Saturday, December 05, 2009

What Copenhagen can do now to fight global warming
As for Marc Morano, I just watched a funny clip of him debating an English climate scientist over at Watt's Up With That, which concluded with the scientist calling him a dirty word. Morano's been a very effecive aggregator for the skeptic side, and has made a contribution. It looked to me like he both won the debate and deserved the scientist's epithet.
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I should also add that the absolute worst performance by any scientists dealing with this issue was turned in by John Rennie, over at Scientific American. In an article titled 'Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense,' Rennie knocked over seven strawman arguments that nobody mentioned here is even making, and managed to deliberately lie (and I use the word calmly and after reflection) to his audience.
Heliogenic Climate Change: "Adjusted" Alaska data trend over 2 degrees warmer than raw data
Curiously, the magnitude of the adjustments is about the same as the “global warming” signal of the past century. 
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Spinning the Literature
The point here is that a leading figure in the scientific community is publicly misrepresenting what the scientific literature actually says in exactly the same manner as was shown to be occurring in the CRU emails.
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - North American 2008 Cooling Attributed to Natural Causes
Cooler North American temperatures in 2008 resulted from a strong natural effect, and the overall warming trend that has been observed since 1970 is likely to resume, according to university and NOAA scientists.
So is there ever strong natural warming?

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