Thursday, December 11, 2008

Comparison of Observed and Simulated Trends: Hindcast, Volcano Only. | The Blackboard
In the meantime, I thought I’d let you have a look at a graphical comparison of the OLS trends based on monthly data between Jan 1970 and Dec 1999 and trends from GCM simulations over a similar period...
Dr. Michael R. Fox: Breaking Green Chains
FOX: I believe we may be on the brink of major environmental history! We may be near the end of the global warming scare stories, which have been shown to be filled with exaggerations, misrepresentations, horrendous political agendas, and junk science of many types. We may even be near the end of the environmental movement as we know it. Their exaggerations have cost millions of lives, billions of dollars, impacted foreign policy, energy policy, education policy, science policy, and ruined the careers of many who have tried to oppose them for insisting upon honest science. While in some isolated cases they've done some good, and they've made some lovely calendars and coffee table books, all things considered they've been terribly destructive. Too many costly policies have been made on the myths of their exaggerations. The destruction of the green movement is a worthy goal over and above the reconsideration and end of the horrendous impacts of the costly and wasteful CO2 mitigation efforts. Indeed both would be very well deserved. [Via Gore Lied]
Yesterday Al Gore claimed that in Chinese "Crisis" = Danger + Opportunity. Gore lied.
Those who purvey the doctrine that the Chinese word for "crisis" is composed of elements meaning "danger" and "opportunity" are engaging in a type of muddled thinking that is a danger to society, for it lulls people into welcoming crises as unstable situations from which they can benefit. Adopting a feel-good attitude toward adversity may not be the most rational, realistic approach to its solution.

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