Sunday, July 29, 2012

How to Detect Pseudoscience: The Case of Bill McKibben and Catastrophic Global Warming - YouTube
So on this episode of Power Hour, Dr. Dennis and I discuss the three questions you need to ask about any scientific claim you hear. Making a lesson out of McKibben, we explain that if you ask these questions of McKibben's piece (and most of what you read on climate) its claims of catastrophe are revealed to be baseless while its prescribed solutions are revealed to be catastrophic.

Don't believe me? Watch and find out. Stick around until the end, when we offer McKibben McKibben and anyone he chooses $10,000 to debate us at Duke University.

Bill McKibben famously said that if the (economically vital) Keystone XL Pipeline was allowed to exist, it was "game over" for the planet. We believe this episode is "game over" for Bill McKibben.
Scientists unlock ocean CO2 secrets key to climate -study - AlertNet
overall, the Southern Ocean is large net carbon sink, the authors say, calculating the area between 35 and 65 degrees south takes up the equivalent of 1.5 billion tonnes of CO2 a year, or more than the annual greenhouse gas emissions of Japan.

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