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February 8, 2010
Category: roundup
Posted by coby at 7:45 AM • 0 Comments
February 3, 2010
Category: editorial • humour • other blogs
ONCE TWO SCIENTISTS--it hardly matters what sort--were walking before dinner beside a pleasant pond with their friend, a reporter for the Dispatch, when they happened to notice a bird standing beside the water."I am a skeptic," said the first scientist. "I demand convincing evidence before I make an assertion. But I believe I can identify that bird, beyond all reasonable doubt, as a duck." The journalist nodded silently at this assertion.
"I also am a skeptic," said the second, "but evidently of a more refined sort, for I demand a much higher standard of evidence than you do. I see no irrefutable evidence to back up your assertion that this object before us is even a bird, let alone positively identifying it as a duck." The journalist raised his eyebrow sagely.
Posted by coby at 7:56 AM • 98 Comments
February 2, 2010
Category: mainstream media • other blogs
As ridiculous as that headline is, it is the theme du jour in the denialosphere....
The chair of the UN's panel on climate change Dr Rajendra Pachauri was written a "racy" romance novel and therefore the IPCC AR4 is unreliable propaganda. Um...okay.
If I wanted the denialists to win the PR battle, I would quietly but urgently try to warn them about going a bit too far in the mud slinging ad hominems.
(see ClimateAudit and WUWT piling on this Telegraph "news" item.)
Posted by coby at 8:40 PM • 37 Comments
February 1, 2010
Category: debunking • sceptic guide
A commenter just asked on the original "One or two warm years is not Global Warming" thread if the article is still true five years later.
Certainly the logic of it, that the temperature trend is unequivocally warming and we are not claimig global warming because of a record or two, still holds, but I thought it might be interesting to revisit the specific data points I raised in it and ask if they are still true.
Posted by coby at 7:13 PM • 20 Comments
January 31, 2010
Category: roundup
Posted by coby at 10:03 PM • 10 Comments
January 26, 2010
Category: climate crock • debunking • multi-media • other blogs
The Oregon petition seems to be getting a small revival in the press and blogosphere lately, including in the comments here. I don't have a guide article for that, though I suppose I should. So much has been written about it, I don't know if I have anything original to say.
Posted by coby at 9:00 AM • 141 Comments
January 25, 2010
Category: roundup
Posted by coby at 7:37 AM • 0 Comments
January 18, 2010
Category: roundup
Posted by coby at 8:16 AM • 0 Comments
January 15, 2010
Category: multi-media
Just in case anyone out there has10 more minutes they are prepared to throw down the bottomless CRU Email hack hole, I found this YouTube video rather thourough and amusing:
Posted by coby at 6:02 PM • 3 Comments
January 14, 2010
Category: mainstream media
Apropos the recent spate of commenting about the hacked CRU emails, Kevin Trenberth has an article at The Daily Camera.
He makes this remark about his constantly mischaracterized "travesty" quote ("The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't."):
Posted by coby at 1:00 PM • 8 Comments
