The Green Files > Climate change nonsense

[The Adam Smith Institute Blog] An awful lot of nonsense about climate change is spouted, as we know. I think the thing that bugs me the most though is that people don't seem to be understanding the very reports they rely upon for their logic and calls to action.

Previous [Previous] Global warming hogwash: Plans to save us are actually waste...

Next [Next] Abrupt Climate Change Could Drag Monsoon Over the Ocean ......

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[blogs.telegraph.co.uk blog listings.] 'Climate change is a laughing matter' chortles cruel, hilarious ...: He has made a fortune from this nonsense and so i suppose have the others who vociferously agree. They should do a little geological research going back a few hundred million years to realise this is just another cycle of nature.

[Michael Smith Blog] Climate Change: The dodgy temperature statements that the zealots like Rudd make compare today’s temperature with the Little Ice Age, a cool period that ended in the 1800s. We are clearly not living with 'the hottest years on record.' They are lying.

[American Conservative Daily] Climate Change “Morality” | American Conservative Daily: Worse, even the 942-page Waxman-Markey climate bill’s absurd target - a 17% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and 83% by 2050 - would have no detectable benefits, even if CO2 does cause climate change. Research climatologist Paul “Chip” Knappenberger calculates that even these draconian measures would result in global temperatures rising a mere

[Media Matters for America - County Fair] Fox's Napolitano mischaracterized NASA report to deny humans cause ...: -- The NASA report also quoted Robert Cahalan, a climatologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as saying that...[f]or the last 20 to 30 years, we believe greenhouse gases have been the dominant influence on recent climate change...and that...[t]he major change in Earth's climate is now really dominated by human activity, which has never happened before. -- mmfa

[FNQhome.com] Climate change: Andrew Bolt continues to spout crap: Bolt is regularly brought on as the conservative panel member, and I generally enjoy his contributions to the show. Unfortunately Bolt is a climate change denier and it occasionally pops up in discussion, as it did this morning.

[The Resilient Earth] Crank of the Week - June 1, 2009 - Lucy | The Resilient Earth: To keep costs down, make her a waifish comic book cutout in a vaguely manga style. Lucy leads a charmed life, traveling back and forth across America, always arriving at a new destination just in time for the next horrific man-made ecological disaster.

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Greenpeace's indefensible attack ...: On the other hand, if Waxman-Markey fails to get out of committee or fails to make it through both houses of Congress over the next 12 months or so, don’t expect any US climate action for a long time — the political mavens will not take failure as a sign to pursue a stronger bill.  And failure would mean the international negotiation process would be dead.  Equally important, why would China agree to a target if we don’t?

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Physical Science] Chaos : Good Math, Bad Math: 2) Ignoring that I don't understand the math, what are the necessary conditions for the weather to be unpredictable in the sense that arbitrarily small changes at one time will result in dramatic differences later? It seems intuitive (I know) that many systems which don't fit the technical criteria of chaos still ought to be unpredictable in the way that weather is.

[Julian Sanchez] Climate Change and Argumentative Fallacies: [...] Climate Change and Argumentative Fallacies Certain bad arguments work the same way””skim online debates between biologists and earnest ID afficionados armed with talking points if you want a few examples: The talking point on one side is just complex enough that it’s both intelligible””even somewhat intuitive””to the layman and sounds as though it might qualify as some kind of insight. (If it seems too obvious, perhaps paradoxically, we’ll tend to assume everyone on the other side thought of it themselves and had some good reason to reject it.) The rebuttal, by contrast, may require explaining a whole series of preliminary concepts before it’s really possible to explain why the talking point is wrong.

[Roman Catholic Blog] Roman Catholic Blog: Problem with Gay Adoption: Gays Don't Live as ...: They're claiming that without mankind's CO2 emissions it would not, on average, change very much over the next centuries, and with our CO2 it will. If you are also willing to give critiques of .

[Say Anything: Reader Blogs] New Oxfam Commercial Uses Sex To Tell You That Climate Change Will ...: I think the point of it Rob is if you go around spouting Global Warming nonsense, the tree-hugging liberal babes will strip for you.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: As Congress prepares for a weeklong recess next week, Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have armed themselves with a special weapon to deal with a possible Republican effort to delay getting a major piece of legislation out of committee by Memorial Day.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, , ,