I’m not defending actual mistakes — I will do a separate post on the IPCC and floods issue later, once I’ve done a bit of sleuthing myself. But there are lies and obfuscation circulating now that I would like to track, including about the Amazongate issue. Amazongate is gaining traction in the blogospew. Now, there […]
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Of Toast, Porkies, Amazongate and Denialist Donkey Braying
January 25, 2010 
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So, we had climategate, which in my estimation — and that of others — amounted to a hill of beans. Even Chylek admits that nothing in the emails destroys the main pillar in the AGW paradigm — the globally averaged temperature record. AGW, which is not premised on the hockey stick, or solely on model […]
Continue readingOn Pillar Toppling
January 25, 2010 15 Comments
I have a day off today and have been surfing a number of websites looking at elements of the skeptic criticism of AGW theory. Chylek’s letter got me thinking about these pillars he sees as being undermined by the CRU emails and why I have been so little moved by all the evidence skeptics have […]
Continue readingWhat did it for me?
January 24, 2010 13 Comments
The last couple of weeks have been a watershed for me in terms of my own thinking about AGW. I entered into the post-climategate world with a willingness to see if the emails turned up evidence of a quality and quantity necessary to undermine the foundations of AGW, which I take to be the dominant […]
Continue readingChylek’s Editorial
January 24, 2010 0 Comments
I want to explore the Petr Chylek editorial a bit because it contains some key issues for me: What are the key pillars of man-made global warming theory — or the AGW Dominant Scientific Paradigm? For me they are: – anthropogenic CO2 and other greenhouse gasses released in the atmosphere as a result of burning […]
Continue readingHimalaya Glaciers, IPCC and 2035
January 23, 2010 4 Comments
Over at Climate Audit, my new most favorite place for a good laugh, and head shake, McI has another post about the Himalaya 2035 IPCC AR4 mistake. One might think, given the coverage on his blog, that he’s … gloating? No. Not the puzzle solver. He’s just solving puzzles. Not speculating about motives or attacking […]
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