The Reference Frame: PBS Frontline: Climate of Doubt

At some points, both alarmists and skeptics are saying things. And such segments often reminded me of the first Obama-Romney debate. For example, around 10:30, you may compare John Kerry and Myron Ebell. Kerry is subdued and seems to have developed bad conscience. He seems to admit a sequence of recent defeats and the non-existence of the actual consensus. Ebell speaks confidently, as a person whose words have already been pretty much established.

So I believe that this program, a mixture of an apparently prejudiced tone against the climate skeptics and some facts about the skeptics' victories, their decency, education, arguments, upward trend of their influence, and their rather large number as well as the subtle hints about the alarmists' dishonesty that may be seen in the program, despite the clear attempt to create a pro-alarmist program, will help America to become one additional little bit more skeptical again.

I would grade this program on the recent years in the climate debate: B. The biased language and the narrator's apparent bias penetrating the program is my only complaint.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper predicts decreased global tropical cyclones over the 21st century

A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters models ocean temperatures, greenhouse gases, and aerosols from 1872 to 2099 and predicts "a clear decreasing trend of global tropical cyclone frequency throughout the 228 years of simulation."

Gillard knew the Australian public didn’t want an ETS or a Tax « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

She didn’t want to offer an ETS, and later declared in the campaign “there will be no Carbon Tax”, but after the election she gave us both. Her poor supporters have been left to weasel and whine post hoc that the public voted for carbon action in 2007. Apologists dissembled on whether the carbon tax is a “tax” or a “fixed priced scheme for an ETS” pretending that a lie was not a lie, that Gillard was doing what the people wanted and not breaking her word. It all comes to nothing.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New study finds growth of Antarctic sea ice accelerated 53% since 2006