Ozone revisionism
Category: CFCs and ozone
The claim that Montreal Protocol was easy because there was a CFC substitute in hand is simply wrong.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:12 PM • 8 Comments •
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Category: CFCs and ozone
The claim that Montreal Protocol was easy because there was a CFC substitute in hand is simply wrong.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:12 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Monckton
Monckton responding to an email about how volcanoes cause ozone depletion: I'm not familiar enough with the inner workings of the general-circulation models, so I'm not sure how it is that the ozone hole appears only over the Antarctic. One...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:12 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: CFCs and ozone
I wrote earlier about John Ray's profoundly ignorant arguments about ozone depletion. Now he's back, posting something even sillier: Despite all the information you may have read, there is not one shred of supportable evidence that CFCs have found their...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:52 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: CFCs and ozone
William Connolley lists another ten global warming myths. PZ Myers delivers a righteous smackdown to Paul from Wizbang for Paul's profoundly ignorant attacks on evolution. (Paul's responds by calling evolution a cult.) As well as having totally demolished* the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:09 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Brignell
There has been quite a bit of reaction to my post on Milloy. Michael Peckham writes "Milloy's criticism may be right some of the time, but only when it fits his preconceived anti-regulatory agenda. " John Quiggin, at Crooked...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:37 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Milloy
Apart from the one or two posts about John Lott I've also posted about ozone depletion denial, creationism and astroturf. All these topics, as well as Lott, come together in the person of Steve Milloy. Milloy runs a website...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:04 PM • 3 Comments • 6 TrackBacks
Category: CFCs and ozone
I wrote earlier about ozone depletion deniers John Ray and Sylvain Galineau. I've found another such denier and his name is John Lott. Lott wrote a positive review* of Environmental Overkill, a book written by Dixy Lee Ray with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:59 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: CFCs and ozone
I while ago I wrote on John Ray's claims that environmentalists were wrong about ozone depletion. I think it is quite clear that subsequent research has vindicated the concerns of scientists about ozone depletion. The refusal of Ray to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:36 PM • 30 Comments •
Category: CFCs and ozone
On his blog, John Ray makes a remarkable claim: "Greenies" are wrong about ozone depletion. He writes: In 1991, the Greenies got everyone to ban CFC chemicals. CFCs were the normal gases that has always been used to make...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:35 PM • 12 Comments •