This post is from Counting Cats in Zanzibar. This blog covers a wide range of topics and is a very good read.
BBC Bias (Again)
I saw a small bit of a thing on BBC News this morning. OK, this is from memory and I didn’t watch the whole thing because I would have been sedated to prevent me from hurling the cat at the Samsung. And neither Timmy nor the telly deserve that…
I would though chuck an irate ocelot at Harriet Harman’s minge. That is another story though…
It was about “The Rise of Climate Scepticism in Australia”. It described climate sceptics (they’d burn ‘em if that weren’t “polluting”) meetings as being like an “American religious revivalist meetings” (that’s so BBC on so many levels, that’s the sort of thing to get the average Indy reader priapic) and it was just generally horrendous. Despite my inchoate rage I did though clock something which outraged me beyond feline-throwing comprehension.
It opened with a shot of the cracked, dry Australian Desert. You know that thing that Australia has a lot of but also had a lot of when Captain Cook made landfall and even had a lot of during the Dreamtime of the Aboriginals with this soundtrack:
Yup, whilst the BBC now calls us “sceptics” and no longer “deniers” it plays music from a symphony written specifically about the Holocaust.
Where do you think that band is performing? Don’t look much like the Royal Albert Hall to me unless that gaff has really gone downhill very recently.
So the likes of me, PA and Cats wanna disagree with the “consensus” on a scientific issue and we’re ushered to the “naughty-corner” along with that cunt Nick Griffin. Well, some of us, Aunty Beeb actually not only can parse the science but will not fall for cheap tricks like that. Some of us know what an adiabatic lapse rate is and some of us have also been to Auschwitz. Some of us even listen to C20th orchestral music.
This blog is a about Anthropogenic Global Warming(AGW) which is global warming caused by the activities of man. The core issues are:
- Is the climate warming, - Is the warming outside of historic norms - Is it caused by anthropogenic CO2 - Will it result in global disaster as the IPCC insists
Only the first has been satisfactorily answered in part and the qualification is that the data upon which the IPCC claims are based has not been made available for full scrutiny as yet. The average terrestrial land temperature experienced slight warming this century. In some regions such as Antarctica it has cooled. The earth has been recovering from the Little Ice Age since 1650 (see Akasofu 2007 & 2009) which is one reason this warming trend is expected. It appears that this is not outside of historic norms (see Medieval Warm Period) and that the IPCC and some scientists have attempted to downplay the Medieval Warm Period and the effects of the Little Ice Age. The later two issues are not settled despite UN and government spin towards the contrary. For some excellent background from a real climatologist not implicated in the recent CRU revelations see the links to Dr Roy Spencer's blog below who discusses these issues as a professional.
Links
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Governor Brown to Join More than 500 Scientists in Call to Action on
Climate Change Tomorrow
Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will joi...
The 2013 Moore Oklahoma Tornado – a synopsis
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By Paul Homewood I have deliberately held off running this post for a day
or two, partly because I felt it inappropriate to do so earlier, and also
because...
Future Food
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Often ignored in times of calamity, and eclipsed in the media by *faux*crises like Global Warming, humanity is facing the very real possibility of
food sh...
While we’re still here…
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What do the Kitty Kounters know about a bloke called Anatoliy Golitsyn? No
Googling: that’s what I did, and I want an independent opinion before I
post any...
The Royal Society Gets Radical
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When the word “radical” is used four times in two sentences, something is
amiss.
Read the rest here.
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The amazing meeting
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The Global Warming Policy Foundation has taken Paul Nurse up on his
suggestion that they get together with some top climatologists to discuss
climate sci...
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*Viscount Ridley: Earth To Met Office: Check Your Climate Facts*
*The latest science suggests that our policy on global warming is
hopelessly misguided...
The Oaklahoma Tornado – May 2013 – some thoughts
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The devastating tornado that occurred during the 21st of May 2013 presented
some interesting observations from a scientific stance. 1. There was no
light...
Answers
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So all you skeptics want answers to how much warming we should expect from
adding CO2 to the atmosphere? An interesting new study has been released
which...
Blog Break
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This blog is going to go silent for the summer, as I turn my attention to
completing the 2nd edition of *The Honest Broker*.
I'll keep up my blogging at ...
Notable Quotes
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*"If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global
observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate
change...
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Global Warming Proof: Expansion of Antarctic sea ice
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Expanding ice ‘may keep Antarctic cool’ News.com.au April 01, 2013 GLOBAL
warming has led to more sea ice near Antarctica – a situation that
scientists say...
Wonderland and Radiative Forcing – Part Two
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In Wonderland, Radiative Forcing and the Rate of Inflation we looked at the
definition of radiative forcing and a few concepts around it: why the
instantan...
A Classic Tale of Global Warming Alarmism
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In his New York Times “Green” blog article “Running the Numbers on
Antarctic Sea Ice” Times reporter Justin Gillis generates a new index of
sea ice melt th...
CO2 is Logarithmic Explained
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I keep on saying that the “forcing” effects of CO2 are logarithmic while
the cooling response of the planet rises exponentially. I’m not the only
one sayi...
Background on Greenpeace/IPCC Author Sven Teske
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The news was recently broken, by Steve McIntyre, that the IPCC's recent
renewable energy report's most notable conclusion was based on a Greenpeace
report....
A New Home
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I've been threatening to do this for a while and have finally done it - moved to Wordpress. After just over 10,000 visits and just under 20,000 page views it...
The "Climate Data Derivatives" Market
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To understand how the CSIRO+BoM can make the assertion that "all of
Australia has experienced warming over the past 50 years" it is essential
to pay close ...
Phil Jones Interview
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Well, this is rather fantastic. BBC News had an interview with former CRU
head Phil Jones recently, and you will not believe the things Jones has
finally a...
Errors Matter #3: Preisendorfer’s Rule N
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In the last two days, I’ve argued that it’s insufficient for Mann et al. to
merely “get” a hockey stick shape some other way, but that they have to
show th...
Australia Joins China and Iran in Net Censorship - Nanny State Cometh
Pearls of Wisdom & Otherwise
Glenn Reynolds (USA - Instapundit.com): "I'll believe its a crisis when the people who tell me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis."
Nick himself (Counting Cats in Zanzibar blog): "Is it just me or has the spam-trade been entirely taken-over by performance poets on Arts-Council grants?"
Dr. Kiminori Itoh (Phd UN IPCC Scientist Award-winning environmental physical chemist): "When people know what the truth is the will feel deceived by science and scientists."
Dr. Stephen Schneider (Stanford professor of climatology, Lead author on many IPCC reports, in an interview with Discover Magazine 1989): "We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."
Former US Vice President Al Gore (now, chairman and co-founder of Generation Investment Management- a London-based business that sells carbon credits, in an interview with Grist Magazine 9 May 2006 re his book An Inconvenient Truth) "Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are..."
New readers may be interested to peruse two of my earlier posts concerning the Fear of Global Cooling which was popular in the late 1970's. I have posted a copy of a Newsweek article together with comments here and here.
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