Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense. Fire photo by peasap; Earth photo by NASA; composite by Phil Plait When I heard that the Mail on Sunday ran a climate change article over the weekend, I knew it would be bad.
But when I clicked the link and saw it was written by David Rose, I braced myself for the worst. Man, sometimes I hate being right. Rose is a guy who denies climate change in the way creationists deny evolution, and flat-Earthers deny the Earth is, well, not flat. That is to say, with claims so ridiculously wrong it’s charitable to call them "ridiculously wrong. " Latest myth from the Mail on Sunday: Arctic ice has returned. CLIMATE 101 with BILL NYE. Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan on the Greenhouse Effect. An inconvenient truth. Causes of Climate Change. Causes of Climate Change The causes of climate change can be divided into two categories, human and natural causes.
It is now a global concern that the climatic changes occurring today have been speeded up because of man's activities. The natural variability and the climate fluctuations of the climate system have always been part of the Earth’s history however there have been changes in concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere growing at an unprecedented rate and magnitude. The United Nations, governments and many top scientists around the world believe that we must act now to stabilise and arrest further changes. Climate Change: Is the Science "Settled"? The CO2 is Plant Food Crock. Sir David Attenborough: The Truth About Climate Change. The-world-is-hottest-it-has-been-since-the-end-of-the-ice-age. A reconstruction of global temperatures going back 11,300 years, which covers the historical period from the founding of the first ancient cities to the space age, has concluded the biggest and most rapid change in the climate has occurred in the past century.
Scientists found that the warm period following the end of last ice age, called the Holocene, peaked about 5,000 years ago when the world began to get cooler. However, this cooling went into a dramatic and sudden reversal about a century ago when global temperatures shot up to levels not seen for thousands of years, the scientists found. The study, published in the journal Science, further undermines the frequent argument put forward by climate “sceptics” that global temperatures now are no higher than they were in previous centuries, long before the increase in industrial emissions of carbon dioxide.
“We are heading for somewhere that is far off from anything we have seen in the past 10,000 years – it’s through the roof. David Attenborough: US politicians duck climate change because of cost. One of the world's leading naturalists has accused US politicians of ducking the issue of climate change because of the economic cost of tackling it and warned that it would take a terrible example of extreme weather to wake people up to the dangers of global warming.
Speaking just days after the subject of climate change failed to get a mention in the US presidential debates for the first time in 24 years, Sir David Attenborough told the Guardian: "[It] does worry me that most powerful nation in the world, North America, denies what the rest of us can see very clearly [on climate change]. I don't know what you do about that. It's easier to deny. " Asked what was needed to wake people up, the veteran broadcaster famous for series such as Life and Planet Earth said: "Disaster. It's a terrible thing to say, isn't it? Neither Barack Obama or Mitt Romney mentioned climate change in three TV debates, despite a summer of record temperatures and historic drought in the US.
Climate Change Fake? World Has Never Been Hotter. Climate Change. Science vs. the Feelies. Invalid Arguments: Climate Change. Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus. Read about the background to this image | Leave a comment | See more visualisations and info images | Home UPDATE 1 (12th Dec 09): There have been a few complaints about the legibility of the image.
So I’ve created a version on white instead of black. UPDATE 2 (19th Dec 09): Thanks to amazing feedback, I’ve amended the language and wording and detail of the image. Thanks particularly to Arthur Smith and Jooil Kim for clarifying info. Nice! I researched this subject in a very particular way. 7 ways to shut down a climate change denier. On November 18, with the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen fast approaching, U.S.
Sen. James R. The scientific debate. 2. Climate Change. 3 - Climate Change. In the 70s, They said there'd be an Ice Age. About that consensus on global warming: 9136 agree, one disagrees. The consensus about global warming among scientists (Image: James Powell) I just want to highlight this illuminating infographic by James Powell in which, based on more than 2000 peer-reviewed publications, he counts the number of authors from November, 2012 to December, 2013 who explicitly deny global warming (that is, who propose a fundamentally different reason for temperature rise than anthropogenic CO2).
Those hacked e-mails. The Big Swindle Movie. The Great Global Warming Swindle. The Great Global Warming Swindle is the Expelled of global warming (AGW), i.e. the go-to film for denialist propagandists.
It rolls most of the popular points refuted a thousand times into a sixty minute-plus "documentary," so, if anything, it's a good watch in terms of seeing how deniers cherry-pick, distort, and fabricate "facts" in order to "debunk" climate change. Hint: It's not too different from creationist techniques. [edit] How the film fails Climatology 101. “The Great Global Warming Swindle” is itself a Fraud and a Swindle. Durango Bill’sDebunking the Deniers of Global Warming “The Great Global Warming Swindle” is itself a Fraud and a Swindle byBill Butler “The Great Global Warming Swindle” (DVD/video/movie) is a pseudo-documentary in which British television producer Martin Durkin has fraudulently misrepresented both the data involved and scientists who have researched global climate.
Movie director Durkin has willfully misrepresented the facts about global warming just to advocate his own agenda. Five Stupid Things About Climate Change Denial. Climategate: Global Warming Denial & Hacked Emails. Global warming has stopped. Monckton Bunkum Part 4. Another Daily Mail Fail: Met Office Politely says, “Bugger Off you bloody, blithering Barmpot!” October 15, 2012 Denial-land saw a bit of a ripple over the weekend with yet another in a long series of Daily Mail Climate fails.
The Mail’s David Rose wrote a piece making, once again, the tired, shopworn, “it’s no longer warming” claim. The breathless headline caromed around the net – “Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it!” Countless trolls, professional and amateur, fired up their keyboards and tweeted, posted, face booked, and comment-threaded the latest “scientific” results. Things were going so well, until grownups at the Met Office stepped in and answered the bonehead claim. UK Met Office: Like this: Like Loading... Addressing the Daily Mail and James Delingpole’s ‘crazy climate change obsession’ article. An article by James Delingpole appears in the Daily Mail today under the headline ‘The crazy climate change obsession that’s made the Met Office a menace’. This article contains a series of factual inaccuracies about the Met Office and its science, as outlined below.
Firstly, he claims the Met Office failed to predict snow in 2010, but our 5-day forecasts accurately forecast 12 out of 13 snowfall events – as you can see in this article. In addition the Press Complaints Commission has also already addressed this fallacy with the Daily Telegraph in February of last year. As a result the newspaper published a clarification that highlighted that “the Met Office did warn the public of last winter’s [2010/11] cold weather from early November 2010.” Mr Delingpole also says we failed to predict flooding in November last year.
Mr Delingpole then inaccurately states that the Met Office has conceded ‘there is no evidence that ‘global warming’ is happening’. Like this: Like Loading... Money quotes and ripe cherries: can scientists avoid having their research “cherry picked” by climate sceptics? Every day there are dozens of new research papers on climate change related matters published, monthly there are thousands of them. In addition to the peer reviewed literature hundreds if not thousands of white papers, articles and blog posts are produced by the science community on climate change. And while this cornucopia knowledge can be overwhelming even for the most dedicated reader on the topic, it represents a rich field of opportunity for those who wish to mischaracterise the work of scientists. Climate Denial Crock of the Week - Party like it's 1998. The "No Warming in 16 Years" Crock. New Video: There is No Pause in Global Warming. September 4, 2013 Climate denier and frequent Fox News talking head Chris Horner of the tobacco and Oil funded Competitive Enterprise Institute used to have a favorite laugh line in regard to global temperature – “How do you measure the temperature of a planet?
Where do you stick the thermometer?” Actually, the planet has a very sensitive thermometer that has reliably continued to show the heat buildup, even in a decade of slower surface temp rise – and that’s the ocean. Part of the “This is Not Cool” series for the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, this new video includes interviews with an all star team including Dr.
Kevin Trenberth, Dr. It’s no surprise that the initial line of denialist attack on the forthcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), first installment due out later this month, will be the issue of “climate sensitivity”, that is, how much warming can we expect from a given level of greenhouse forcing. Like this: Like Loading... What do the 'Climategate' hacked CRU emails tell us? In November 2009, the servers at the University of East Anglia in Britain were illegally hacked and emails were stolen. When a selection of emails between climate scientists were published on the internet, a few suggestive quotes were seized upon by many claiming global warming was all just a conspiracy. A number of independent enquiries have investigated the conduct of the scientists involved in the emails. All have cleared the scientists of any wrong doing: In February 2010, the Pennsylvania State University released an Inquiry Report that investigated any 'Climategate' emails involving Dr Michael Mann, a Professor of Penn State's Department of Meteorology.
They found that "there exists no credible evidence that Dr. Just as there are many independent lines of evidence that humans are causing global warming, similarly a number of independent investigations have found no evidence of falsification or conspiracy by climate scientists. "Mike's Nature trick" and "hide the decline" Talk:Club of Rome. Aurelio Peccei stated as being part of inner group in 1993[edit] Under "Formation", it is stated that Aurelio Peccei was one of the inner group in 1993 - this has to be in error as he died in 1984. Please correct. Tony (talk) 19:32, 7 May 2010 (UTC) Opinions[edit] All statements of opinion by the author of an article and and broad irrefutable generalizations shall be deleted unless supported by an adequate citation.
Are climate sceptics more likely to be conspiracy theorists? It's time to come clean: climate change is a hoax. Climate change deniers 'are either extreme free marketeers or conspiracy theorists’ Global Warming agw "debate" : Follow the Money? Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science - Climate Change - Environment. Not just the Koch brothers: New study reveals funders behind the climate change denial effort. A new study conducted by Drexel University's environmental sociologist Robert J. Who Funds Climate Change Deniers? Unwinding "Hide the Decline" Full Show 9/27/13: The Challenge of Climate Change. The Science and Politics of Global Warming. Global warming is the poster boy for failed science communication. What went wrong? By Brian Dunning, Skeptoid Podcast Episode 309, May 08, 2012 Today we're going to open Pandora's box.
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Global Warming. 97% of Climate Scientists Agree: Humans are Causing Global Warming. Photo via ForceChangeDespite Reporting Results, CNN Ignores Its Own MemoThe results of an important survey of 3,145 scientists, are crystal clear: the vast majority of the scientific community believes humans are responsible for a warming climate. Climate Change Studies: Less than 1% Reject Global Warming. Consensus. CLIMATE CHANGE - The Jury Is In. 99.84% of Peer Reviewed Articles Agree Climate Change Cause by Humans. Scientists say united on global warming, at odds with public view. What does past climate change tell us about global warming? Climate Denial Crock of the Week - "The Medieval Warming Crock" How does the Medieval Warm Period compare to current global temperatures? One of the most often cited arguments of those skeptical of global warming is that the Medieval Warm Period (800-1400 AD) was as warm as or warmer than today.
Using this as proof to say that we cannot be causing current warming is a faulty notion based upon rhetoric rather than science. Medieval Warm Period. Sense from Deniers on CO2? Don't hold your breath.... Natural Emissions Dwarf Humans’ – A Few Things Ill Considered. This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Volcanoes Emit more CO2 than Mankind — OSS Foundation. Human activities release more than 130 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of more than 8,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 3.3 million tonnes/year)! (Gerlach et. al., 2002) Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1991).
How do volcanoes affect the climate? CO2 is not the only driver of climate. The "800-year lag" unravelled. Global Warming: It's Not About the Hockey Stick. Global warming on Mars, ice caps melting. Mars Attacks!!! Has the Earth been cooling? Global cooling - Is global warming still happening? Climate Denial Crock of the Week - Solar Schmolar. Solar activity & climate: is the sun causing global warming? 5. Climate Change. Climate Denial Crock of the Week - That 1500 Year Thing.
It's a natural cycle. Is there a scientific consensus on global warming? 32000 Scientists. Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project. Climate Change Skeptic Does 180 On Global Warming. Flogging the Scientists. 9. Climate Change - Meet the Scientists. Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a 'Liberal Hoax' Neil deGrasse Tyson schools former GM exec Lutz on climate change. Bill Maher lays waste to Global Warming deniers. 4 - Climate Change. Theological Argument Against Climate Change. Time to Wake Up: The Climate Denial Beast.
Solving The Crisis Of Our Environment: Part One. The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See. Shock! Prediction about global warming made in 1999 stunningly accurate. Going to the North Pole! A Climate Minute - Natural Cycle. Milankovitch Cycles Precession and Obliquity.