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...]
Can Space.com Teach Us Anything Useful about Climate?
I saw a Space.com article today entitled, Can Venus teach us to take climate change seriously? While Space.com writers should know quite a bit about the other planets, the article was a fount of misinformation and gross exaggeration. The obvious purpose of the article was scare us into taking increasing carbon dioxide levels seriously, following on the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NC4) report (which I’m still trying to digest). After repeating the NC4 claim that “10 percent of the U.S. … [Read more...]
Fire Facts Foil Climate Fraud
The 4th National Climate Assessment (NCA), released Friday, November 23, is a hodge-podge of cherry-picked data, outright lies, and scare-mongering at its worst. It predicts the premature deaths of tens of thousands from the effects of climate change, including deaths from starvation, mosquito-borne illnesses, extreme heat, flooding, and other natural disasters. The poster-child of this apocalyptic vision for the Earth was man-made warming-driven wildfire. Forests in flame were prominently … [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...]
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...]
California burning: Man’s actions have exacerbated the tragedy
The recent horrific fires in California have reignited a debate on the role that supposed man-made warming has on these events. Governor Jerry Brown leads the way, stating, "This is the new abnormal, and this new abnormal will continue, certainly in the next 10, 15, 20 years. Unfortunately, the best science is telling us that dryness, warmth, drought, all those things, they’re going to intensify." Is he correct? The answer is much more complicated than Gov. Brown’s. Human activities and … [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...]
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