This is the fourth and last in a series of answers to a common, popular defense of drastic measures to combat manmade global warming. For the first, click here; for the second, click here; and for the third, click here. Bob’s final argument was this: “On the other hand, if climate change isn’t our fault but we choose to act like it is, we still end up with a world less polluted and more enjoyable. And we will have done everything we can to protect the creation we have been made stewards of. I … [Read more...]
Is Failure to Fight Climate Change Really Suicidal?
This is the third in a series of answers to a common, popular defense of drastic measures to combat manmade global warming. For the first, click here, and for the second, click here. The third and fourth points “Bob” made were these: “For most people, I think this would be a no-brainer issue if it weren’t politicized. But if the above two points are true, your political party affiliation doesn’t matter. Desiring to see the world less polluted is non-partisan. Practically, if there is ANY … [Read more...]
Is Fighting Climate Change Really Fighting Pollution?
This is the second in a series of posts answering a popular way of defending drastic efforts to reduce global warming that I encountered recently on social media. For the first, click here. The second point “Bob” made was this: “Whether you think climate change is manmade or not, I don’t know a single person who likes pollution. Everyone I know loves experiencing the beauty of our planet and thinks it’s a good idea to preserve and conserve what we have. No one wants a mini-continent of plastic … [Read more...]
Are There Really No Downsides to Fighting Global Warming?
Recently, on a social media platform I won’t name, a well-meaning person summarized in classic form the typical layman’s—and, to be candid, the typical politician’s—case in favor of drastic efforts to reduce manmade global warming. That offers a great opportunity to answer in clear, simple terms that other laymen can use. So, here and in parts two, three, and four, I’ll present his case, and my responses. To begin with, Bob (not his real name) wrote, “I don’t know any person over 20 years old … [Read more...]
New National Climate Assessment: “Buffoonification” of Climate Science
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. believes "human-caused climate change is real and poses significant risks" and thinks "mitigation and adaptation should be policy priorities." From 1993--2001 he was a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a premier site for American computer climate modeling. He's the author, co-author or co-editor of seven books, including The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (2007, Cambridge University Press), The Climate Fix: What … [Read more...]
One Little Piece of Eco-madness Croaks
Sanity has not perished from the earth, or even from the United States Supreme Court. Yes, it's an endangered species, but it shows up every once in a while. The big questions: can it survive, can it regrow, can it thrive? One sighting of sanity occurred today when SCOTUS ruled, unanimously, that a piece of land in Mississippi that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had designated "critical habitat" for the endangered "dusky gopher frog" was no such thing. "Why?" you might ask. Because … [Read more...]
Climate Catastrophism Causes Candidate Catastrophes
Voters were not kind to climate-change campaigners in the midterm elections November 6. Basic summary: The two highest-profile climate initiatives failed. Republicans in Congress's "Climate Solutions Caucus" suffered defeats: of 43 members, 11 lost (including Republican caucus leader Carlos Curbelo), 3 appear likely to lose in races not yet called, 1 lost in a primary earlier, and 7 incumbents chose not to run when they saw the handwriting on the wall. Environmentalist billionaire Tom … [Read more...]
Are Georgia Summers Getting Hotter?
This morning a friend in Georgia mentioned that the common consensus among his friends there is that recent summers have been much hotter than in the past, and for that reason they're inclined to believe claims of rapid human-induced global warming. Aside from the facts that what's happening in one tiny part of the globe doesn't reveal what's happening everywhere else and that warming doesn't prove human causation, I told him I suspected the anecdotal memories might conflict with hard data. … [Read more...]
We’re Waiting for Media’s Corrections on Ocean Warming
Joshua Emerson Smith, a reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has picked it up, and the U-T gave his story prominent placement: "Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study." "It" was the revelation, by mathematician Nicolas Lewis, who specializes in statistical analysis related to climate change, that a major paper in Nature, widely considered the world's premier scientific journal, grossly overestimated the amount of warming to the world's oceans and, … [Read more...]
Where’s Global Warming When We Need It?
"NAM model forecast of total snowfall by Friday evening. Probably overdone, but it still looks like a major winter weather event. And it's only mid-November. #?*^ global warming."---Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D., Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow, Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite … [Read more...]
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