Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Lewandowsky’s Fake Correlation « Climate Audit
In the Lewandowsky dataset, there were two respondents that purported to believe in CYMoon and disagree with CauseHIV (both were in Tom Curtis’ group of two super-scammers). I’ll show that these two superscammers make major contributions to the supposed “correlation”. Like Lewandowsky, I don’t believe that these two respondents are present “by chance”: I believe that they are present as intentionally fraudulent responses.
The [Alleged] Social Cost of Carbon [Dioxide]: How to Do the Math? - NYTimes.com
...carbon [sic] pollution has a host of external negative impacts like public health damage that she says must also be factored in.
...Michael Greenstone, a former chief economist for the president’s Council of Economic Advisers who helped create the $21 price tag back in 2010, said he stands by the 2010 analysis.

“I’m not overwhelmed by the opinions of two people, experts as they may be, about what the proper assumptions are, not compared to the collective effort of a dozen federal agencies and leading experts from the wide variety of disciplines that have insight into the climate change problem,” Dr. Greenstone said. “Calculating the social cost of carbon requires many, many assumptions.”
Arctic Resources, Exposed by Warming, Set Off Competition - NYTimes.com
Western analysts have worried that China could leverage its wealth, particularly in some of the cash-poor corners of the Arctic like Greenland and Iceland.

But Chinese officials have cast their motives in more generous terms. “China’s activities are for the purposes of regular environmental investigation and investment and have nothing to do with resource plundering and strategic control,” the state-controlled Xinhua news agency wrote this year.
Arctic To Be Ice Free In Winter By The Year 2000 | Real Science
Fourteen degrees of Arctic warming from 1910 to 1960, when CO2 was at super-safe levels.
What Gets Me Is That Alarmists Are Complete Morons | Real Science
Fifty years ago they were predicting a meltdown, and forty years ago they were predicting an ice age.

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