Climate scientist Michael Mann is under constant attack by global
warming denialists in the government.
Not exact matches
But
in that letter, he comes across as a complete global
warming denialist.
You can be certain that various anti-science, anthropogenic global
warming denialist web blogs and op ed writers (with no scientific background) will take this study and trumpet it from the hills, completely out of context
in order to continue to be disingenuous and to purposely mislead people.
«
Warming» also allows
denialists to reject it because «it's cold
in Walla Walla today».
Did you know that Anothony Watts is raising the dead
in order to dredge up Nobel Prize winning global
warming denialists?
It was even demonstrated
in a paper by prominent global -
warming denialists (who correctly estimated the lag, but the rest of their thesis was rebutted here).
It seems clear that the UHI effect is a real physical effect and the complaint from AGW skeptics and
denialists is that the strong (and real)
warming in urban areas is contaminating regional and global temperature averages.
But
in that letter, he comes across as a complete global
warming denialist.
And of course none of the
denialists who claimed that
warming peaked
in 1998 or that
warming has leveled out make a peep about being wrong... again.
However, two are from journalists (I'm not sure what a discussion of ocean
warming below 2000m has to do with the price of cheese, mind), one a quote from a piece written by a NASA employee interviewing a climatologist, and KKTung is some sort of misguided mathmatics professor and very
denialist in his approach to AGW.
# 125 MARodger: «However, two are from journalists (I'm not sure what a discussion of ocean
warming below 2000m has to do with the price of cheese, mind), one a quote from a piece written by a NASA employee interviewing a climatologist, and KKTung is some sort of misguided mathmatics professor and very
denialist in his approach to AGW.
(And, as the Guardian noted aptly, also the time where the «climate science
denialists feverishly yell -LSB-...] that global
warming stopped
in 1998.»)
In other words, we can and should note that we are probably hitting the 400 ppm barrier, but then later when we drop slightly below, temporarily, 400ppm, the climate science
denialists will be all over that claiming that there is no global
warming.
FWIW even the
denialist site icecap.us admits that it took «from the 1920s to the 1950s» (49 years) to get six of their 10
warmest years, and only from 1990 - 2008 (18 years) to get four more --(49/6) / (18/4) = 1.8 times as frequent
in the more recent period.
In fact, I was by default not doubting the global
warming classic interpretation till I started reading multiple sources on the net, and as my self - confession as a recent skeptic shows, the argument from the
denialist camp are not only convincing to petrol gulping rednecks, but also to a very scientifically minded, atheist european (although, I must admit, I like motor sports; — RRB --RRB-.
So now I answer the «ice - age»
denialist argument (
denialists usually trot out ALL their inconsistent & contradictory arguments) this way: I draw a sine - wave
in the air with my hand, saying, yes, that the normal fluctuation over a long geological timeframe is to alternate between cold ice ages and
warm interglacial periods, and that now we are right here
in a
warm interglacial period (my hand raised at the top of the wave), and if there were no human GHGs, then we would expect that over a long time frame we'd be sliding down into an ice age.
There is one
denialist argument that I hear but is not discussed
in this post and that is «Only solar energy can
warm the oceans.»
It is when that person is Jim Cripwell, whose postings here make it clear that he's a
denialist...» offsetting greenhouse gas
warming» presumes one accepts greenhouse gas
warming in the first place, after all.
As noted above, the recent
warming «is seen
in the oceans, the atmosphere,
in Arctic sea ice retreat,
in glacier recession, earlier springs, reduced snow cover etc.» Another «inconvenient truth» for
denialists to avoid mentioning or acknowledging while overblowing the UHI issue.
Could anything be more out of date, backward - looking, or antiquated
in spirit than the Carlin report's repackaging of yesterday's
denialist illusions and pseudoscientific nonsense about climate — fantasies that have been shot down time and again, that don't have a melting Greenland glacier's chance
in a
warming climate when exposed to the light of reason, yet which have been presented to the world as if they were a brilliant refutation of the CO2 - global
warming link by the sharpest analytical minds
in the field of climatological research?
Given the level of denialism
in the face of glacial mass loss, plummeting Arctic summer ice cover, progressive collapse of ice shelves that have been stable for 6000 to 10000 years, northward, upward, and seasonally earlier movements of ecosystems and other phenological changes, increasing Greenland ice melt, and all the other direct observations of global
warming, I think
denialists will go to their graves believing it can't be happening.
We find this to be well - argued and
in line with what we have been saying about global
warming denialist interventions to manipulate the communication of climate change research.
Congress is the ultimate funding authority
in the US system — and NASA has already suffered funding cuts because Congressional
denialists don't like the fact that NASA data clearly shows that
warming is a present reality.
Nova and her husband, fellow climate
denialist David Evans — whose name was attached to Nova's email address
in Fred Singer's messages — also run Science Speak, a «scientific modeling and mathematical research company» that challenges evidence the world is
warming.
Nova is an Australian climate
denialist and author of «The Skeptic's Handbook,» a crash course
in false science claiming global
warming isn't happening and isn't human - caused.
Earlier this year, he co-wrote an article
in the peer - reviewed Chinese Science Bulletin with fellow climate
denialists arguing that the IPCC's models are inaccurate and the world won't
warm dangerously by the end of the century.
Goddard is the pseudonym of climate
denialist Tony Heller, who has been active
in the anti-global
warming action campaign since 2008.
The departure is
in Willis» head, refusal to accept basic science is why the
denialists fail to understand the evidence of Global
Warming.]
With the IPCC increasingly
in the spotlight, the
denialists can trivialize the entire environmental crisis simply by casting doubt on the scientific consensus on global
warming.
Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how
denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest
warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the other measures and indicators of climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to changes
in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..
Regardless of what one thinks of cap - and - trade as a policy approach, nothing looks likely to change
in that arena
in the near - foreseeable future, except for greater numbers on the no - compromise corporate and global
warming denialist side.
Yet, as Festinger would have predicted, instead of falling silent, perhaps even admitting error, the
denialists have become more vehement
in their attacks on climate scientists, environmentalists and anyone who accepts the evidence for global
warming.
The editorial skewered academic doubters of man - made Global
Warming as the «climate - change -
denialist fringe» and
in a shocking Freudian - slip the Nature editorial roared its political partisanship:
Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global
warming denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers
in the fossil fuel industries
The use of the word «
denialist» has the connotations of those who do not believe
in the Holocaust and is intended to denigrate those who disagree with the belief that man is responsible for the earth
warming.
I note that the word «
denialist» is used to describe people who have an alternative view to that of man made climate change and the «Comment Policy» forbids the use of other words which offend those who believe
in man made global
warming.
For years, the more dimwitted of the climate
denialists have been yammering on about a pause
in global
warming.
They even use a variant of the old «global
warming ended
in 1998» rubbish that has been doing the rounds
in denialist circles for some time with the following comment:
2) Steve Goddard, formerly associated with
denialist blog Watt's Up With That, cast a blogvote for global
warming having stopped
in 2002, since there is a flat linear trend from that date to present.
1) Pat Michaels, a well - known
denialist, wrote an online article for Forbes.com entitled «Why Hasn't The Earth
Warmed In Nearly 15 Years?»
Consider some of the arguments that are proposed and promoted by well - qualified scientists
in the
denialist camp: Global
warming stopped
in 1998.
I told a
denialist to name one climate scientist (publishing
in top peer - review journals within the past 5 years) who disagreed that anthropogenic global
warming was happening.
Lynn Vincentnathan 17 August 2010 at 3:06 PM «I told a
denialist to name one climate scientist (publishing
in top peer - review journals within the past 5 years) who disagreed that anthropogenic global
warming was happening.»
What I am talking about is, that it seems to me that with regard to climate science, this blog spends far too much time responding to the phony, trumped - up «debate» fueled by
denialist drivel, and not enough time addressing the legitimate scientific question as to whether it is
in fact too late to prevent global
warming and climate change that will be catastrophic to human civilization, not to mention the entire Earth's biosphere.
You can be certain that various anti-science, anthropogenic global
warming denialist web blogs and op ed writers (with no scientific background) will take this study and trumpet it from the hills, completely out of context
in order to continue to be disingenuous and to purposely mislead people.
Looks like the
denialist claim that global
warming peaked
in 1998 is clearly shot down (as if it had any legs to stand on
in the first place): http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2116873.ece
In scientific contexts, the
denialist can deny a cause (carbon dioxide does not cause global
warming), an effect (the Earth is not
warming), the association between the two (CO2 levels are rising and the Earth is
warming, but not because of the carbon dioxide), the direction of the cause - and - effect relationship (carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing because the earth is
warming) or the identification of the cause - and - effect relationship (other factors than greenhouse gases are causing the Earth to
warm).
No doubt, if and when the Gulf Stream fails and North Atlantic temperatures plunge (as happened repeatedly during global
warming events
in the recent history of Earth, due to ice melt flowing into the ocean)--
denialists will claim «global cooling».
Toni Massari @ 201, You get responses up - thread that pretty - much go not further than call your referenced piece
in Forbes «To The Horror Of Global
Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here» out - of - date (from 2013) and
denialist clap - trap.
It's a truism that whenever I write about the solid fact that the Earth is
warming up, that post will get comments that make it clear that
denialists — and please read that link before commenting on my use of the word — are like religious zealots, writing the same tired long - debunked arguments that are usually debunked
in the very post they're commenting on.