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66 [skeptic argument] "Medieval Warm Period was warmer"   [what the science allegedly says] While the Medieval Warm Period saw unusually warm temperatures in some regions, globally the planet was cooler than current conditions.

The Reference Frame: Yvo de Boer leaves the U.N. AGW bandwagon

Yvo de Boer has determined that the bandwagon is dead at the political level and should be urinated upon but he is ready to suck money from the AGW fraud at the corporate level for as much extra time as the reality allows. He will be a "consultant on climate and sustainability issues for KPMG", a global accounting firm, and will be associated with several universities.

Not bad for a stupid crook whose highest school was a boarding school in the U.K. Let's see for how much more time similar things will be possible. Meanwhile, Rajendra Pachauri sticks to the IPCC top chair and refuses to resign, guaranteeing that virtually everyone will know that the IPCC is a Titanic filled with liars, fraudsters, and porn writers, or all of these things combined.

Die Klimazwiebel: The heat is on

[alarmist Werner Krauss] The heat is on: the skeptics have a lot of publicity and have a huge coming out. It is about tea-parties and right wing politicians; anti-abortion and anti-climate change can be part of the same argument. Friedman seems to know this. He uses science as an argument and links to Joe Romm who has 'the scientific consensus' already at hand and on his blog. Friedman mentions climategate and IPCC scandals, but he makes clear that this does not change the basics, that is, man-made climate change is real. Friedman uses some cheap old arguments, for sure, such as the coal industry financing the skeptics. But the coal industry is real, Governor Perry in Texas is real, Sarah Palin is real, oil drilling is real, the tea-party movement is real, Glenn Beck and Fox TV is real, China and the economic crisis are real: the heat is on. There are many out there who are grateful that Friedman takes sides. It is a difficult problem: each of his arguments will lead to discussions for example on klimazwiebel, but before you debunk them consider this, too: Friedman and Romm will help many people to survive the next classroom or office discussion. Whatever that means; it is a fact that has to be considered.

About Werner Krauss

I am a social anthropologist and currently an associated DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) professor in the Department of Germanic Studies. I am trained in the Anthropology of Europe, and I have conducted extensive fieldwork in the Swiss Alps, in the South of Portugal and in the North of Germany. My research focuses mainly on the relation between people and their environment, and in this field it covers anthropology of landscapes, political ecology and post-ecological theories, environmental conflicts, nature conservation and environmental movements, National Parks, catastrophes, global change, climate change and science studies.