Monday, July 27, 2009

Keep a cool head on climate change: Climate Week at the University of York
From 26-30 October, the University of York's Climate Week will be encouraging open and honest discussion on climate change.

This promises to be an excellent antidote to attempts to prevent any questioning of those who believe in man-made global warming.
The Reference Frame: Climate feedbacks from measured energy flows
Well, [Clement-Burgman-Norris] use some data but also "complex models". It's clearly a basic logical error to try to show that the models represent a feature of the climate incorrectly, while using the same models to derive this conclusion. ;-)

In other words, Lindzen's and Choi's paper shows that the combination "reality and models" is logically inconsistent, so one can derive anything - both correct and incorrect statements - from such an inconsistent set of axioms. Whatever you derive is therefore inevitably untrustworthy.
Science Weekly podcast: Jonathon Porritt criticises UK's climate change policy | Science | guardian.co.uk
The environmentalist questions whether politicians understand the urgency of climate change.
Time to Pay our Climate [Hoax] Debt | Use Celsias.com - reduce global °Celsius
...the principles are clear: that the polluter pays for the excessive consumption of the rich, not the poor, and that in a civilised society redistribution is a critical way of righting historical injustice.

The developing world has set out its ambitious agenda. It’s for us to move away from business as usual if we’re to come close to meeting it.

Nick Dearden is Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign

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