Friday, February 03, 2012

Global Warming: Are the Skeptics Right?

Global warming -- or "climate change," as it's now called -- is an unbelievably complex subject that's deeply understood by only a handful of people  [I would argue that "climate change" is currently "deeply understood" by exactly zero people]

Status Update on UVA/Mann FOIA

At present, it has been one year and one month since we filed our Freedom of Information Request.  Only after we filed suit to force their response did we receive about 1,700 emails.  We were told they withheld about 6000 others.  That 6,000 balloned to 12,000.  We got UVA to agree how to select a small set of examples to give the court to test their claims of exemption.  (They were claiming that all these 12,000 contained “proprietary” information.)

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Climate Debate Has Gone MAD

[Tobis] Very few people have a job description of winning the battle for hearts and minds for climate policy, but as far as I know nobody at all has a job description of actually communicating climate science. Meanwhile, there are many people like Morano whose job description is to misrepresent science. Accordingly, he has a case that he is winning.

In military terms Morano is the invading, occupying force and we are the bewildered indigenous people, hidebound by ancient mores and traditions. We haven’t yet developed our own Comanche warriors, who abandon their tribal ways in favor of tactics that really threaten the invaders. 

Morano on Canadian TV: Fighting climate billionaires | CFACT

White wealthy environmentalists are telling poor people of color worldwide that they are doing it right -- by remaining poor, with low life expectancy -- but of course these billionaires are not about to change their own lifestyles to fit those of the impoverished peoples they praise.

This is a high-level discussion that should be seen by everybody who pays a utility bill, drives a car, or breathes.

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