Monday, September 03, 2012

- Bishop Hill blog - Lewandowsky teeters on brink
In the comments to the earlier Lewandowsky thread, readers note the following comment by Skeptical Science writer, Tom Curtis:
Lewandowsky: FoI request submitted to UWA | Australian Climate Madness
The University may seek to avoid disclosure on the grounds of confidentiality, but I think there is a strong public interest case to be made.
If 2013 breaks heat record, how will deniers respond? - Stefan Rahmstorf - 03 September 2012 - New Scientist
the oceans are soaking up heat.
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It is straightforward to remove the effects of the solar and El Niño cycles from the data
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Perhaps a record year will silence those unscientific voices who claim that global warming has come to an end. But the denial industry has already come up with a plan B: to claim that global warming is completely down to El Niño. To expose the fallacy of that, we just need to look again at where the heat comes from: below or above.
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The signal of global warming caused by humans is very clear, despite attempts by certain parties to drown it out with a lot of noise.

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