That’s what Geoffrey Lean suggests is needed to counter what he calls the “swiftboating” of climate science in the wake of Climategate. He argues that “environmentalists must bear a fair share of the responsibility” for the rising number of people who don’t believe in global warming (according to recent polls). He partly blames the “backlash”…Continue Reading…
There’s an interesting Q & A with Roger Pielke Sr. over at Pajamas media. The interviewer tried asking several times if the case for AGW was shot because of Climategate. He didn’t get the answer he wanted. Judging by the comments, Dr. Pielke did not give the audience what they wanted to hear, either.
The current issue of Nature carries an editorial on the CRU email controversy. Here’s one passage that I agree with: Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real “” or that human activities are almost certainly the cause. That case is supported by multiple, robust lines of evidence, including several…Continue Reading…
The most immediate one is the vigorous debate Climategate has engendered between individuals of all political, ideological, and scientific stripes. Judith Curry from the Georgia Institute of Technology deserves much of the credit for kickstarting this, first in speaking directly to Steven McIntyre’s audience at Climate Audit, and then shortly after that with another essay…Continue Reading…
My Tuesday post at Nature’s Climate Feedback is up.
And climate advocates wonder why the public is confused about global warming. Thus writes David Biello in SciAm: Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know precisely what temperatures or greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere constitute a danger. Biello goes on to survey leading climate scientists on various threshold levels, who bascially throw up…Continue Reading…
At some point, ClimateGate will run its course in the coming weeks and people will start paying attention to James Hansen’s first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, due out in December. The odd thing is that mainstream climate advocates might get a change of topic with Hansen, but it won’t necessarily be to their liking….Continue Reading…
As Roger Pielke Jr. rightly notes, this Times story about lost temperature data is “old news.” It also quotes Roger from one of his old blog posts, without attributing it as such. This is not cool, because it looks like a fresh quote in the story. In a comment over at Roger’s site, I mention…Continue Reading…
That’s the title of a profile I wrote of James Hansen, which is published today in Nature Reports: Climate Change. (Publishing cycles can be cruel, sometimes.) Hansen’s first book, Storms of my Grandchildren, is due out in December. When I met with him a few weeks ago to talk about the book’s themes, as well…Continue Reading…
So after reading Monbiot’s latest on climategate, I wondered if he was howling into a wilderness. (He did say he never felt so alone.) Now I see that Tom Yulsman has heard the call and who knows how many others have too. But will they be too fearful to respond, because Morano is lying in…Continue Reading…