This is how it’s done, folks. You don’t like the findings of science? It’s too ‘inconvenient’ to you for whatever reason — economic, political, ideological? Too many billions of dollars in profits to make? Too many lush political contributions to garner? Too many ideological beliefs that threaten your identity if shattered? Two options: like George […]
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More Questionable IPCC Sources
January 30, 2010 
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Now, this is really silly… According to a report in the Telegraph, the IPCC AR4 included references to a climber’s magazine article and an MA Thesis to support its claims about glacier loss and global warming impacts. The IPCC WG2 report, Chapter 1, Section 3.2 on “Observed effects due to changes in the cryosphere cites […]
Continue readingRight on Cue: FOX News on Amazongate
January 28, 2010 18 Comments
As I expected, FOX News, that bastion of fair and balanced reporting, has picked up on the Amazongate kerfuffle and has posted a story on its oneline site. Here is an excerpt from the article titled U.N.’s Global Warming Report Under Fresh Attack for Rainforest Claims In the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), issued in 2007 by […]
Continue readingOf Toast, Porkies, Amazongate and Denialist Donkey Braying
January 25, 2010 26 Comments
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 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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