Category: Climate Change

Climate Change

It’s a Walkout (Almost)

Developing (poor) countries nearly walked out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit today :-

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6955990.ece
“Developing nations stage walkout over Copenhagen stalemate” 14 December 2009

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8412483.stm
“Developing nations return to Copenhagen climate talks” 14 December 2009

Is it any wonder, when the Developed (rich) countries are aiming for a stitch-up, sealing the deal in their favour ? :-

https://johannhari.com//2009/12/10/our-leaders-are-staging-a-scam-in-copenhagen
“Our leaders are staging a scam in Copenhagen” 10 December 2009

https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/984a0e00-e5e4-11de-b5d7-00144feab49a.html
“Carbon trading: Emissions cuts at the lowest price – in theory” 13 December 2009

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235629/Is-Blair-trying-cash-climate-change–Ex-PM-arrives-summit-urge-greenhouse-gas-deal.html
“Is Blair trying to cash in on climate change?: Ex-PM arrives at summit to urge greenhouse gas deal” 14 Decemer 2009

https://www.joabbess.com/2009/12/07/i-wont-wear-a-wristband-for-carbon-trading/

Tags Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Copenhagen

Bait & Switch Climate Change Media Non-Science Public Relations

It’s the Media, Stupid !

Some news organisations try really hard to bring you crack-up-to-date, snazzy, intriguing, hot-off-the-press narrative on the unfolding chaos of Climate Change.

Other news organisations think that writing about “Climategate”, as if it were a genuine challenge to Climate Change Science, is a serious piece of journalism.

But they’re wrong; so, so wrong.

The real story is Climate Change. It’s here, and it’s happening now. And it’s frightening.

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, Global Warming, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change The Data

Global Warming : Choose Your Baseline

Post author By Jo
Post date December 12, 2009
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Just recently you may have overheard conversations like “the Earth has heated up by around 0.7 or 0.75 or 0.8 degrees Celsius since the start of the Industrial Revolution”. “No it hasn’t, it’s only warmed by 0.2 or 0.4 degrees Celsius !”

So who’s right ? And how can you tell ? It all depends on where you choose your baseline, the year you count from. And it also depends on the reach or spread of the data in the data set you are looking at.

If you believe that the 1800s were colder than normal, then you will think that the Earth has not warmed up so much, because you will discount everything before about 1940 because it was, to you colder than “average”.

Some of the data available on global temperatures “interpolates” for areas where measurements may be missing in certain geographical regions of the world. This can give the appearance that the data sets are different, when actually, they’re not.

Tags Global Warming

Bad Science Bait & Switch Climate Change Media Non-Science Public Relations

Clive James : Inadequate Commentator

Post author By Jo
Post date December 12, 2009
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Clive James has openly admitted that he knows nothing about Climate Change :-

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8322513.stm
“In praise of scepticism”, 23 October 2009

and yet he still continues to pass judgement on the way the Science is conducted, and accepts the validity of the arguments of the Climate Change deniers :-

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8408386.stm
“Climate change – a story too often told the same way”, 11 December 2009

I ask you this : since he knows nothing about Climate Change Science, how can he possibly justify accepting the views of the Climate Change deniers ?

Tags Climate Change, Climate Change Science, denial, denier, Global Warming, Global Warming Science, sceptic, skeptic

Bad Science Bait & Switch Climate Change Non-Science The Data

David Whitehouse Risks Inaccuracy

Post author By Jo
Post date December 11, 2009
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Dr David Whitehouse has had his personal views on Climate Change Science aired in the Daily Mail this week; yet the newspaper did not seek to offer an article responding to his position, which is somewhat at odds with the general conclusions of mainstream science :-

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1235126/What-told-Global-Warming–missing-facts.html

So, in the absence of the Daily Mail permitting a questioning or critiquing of David Whitehouse’s personal views, I shall here attempt to unpack how close he comes to inaccuracy.

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, Global Warming, sceptic, skeptic

Bad Science Bait & Switch Climate Change Non-Science Public Relations Social Change The Data

Climategate : Myles Allen is Confused

Post author By Jo
Post date December 11, 2009
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Dr Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at the University of Oxford’s Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department is confused. “It is odd that we still don’t take climate change seriously”, he writes in The Guardian online, discussing the fact that a good proportion of the British public don’t believe in Global Warming :-

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/11/science-climate-change-phil-jones

He might need to wake up to the fact that the British Press are being misled, and in turn, misleading the country.

Tags Climate Change, Climate Change Science, Climate Science, denial, denier, Global Warming, Global Warming Science, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change Social Change

Heathrow : John McDonnell Signals Revolution

Post author By Jo
Post date December 11, 2009
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The UK Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington chews down on the Climate Change Committee’s report that effectively allows the expansion of Heathrow Airport, where a Third Runway is planned.

He projects mass revolt.

Tags 10:10, Climate Change, Climate March, Climate Rally, Global Warming, Heathrow, social revolt, The Plot, The Wave

Bait & Switch Climate Change Public Relations

Hacking The Climate Swiftboating

Post author By Jo
Post date December 9, 2009
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NEW WEBSITE ! MUST SEE ! The Comeback Real Fightback Truth about Climategate ! :-
https://swifthack.com/

ASTONISHING ! REVELATION ! Climate Scientists happily share data ! :-
https://www.desmogblog.com/stolen-emails-show-scientists-willing-share-data

INCREDIBLE ! EXPLOSIVE ! The “noughties” have been the hottest decade on record ! :-
https://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/00s-hottest-decade-or-record.php

SCANDAL OF THE WEEK ! Sarah Palin gets press coverage for her views on Global Warming ! :-
https://www.freep.com/article/20091208/BLOG36/91208015/1039/ENT04/Palin-calls-global-warming-bogus

Enough of the alerts. Now on to the chewy substance of this posting. If you’re not an American, the term “swiftboating” will probably mean zilch (zero) to you, so you might want to ask the Internet before we continue with our discussion.

Tags Climate Change, Climategate, denial, denier, Global Warming, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change The Data

The Only Way Is Up

Image Credit : Anja Niedringhaus

It doesn’t matter which way up Michel Jarraud (Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization) holds the temperature chart. The only way the trend can be understood is upwards. The temperatures are going up.

That’s Global Warming, folks !

Looking at the temperature data from any of the major data sets around the world, it doesn’t take a second to accept that the Earth is warming :-

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, Global Warming, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change The Data

Mini Hockey Sticks (2)

NOAA have posted the USA National Data analysis of the Climate for November 2009 :-

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?report=national&year=2009&month=11&submitted=Get+Report

Nationally in the United States, November 2009 was the third warmest November ever, based on preliminary data and there “was not a single state that averaged below normal temperatures for the month.”

Tags Climate Change, data, Global Warming, Science

Climate Change Uncategorized

Untidy Minds #11 : Bjorn Lomborg

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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In the Munk Debates 2009 on Climate Change, Bjorn Lomborg made a claim that I immediately found contestable, a claim that probably seemed to be convincing to the audience and yet was without foundation.

He claimed that there would be more people suffering water stress in the world without Climate Change, than there would be if Climate Change were allowed to continue.

Tags Climate Change

Climate Change Obamawatch Political Nightmare

Endangermouse

Will he, or won’t he ?

Will Barack Hussein Obama formalise, finalise, documentise the “endangerment finding” in an EPA declaration, that Greenhouse Gases endanger public health under The Clean Air Act ?

https://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-obama-environment8-2009dec08,0,3159719.story

If he does, he should be awarded the epithet “Endangermouse”, the more-than-mouse hero, for subverting the slow and ineffective grinding of the United States Senate and Congress.

Without waiting for them to chew and chomp and perhaps spit out the Climate laws currently before them for their consideration, Obama could impose change through the Environmental Protection Agency; the back door, but the fast door.

We’re going to get sense and speed on Global Warming legislation. It could be faster than you think.

Tags Climate Change, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA

Carbon Commodities Climate Change Political Nightmare

I Won’t Wear A Wristband For Carbon Trading

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo

So, tens of thousands of people have made their way to the Copenhagen Climate Change negotiations. Now that they’re sealed in the conference, in all that holy, heady air of importance and relevance, they won’t be able to escape the dominant narrative of the agenda : the implementation of Carbon Trading.

This could be the largest appropriation of commonly owned resources the world has even known. By the banks :-

https://www.bluenext.fr/

Tags Carbon Trading, Climate Change

Climate Change Media

Climategate : The Great Global Warming Hoax

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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The machinations of the “Climategate” scandal are continuing to graunch gears and spit out fascinating tidbits of investigative rumour, intrigue and quite possibly conspiracy, too :-

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-russian-secret-service-behind-leak-of-climatechange-emails-1835502.html

“Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails? FSB accused of paying hackers to discredit scientists after stolen correspondence traced to server in Siberia : By Shaun Walker : Monday, 7 December 2009”

Tags Climate Change, Climategate, denial, denier, Fraud, Hoax, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change Media

Journalism Makes Confession On Global Warming

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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One by one, the newspapers are coming to the altar of Anthropogenic Global Warming to make their confession.

I’m actually quite surprised that journalists can understand the Science sufficiently to be able to write accurately.

Wonders will never cease !

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703819904574551303527570212.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1233622/Copenhagen-climate-summit-Q-A.html

A joint editorial will be published worldwide :-

https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/06/papers-copenhagen-leader

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/06/copenhagen-editorial

“‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation'”

Besides all this affirmation, letters are being written :-

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6946458.ece

Tags Climate Change, journalism, Journalist

Climate Change Media

Untidy Minds #10 : James Inhofe

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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It’s a shame that the Financial Times saw fit to publish an article with the headline “US senator calls global warming a ‘hoax’”, considering the intense debate going on regarding the science of Climate Change.

On the other hand, it does show up the untidy mind of James Inhofe quite spectacularly, so maybe it is useful :-

https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b68c23ea-e0fc-11de-af7a-00144feab49a.html

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change

Untidy Minds #9 : Richard Lindzen (again)

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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Richard Lindzen makes an ungracious return to this collection of untidy minds, appearing courtesy of The Times, which is rather disappointing. If any editors of any newspaper know the detrimental value of lying propaganda, it should be those at the top at The Times, which is normally the channel for Government-sourced snapshots and snippets, sometimes deliberate leaks.

The number of outright mistruths and sneaky fiddlings in Richard Lindzen’s statement is astounding.

Tags Climate Change, Climate Science, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Bad Science Climate Change Non-Science

Untidy Minds #8 : SuperFreakonomics

Post author By Jo
Post date December 6, 2009
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[ Tongue-in-cheek note for sedate and aesthetic viewers : apologies for the excruciatingly brash, unappealing and over-complex nature of the video above and the nasal twangs and high-pitched, high-speed ranting of the speakers in the above presentation. They’re Americans. You need to forgive them. ]

Those who laughed and joked with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner over the Freakonomics investigations may well have cause to blanche and run away screaming at their latest tome, Superfreakonomics.

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Bad Science Climate Change Non-Science

Untidy Minds #7 : Ian Plimer

Post author By Jo
Post date December 6, 2009
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Who do you trust ? Professor Ian Plimer or 100 years of science ? I know what my money’s on, and it isn’t the Australian geologist with mining interests.

That doesn’t stop British journalists going with Professor Plimer. They are sorely in need of some decent education, in my view. Unless they’re going with a sensational story to get revenue. In which case they still need a decent education in the history of Climate Change scepticism and denial, so they know how divisive it is amongst the population. Publishing Climate Change denial makes the Media seem irresponsible, from my viewpoint.

I want to touch on just a snippet from a recent Daily Express article in order to demonstrate my resistance to Ian Plimer :-

https://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/143573

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Bait & Switch Climate Change Media Public Relations

Untidy Minds #6 : Mike Hulme ?

Post author By Jo
Post date December 6, 2009
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Professor Mike Hulme has been the science chap the BBC nearly always call, of late, when they want to inject an alternate view into a piece on Climate Change.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6115644.stm
“Chaotic world of climate truth” Viewpoint by Mike Hulme, 4 November 2006

The author of the book “Why We Disagree About Climate Change” has been bravely trying to reframe Climate Change, not as a problem of science, but a problem of society. To some extent, I regard his work as useful. On the other hand, I find some of his work a mind trap.

Tags AGW, Anthropogenic Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Science, Climate Science, denial, denier, Global Warming, Global Warming Science, Global Warming Theory, Man-made Global Warming, Manmade Global Warming, sceptic, Science, skeptic

Climate Change Political Nightmare Social Change Uncategorized

Untidy Minds #4 : David Davis

Post author By Jo
Post date December 4, 2009
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Congratulations go to David Davis, who appears to have singlehandedly found the way to split the British Conservative Party for good, by coming out as a Climate Change sceptic, and thereby effectively challenging David Cameron for the leadership (which Davis will lose, like he did the last time, I reckon) :-

https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-davis-why-this-ferocious-desire-to-impose-hairshirt-policies-1832213.html

He writes :-

“The row about whether global warming exists gets even more virulent. The case is not helped by the fact that the planet appears to have been cooling, not warming, in the last decade. Last week, the row was fuelled after a hacker revealed emails between the world’s leading climate scientists that seemed to show them conspiring to rig the figures to support their theories. So it is unsurprising that more than half the public no longer believe in global warming.”

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change

George Monbiot Slamdunks Sceptics

Post author By Jo
Post date December 4, 2009
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Without forceful words or frenetic accusations, George Monbiot calmly and methodically shreds the Climate Change denier-sceptics in this snippet from RealNews.