McIntyre over the years, has been criticized for its peer - review process and preferential treatment for
papers by climate change
skeptics.
This is important because IPCC is required to discuss significant claims that appear in peer - reviewed journals and IPCC report drafts are reviewed
by enough people (including «
climate change
skeptics») to insure that such
papers are not ignored.
Additionally, he has published some of his
papers in the journal Energy and Environment, run
by climate skeptic Sonja Boehmer - Christiansen.
Those deliverables included research
papers, Soon's public appearances and presentations, a book chapter, and a report used
by another
climate skeptic in testimony before Congress.
«We show that the expertise and prominence, two integral components of overall expert credibility, of
climate researchers convinced
by the evidence» of human - induced
climate change «vastly overshadows that of the
climate change
skeptics and contrarians,» Mr. Anderegg and the other authors write in their
paper.