Global Warming Debunker Debunked 676
Earlier this month we ran an article linking Christopher Monckton's attempt to discredit global warming. The submitter asked plaintively, "Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong?" George Monbiot has now done so. From the article: "This is a dazzling debunking of climate change science. It is also wildly wrong... In keeping with most of the articles about climate change in [the Sunday Telegraph], it is a mixture of cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation, and pseudo-scientific gibberish. But it has the virtue of being incomprehensible to anyone who is not an atmospheric physicist... As for James Hansen, he did not tell the US Congress that temperatures would rise by 0.3C by the end of the past century. He presented three possible scenarios to the US Senate — high, medium, and low. Both the high and low scenarios, he explained, were unlikely to materialise. The middle one was 'the most plausible.' As it happens, the middle scenario was almost exactly right. He did not claim, under any scenario, that sea levels would rise by several feet by 2000." And on the political front, the only major ally for Pres. Bush's stand on global warming, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard, is now willing to look at carbon trading.
Georges Moonbat. Great choice there. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Global Hubris (Score:3, Funny)
Tomorrow on Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Moo (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Global Hubris (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NASA GISS GCM on your laptop (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tomorrow on Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Moo (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Global Hubris (Score:3, Funny)
The bellboy kept it?
Myth (Score:3, Funny)
Re:NASA GISS GCM on your laptop (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Georges Moonbat. Great choice there. (Score:4, Funny)
I can't, but I'm sure the Republicans are behind it.
Re:I really don't understand how people ... (Score:1, Funny)
Youtube to blame (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Georges Moonbat. Great choice there. (Score:2, Funny)
1. I believe global warming is caused by people.
2. I cannot present evidence to support this assertion.
3. I cannot explain why other planets with no people are also experiencing global warming.
4. Since I cannot explain it, it is irrelevant.
5. Therefore I am right.
QED, hey this is fun.
Re:Global Hubris (Score:1, Funny)
Can we make a hole in the ozone ...
No, of course we can't. It is axiomatic that humans can have no measureable effect on the atmosphere.
Re:Georges Moonbat. Great choice there. (Score:2, Funny)
I'll "Bet" they feel special.