Sometimes we have to step back and look at the big picture. We have to remember that not everyone has heard or believed the one about global warming stopping in 1998. Denialists centre around nitpicking and ideas that global warming is a “house of cards”, so we respond the same way: countering all the “mistakes” [...]
Archive for February, 2010
The Antithesis to Nitpicking
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged agreement, al gore, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, IPCC, media, politics, risk management, science, skeptic, united states on February 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
IPCC Reform
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, global warming, IPCC, media, politics, science on February 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The IPCC is far from ideal, and we knew this even before word got out that WG2 had made several minor mistakes. I’ve written about this before – here I discuss how the IPCC is naturally biased towards understating climate change: being too optimistic in its results. And here I discuss the difference in public [...]
How to Prove Global Warming Wrong
Posted in How Science Works, Science Lessons, tagged agreement, al gore, alarmism, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, humour, IPCC, media, politics, satire, science, skeptic on February 16, 2010 | 34 Comments »
Over the past twenty years, vested interests and political lobby groups have done a fantastic job confusing the public about anthropogenic climate change. To many, they seem to have proven the whole theory wrong. But how could you actually prove global warming wrong – not just in the minds of the public, but through the [...]
All the Gates Explained
Posted in News and Reports, tagged africagate, amazongate, climate change, credibility, glaciergate, global warming, IPCC, leake, media, science, seagate on February 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
RealClimate just posted a very comprehensive and well-cited analysis of Glaciergate/Seagate/Africagate/Amazongate/whatever else Jonathan Leake has come up with. They conclude that the only real error discovered in the IPCC AR4 was the Himalayan glacier screw-up. The claim that 55% of the Netherlands is below sea level (when only 26% is below sea level, but a [...]
Characters You May Recognize
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, global warming, science, xkcd on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know what it is about xkcd, but they manage to hit the nail on the head every time. See this post about how such a “compromise theory” can skew the public perception of climate change. A subject I have written about since the very beginning. That one needs no explanation.
Salvaging Science Journalism
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged canada, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, global warming, globe and mail, IPCC, journalism, media, science on February 8, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Yesterday, I felt depressed about the state of the world – as if we were walking blindly into heavy traffic without bothering to stop or even open our eyes. I think it was this Globe and Mail editorial that put me over the edge. It claimed that the original 2035 Himalayan glacier claim was “reported around [...]
A Good Batch of News
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged censorship, climate change, credibility, debate, denial, global warming, IPCC, media, science on February 4, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Today’s batch of news feeds was great. I have not one, but two, posts to comment on from elsewhere in the climate blogosphere. Firstly, James from The Island of Doubt has written a fantastic article on the new line of denialist attack. This is the best bit: “Here’s IPCC author Phil Duffy, whose thoughts on the [...]
DeSmogBlog on the Road
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged canada, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, debate, denial, desmogblog, global warming, IPCC, media, richard littlemore, science on February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Richard Littlemore, a regular writer for DeSmogBlog and contributor to the excellent book Climate Cover-Up, is touring across the Prairies – and I was able to attend one of his presentations! If you have a chance to hear anyone from DeSmogBlog speak – I’m told that Jim Hoggan has a very similar presentation – you [...]
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