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Barry Brooks, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at the University of Adelaide, has started a blog, Brave New Climate. Check it out. Of particular interest to Deltoid readers is his post on David Evans. After his claims about...
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Category: Global Warming
Posted on: August 12, 2008 7:06 AM, by Tim Lambert
Barry Brooks, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at the University of Adelaide, has started a blog, Brave New Climate. Check it out.
Of particular interest to Deltoid readers is his post on David Evans. After his claims about a missing hot spot signature were refuted, it seems that Evans responded not with a correction, but by repeating them again.
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I'm from Adelaide and heard that radio exchange Prof Brook links to. Matt & Dave (ABC 891 hosts) have been running sceptical memes for months now on their show, and were pathetically acquiescent to Evans when he was spouting his rubbish. So it was good to have the other side of the argument put - they actually seemed convinced by the end of Brook's interview, despite having pushed the "Earth hasn't warmed since 1998" line hard at the start.
I also went to the first of Brook's Climate Change Q&A seminars, for which the podcasts and PDF can be got from his blog (defintely worth listening to based on what I heard live last Fri, and he's covering the full gamut of issues over 6 seminars). Strangely (or not?), none of those bold denialists that lurk around Bolt's blog and even here at Deltoid were will to get up after his talk and put "the tough questions" to the Prof.
Gee, isn't that a shock.
Posted by: George G | August 12, 2008 8:11 AM
Tim Curtin posted a 6-point question-begging comment on that post, to which Prof. Brook replied with a beautifully concise and lucid explanation of all six points.
Posted by: jre | August 12, 2008 3:11 PM
Curtin and his "insulation violates the laws of thermodynamics" has been shot down in flames several times already but I'm sure he'll just repeat it again. I see that Joe Cambria, the second member of the Troll Triplets has now shown up:
Posted by: Tim Lambert | August 13, 2008 8:10 AM
Bingo! Tim Curtin at August 12, 2008 07:00pm.
Posted by: Bernard J. | August 13, 2008 9:31 AM
Considering the third question was pretty dumb (and the others weren't much better) I was expecting Curtin to continue in a trolling style and he didn't disappoint. Curtin has an unusual and perhaps new type of comment to work out a troll for in Prof. Brook's latest comment. There is the potential for Curtin to invent a new kind of troll.
Posted by: Chris O'Neill | August 13, 2008 11:50 AM
Ahem. Permit me to solicit everyone's support for the Tim Curtin letter-to-Nature project. As Prof. Brook has usefully pointed out, Curtin has the opportunity to put his insights regarding Domingues et al. to devastating effect by submitting them to the journal as a formal rebuttal. This is so important that I am now urging that we help keep Curtin on track by refusing to discuss anything else with him until he has gotten that letter in.
Posted by: jre | August 13, 2008 9:40 PM
No, it's just a repeat of the Great Global Warming Conspiracy troll. Nothing new there.
Posted by: Chris O'Neill | August 14, 2008 10:26 AM
Chris O'Neill:
If you are going to link over to the fever swamps, please tell us in a mouseover. I'm going to be running late this morning because I need another shower visiting Marohasy's site. Shame on you, sir. For shame!
Best,
D
Posted by: Dano | August 14, 2008 10:33 AM
Thanks for the plug Tim, I appreciate it.
Posted by: Barry Brook | August 15, 2008 10:09 AM