Category: Oh the Climate, It is A-Changin’
Possibly, It’s the Sun and Stars
The more you study something – really study it – the more interesting it gets: Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases. As a result, the rebellious spirits essential for innovative and trustworthy science are greeted [...]
Hitting the Hyperbole Button
When it comes to panicky statements on climate change, this one takes the cake. I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the [...]
Maybe It’s Not the End of the World After All.
That global warming report from the IPCC? Apparently it’s not immune from the hand of bureaucratic obfuscation and ideological distortion. I’m waiting for the actual report to be released (which should happen in about three months) before I make any conclusive statements about the science in the report. Remember, what has been released thus far [...]
Consider the Source but Study the Science
Horrible capitalists trying to muddy science with money! Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links [...]
So, What About The Polar Bears.
I don’t wonder at all why it’s so difficult for the average person to grasp the Global Warming issue. ON one hand, they might see a a story like this. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Far fewer polar bears cubs are surviving off Alaska’s northern coast, a federal government report released Wednesday has concluded. The study of [...]
Are You Hot? Blame Global Warming.
Paging Al Gore. Paging Mr. Al Gore. Heat waves like those that have scorched Europe and the United States in recent weeks are becoming more frequent because of global warming, say scientists who have studied decades of weather records and computer models of past, present and future climate. Decades, you say? So scientists have studies [...]
Global Warming Fakery, Al Gore-Style!
Gregg Easterbrook has a fun review of Al Gore’s jeremiad on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth up on Slate today. What makes it fun is that it’s painfuly obvious that Easterbrook does not want to have to point out that Gore’s movie is hokum in its details. He’d much rather praise it to high heaven, [...]
Tell Him About the Hockey Stick.
Pejman links to an interesting article about one of the prime pieces of evidence that supports global warming: the “hockey stick”. You may or may not remember the hockey stick. If not, I’ll sum up. Scientists working out of the University of Massachusetts found that when they plugged climate data into a computer program that [...]
That’s What You Said