Saturday, August 13, 2011

The EV-hater’s guide to hating electric cars | Grist
Electric vehicles (EVs) are a sales flop and a dismal failure. Or so I was told this week -- and last week and the week before -- by respected newspapers.
The Age’s climate expert and his peer reviewed Kenyan | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The Age seeks an expert to write on global warming and the drought in Africa. Naturally, it turns to John McIntyre, the Anglican Bishop of Gippsland, whose grip on the science is so sound that he thinks Australia can stop the whole planet from warming with just a little extra cut to its emissions
- Bishop Hill blog - Bradley interview
Raymond Bradley is interviewed by Insider Higher Ed.

The story seems to be that the Hockey Team emphasised the doubts and caveats over their findings
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This is true, but of course the earlier paper MBH98 was not similarly caveated. The other point to recognise is that any caveats and uncertainties were dropped long before Mann completed his work on the IPCC Third Assessment Report.

Bradley also steers into the realm of economics, claiming that controlling greenhouse gases will create new industries and jobs. True, but his erroneous conclusion that such controls are therefore good for the economy brings us back, once more, to the broken windows fallacy.
The Climate Mirror - Revkin.net
Collide-a-Scape commenters provide evidence that the climate standoff has hardened into two immutable world views. One side says:
Global warming denial is very much like a religious cult, and reaching the hardcore members is difficult.
The other side counters:
Global warming belief is very much like a religious cult and reaching the hardcore members is difficult.
Have we reached the war of attrition stage?

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