A careful and fair overview of the so-called Climate Change issue...Yes, the climate changes all the time. Okay? Okay!
Everyone knows the climate changes. No one is particularly good at predicting it in advance.
Some folks have published deliberate lies or faked data and others have been fooled. Michael Mann's entirely fraudulent Hockey Stick Graph is famous by now and you surely have seen it?
Here is a pretty fair look at what we think we know about the climate over the last 1,000 years. It should be pretty obvious mankind is not really a factor in the very complex system. Dr. Roy Specer will explain below the graph...(when this graph was made the current slight cooling trend had not yet been added in).
Some folks have published deliberate lies or faked data and others have been fooled. Michael Mann's entirely fraudulent Hockey Stick Graph is famous by now and you surely have seen it?
Here is a pretty fair look at what we think we know about the climate over the last 1,000 years. It should be pretty obvious mankind is not really a factor in the very complex system. Dr. Roy Specer will explain below the graph...(when this graph was made the current slight cooling trend had not yet been added in).
My Global Warming Skepticism, for Dummies
From Dr. Roy Spencer's blog
I receive many e-mails, and a recurring complaint is that many of my posts are too technical to understand. This morning’s installment arrived with the subject line, “Please Talk to Us”, and suggested I provide short, concise, easily understood summaries and explanations “for dummies”.
So, here’s a list of basic climate change questions, and brief answers based upon what I know today. I might update them as I receive suggestions and comments. I will also be adding links to other sources, and some visual aids, as appropriate.
Deja vu tells me I might have done this once before, but I’m too lazy to go back and see. So, I’ll start over from scratch. (Insert smiley)
It is important to understand at the outset that those of us who are skeptical of mankind’s influence on climate have a wide variety of views on the subject, and we can’t all be right. In fact, in this business, it is really easy to be wrong. It seems like everyone has a theory of what causes climate change. But it only takes one of us to be right for the IPCC’s anthropogenic global warming (AGW) house of cards to collapse.
As I like to say, taking measurements of the climate system is much easier than figuring out what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect. Generally speaking, it’s not the warming that is in dispute…it’s the cause of the warming.
If you disagree with my views on something, please don’t flame me. Chances are, I’ve already heard your point of view; very seldom am I provided with new evidence I haven’t already taken into account.
1) Are Global Temperatures Rising Now?
Continue reading here.
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As to that now-famous Senate hearing?
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Like I had mentioned in an earlier post, Heidi Cullen's testimony was equivalent to a high schooler called up to do a speech who had not prepared sufficiently and has to try to wing it until her time facing a witness who actually knows what is going on with the climate is finally done.
So, here’s a list of basic climate change questions, and brief answers based upon what I know today. I might update them as I receive suggestions and comments. I will also be adding links to other sources, and some visual aids, as appropriate.
Deja vu tells me I might have done this once before, but I’m too lazy to go back and see. So, I’ll start over from scratch. (Insert smiley)
It is important to understand at the outset that those of us who are skeptical of mankind’s influence on climate have a wide variety of views on the subject, and we can’t all be right. In fact, in this business, it is really easy to be wrong. It seems like everyone has a theory of what causes climate change. But it only takes one of us to be right for the IPCC’s anthropogenic global warming (AGW) house of cards to collapse.
As I like to say, taking measurements of the climate system is much easier than figuring out what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect. Generally speaking, it’s not the warming that is in dispute…it’s the cause of the warming.
If you disagree with my views on something, please don’t flame me. Chances are, I’ve already heard your point of view; very seldom am I provided with new evidence I haven’t already taken into account.
1) Are Global Temperatures Rising Now?
Continue reading here.
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As to that now-famous Senate hearing?
Senate EPW Hearing: “Climate Change: It’s Happened Before”
July 19th, 2013
OK, so yesterday’s hearing really was entitled, “Climate Change: It’s Happening Now”. I like my title better.
In this exceedingly rare photo of me actually cracking a smile, note my subliminal shout out to the “Coke” brothers (whom I’ve never met, btw…I don’t even know what they do):
In this exceedingly rare photo of me actually cracking a smile, note my subliminal shout out to the “Coke” brothers (whom I’ve never met, btw…I don’t even know what they do):
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Like I had mentioned in an earlier post, Heidi Cullen's testimony was equivalent to a high schooler called up to do a speech who had not prepared sufficiently and has to try to wing it until her time facing a witness who actually knows what is going on with the climate is finally done.