Global Warming Debunked?

limbicsystem writes, "I'm a scientist. I like Al Gore. I donate to the Sierra club, I bicycle everywhere and I eat granola. And I just read a very convincing article in the UK Telegraph that makes me think that the 'scientific consensus' on global warming is more than a little shaky. Now IANACS (I am not a climate scientist). And the Telegraph is notoriously reactionary. Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong? Because it seems to be solid, well researched, and somewhat damning of a host of authorities (the UN, the editors of Nature, the Canadian Government) who seem to have picked a side in the global warming debate without looking at the evidence." The author of the Telegraph piece is Christopher Monckton, a retired journalist and former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher.

you'll get answers

[aliscool]

"Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong?"

This is /. buddy, what you'll get is a bunch of reasons why its right or wrong from people that didn't read the article.

First to comment

[eko33]

I would like to point out TFA says nothing about Linux or Microsoft and I am confused.

Also, the graphs would be a lot sweeter if they were replaced with pictures of robots... or lasers.

Check Wikipedia for the truth.

[Pink Tinkletini]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *snort*

Oh, I kill me. I really do.

Re:Three Points

[elcid73]

Re: 3) Really? I haven't seen that show yet, but I've seen this scence your talking about. I'd find it hard to believe nobody has addressed this yet -unless your "glacier changing sizes seasonally" thing isn't correct which I'm too lazy to look up. Anyway- I don't pay much attention to global warming stuff, and I assume I'm talking out of my behind here... but I don't hear anything at all about the rotation of the earth. I know it's tens of thousands of years to effect major climate change involving the "wobble" of the earth, but it's always seemed so fragile to me that the tilt of the earth is enough to cause our seasons, so a slight variation in the wobble would cause those seasons to be extended/shortened etc. I guess that stuff is measurable though and someone would have noticed by now if we're in the "warm phase" of that wobble.

Re:Right/wrong is besides the point

[heinousjay]

Obviously. Anything nuclear is evil. That's why I've proposed legislation to ban anything with a nucleus to end this threat to the American way of life once and for all.

Re:A world in denial

[c6gunner]

Well I live in Canada, and I'm SERIOUSLY pissed off because these assholes have been promising me Global Warming for at least 6 years now, yet I spend 6 months out of every year freezing my friggin' balls off. Makes me want to buy an SUV and help the process along.

Re:A JOURNALIST?

[Woldry]

The majority has always been right, hasn't it? Am I right or am I right?

Let's take a vote and find out!

Re:It is wrong

[hawkbox]

Are you on crack?