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Adversaries, zombies and NIPCC climate pseudoscienceContrary to recent claims in the media, there is remarkably good agreement between models of climate change and the temperature data.
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How does the NIPCC spread doubt, given the temperature record and consensus of professional scientists? The answer is manufactured partisanship.
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IPCC reports openly discuss the strengths, weaknesses, criticisms and uncertainties of the science.
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Heartland’s NIPCC partially mimics the IPCC, but with key differences. It is written and reviewed by dozens of people, almost exclusively drawn from the “sceptic” community, and is consequently highly partisan.
Indeed, the NIPCC advocates an adversarial approach to assessing climate science, with partisan “teams” arguing for different positions.
This call for an adversarial debate has also been repeated in recent op-eds by Bob Carter, Judith Curry and Gary Johns.
The call for adversarial debate is a variant of the debate ploy, a common pseudoscience tactic. At first glance having two teams present competing positions seems entirely reasonable, but this approach only works if the intended audience can effectively assess the arguments presented.
...I prefer a different description of NIPCC reports – one that may not be fit for publication.
Michael Brown: The ConversationI am an observational astronomer
Germ Theory: How Disease And Climate Change Fell The Roman Empire | KGOU[University of Oklahoma historian Kyle Harper] Climatatic fluctuation has been one of the major drivers of all global history, of the history of life on earth, and of human history, in particular, and coming to understand the massive fluctuations that have affected the human species upwards history is very much a part of the kind of present agenda to understand the history of the climate and the dynamics of the climate, and climate fluctuation in a richer sense, and so, we as historians, of a period like the Roman Empire, have been great beneficiaries of this because there are a lot of smart people around the world trying to use ice cores, trying to use tree rings, trying to use speleothems, cave deposits, trying to use other kinds of proxy evidence to understand the history of climate variability, and it’s giving us an almost unimaginably rich picture of climate and climate change in a period like the Roman Empire.
Who Cares About Climate Change? - TheCollegeConservativeThe very basis of the argument warning against a change in climate is that climate should never change. This is an absurdity in itself. We grew up learning about ice ages and times of a worldwide subtropical climate, and we’re supposed to freak out about a change in temperature?
National Wildlife Federation CEO announces retirement - The Hill's E2-Wire The longtime conservation leader plans to tackle climate change solutions in a new book and spend more time with his family.
UK Government hides its own graphic comparing Nuclear to Wind and solar « JoNovaIs this a 2013 Streisand-Effect finalist?
Global warming helps Greenland snag its first big mining contract - World News ReportThe company plans to build the mining site in three years with up to 3,000 workers, the equivalent of more than five percent of Greenland’s population of 56,000.
Australia PM Tony Abbott: Climate Change-Wildfire Connection Is 'Complete Hogwash'"That is complete hogwash," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told News Corp. Australian newspapers in an interview published on Friday.
Unless the Conservatives come clean about the energy mess they created, they will never deserve our vote – Telegraph Blogsconsider the 2008 Climate Change Act, against which only five MPs voted against. The rest – including David Cameron – were apparently all for introducing the most expensive and pointless legislation in British parliamentary history, guaranteed to cost the taxpayer £18.3 billion a year in needless expenditure (on dubious technologies like carbon capture; and, of course, on wind turbines) till 2050. Yes Ed Miliband may ushered it in as Secretary of State for Energy And Climate Change. But it's not as if anyone on the Conservative benches – save Peter Lilley, Christopher Chope and Andrew Tyrie – opposed it.
Russell Brand: climate change efforts are "indifferent"
Comedian tells BBC efforts to address climate change “will not solve problem” and calls for tax on polluting companies
2010: Russell Brand and Katy Perry fly wedding guests via private jet - Private Jet Daily
Comedian Russell Brand and pop star Katy Perry will be tying the knot in India.
Their wedding guests will be flown by private jet to the country. They will also be staying in luxurious tents during the six-day celebration of love.
2011: Russell Brand boards a private plane as he and wife Katy Perry take a romantic break | Mail Online
Because of his criminal record, he was held at Tokyo airport and then asked to leave the country.
Russell Brand shells out $2.2M for elegant Hollywood Hills mansion
Russell Brand on revolution: “We no longer have the luxury of tradition”
I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics.
Russell Brand takes on the crisis of civilisation. But what now? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com
"The planet is being destroyed. We are creating an underclass and exploiting poor people all over the world. And the legitimate problems of the people are not being addressed by our political powers."
Elon Musk: oil campaign against electric cars is like big tobacco lobbying | Environment | The Guardian[Musk] does not think governments are doing enough to support the electrification of cars, despite a grant scheme that knocks £5,000 off the price of new plug-in vehicles.
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"If we start seeing bazillions of electric cars on the road, then maybe we can reel back the incentives. The acid test is are there tons of electric cars on the road? Well, no, probably the incentives aren't strong enough."
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He rates himself as "greenish" in his personal life. He switches off lights when he leaves a room, and has installed solar panels on his home, but "it's not like I've got LED lights everywhere, and I'm not a vegetarian.
...The cars will eventually be powered by solar panels, he said, which should generate more power than is used by the cars recharging.
"What we're trying to convey is that, if you have Tesla Model S, you'll be able to drive for free, for ever, on sunlight."
New research shows the Arctic is practically baking under anthropogenic global warming, hottest in 120,000 years - Green - Catholic OnlineMiller says that solar radiation was a full 9 percent greater 11,700 years ago than it is today. During that time, the last ice age ended and global temperatures warmed. However, despite that more recent peak in warming, temperatures today are even hotter.
Miller and his colleagues reached their conclusions by measuring the gas bubbles trapped in ice cores.
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Even if there is no additional warming over the next several years, researchers say they expect the ice caps to disappear.
A response to my critics on global warming » Spectator Blogs[Matt Ridley] not one of my critics managed to disprove my central assertion, that climate change is probably causing net benefits now and is likely to continue doing so for some decades yet.
Behind the warming lawsuit: Special interests push costly measures on Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Letters To EditorSadly, Nelson has been used as a proxy by the well-funded and well-organized environmentalists. A video and photos show Nelson and his family in their village. A five-man crew flew in from as far away as New York and shot the raw footage, which was then turned into a slick video by award-winning producers in Montana.
At the tip of the iceberg of outside environmental groups are iMatter Campaign, Our Children’s Trust and Witness, but it runs much deeper, with ties to organizations that have assets in excess of $1.2 billion and include the Tides Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, according to Form 990s filed with the IRS. The lawsuit in Alaska is one of nine filed nationally, each presented as if it originated from young Americans.
Obama’s Sweat Saved The Climate | Real ScienceObama had to wait until late June to find a normally hot day in DC, then quickly announced an outdoor speech about bypassing Congress to save the planet. He combined a third-rate acting job with some brilliant comments about how flat-earther’s evil thoughts were destroying the climate.
Since his speech, the US has had the fewest hurricanes and tornadoes on record, a record corn crop, and Virginia had its fewest number of 90 degree days on record.
The World Today - Wife of jailed Greenpeace activist speaks out 24/10/2013He said it's incredibly cold. He had a day, you know, sort of in this last week where the window blew open and you know huge drifts of snow came you know, blowing in and he's only got one pair of trakky daks that he's able to wear. So the conditions are not good, not good at all.
James Delingpole: Why can't the BBC be impartial in the climate change debate? » The SpectatorThe Beeb constantly resorts to 'experts' whose arguments are bigoted, feeble, fatuous, fallacious and stupid
Arctic Our Way: Greenpeace, Gazprom and the Battle for the Shelf | The Interpreter“The majority of our volunteers do not work in Greenpeace,” Kumi Naidoo, International Executive Director of Greenpeace explained to The New Times. “They simply take a vacation and spend their own personal time. And believe me, each time another expedition is being prepared, there isn’t a single Greenpeace activist who doesn’t dream of taking part in it.”
Greenpeace International takes on the basic expenses for the expedition, and local offices pay only the tickets of the volunteers.ii According to Vladimir Chuprov, the cost of a day of sailing on the Arctic Sunrise is about €10,000 euros, that is, the budget of a 20-day operation in the Arctic is approximately €200,000.
...The boats approached the platform, violating the 500-meter safety zone around it established under international standards. Two activists, Sini Saarela and Marco Weber, threw up the grappling hooks in order to climb the 15-meter height of the platform, but security guards cut the cables, so that the activists fell in the water, where the Ladoga, a border ship, picked them up.
Why Electric Vehicles Have Stalled : The New Yorker“The one company that’s been able to succeed so far has been Tesla,” he said. “They’re not selling to normal consumers, but to the people who already have a Porsche in their garage. If Tesla is serious about going into the mass market, they’re going to have their head handed to them.”
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