A Few Things Ill Considered

CCW - All wet on sea level

Category: climate crock • debunking • multi-media

Peter is remixing his videos with improved sound quality. Here is "All wet on Sea Level":

Watch, learn, discuss!

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CCW - Birth of a Climate Crock

Category: climate crock • multi-media

From the "Climate Crock of the Week" videos:

For your viewing and discussing pleasures...

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CCW - 2009 Sea Ice update

Category: climate crock • multi-media

From greenman3610's excellent "Climate Crock of the Week" video series:

Offered for your viewing and discussing pleasure...

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"On vacation" open thread, play nice!

Category: general

So I will be in Fiji for a one week stop over on my way home from Tasmania to Vancouver and I do not expect to have much internet access and/or time. I think I will schedule a few "Climate Crock" posts for edumusement but otherwise no one will be minding the store here. (that unfortunately includes this Monday's "Another week of GW news" which will have to go up asap the week after next.)

So feel free to raise any topics for discussion here but try to play fair (that goes double for all you Turkish spampots out there!).

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Repower America

Category: politics

My fellow climate bloggers over at Desmog Blog have notified me and asked me to pass it on to AFTIC readers that there is a very cool new online push by former Vice-President Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection called the "Repower America Wall."

The idea is to have videos from thousands of everyday people - friends, neighbors and colleagues -as well as high-profile leaders from business, faith groups, politicians etc adding their voices to a collective call to action on climate change. These videos will be used as the basis of campaign ads on TV, print, billboards and online.

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Another week of GW News, November 1, 2009

Category: roundup

Sipping from the internet firehose...

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Reflecting on crakar and snowman

Category: general

(why am I thinking about cocaine now?)

So recently two very prolific climate contrarian commenters picked up their toys and went home. Skip did a nice piece on that surprise event.

crakar was one of my most prolific commenters, contributing about 100 comments per month since last December. He always struck me as a congenial fellow but he was definately antagonistic to the science of global warming and contributed mainly misinformation and misunderstanding. Nevertheless, I am actually a bit sorry to see him go on a personal level even though his presence was on balance a negative contribution.

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Another week of GW News: October 25, 2009

Category: roundup

Logging the Onset of the Bottleneck Years

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How to talk to crakar - point 5

Category: debunking

Crakar said:

The peer-reviewed literature is unanimous in finding that the residence-time of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 7 years. The UN's climate panel, however, chooses a complex and unsatisfactory definition of residence-time that allows it to pretend that the residence time is in fact 100 years. This is one of many respects in which the climate panel, while claiming to represent the "consensus" of scientific opinion, is in fact entirely at odds with the peer-reviewed literature.

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Posted by coby at 7:26 AM • 20 Comments

How to talk to crakar - point 4

Category: debunking

Crakar said:

Sea level is scarcely rising: The average rise in sea level over the past 10,000 years was 4 feet/century. During the 20th century it was 8 inches. In the past four years, sea level has scarcely risen at all. As recently as 2001, the IPCC had predicted that sea level might rise as much as 3 ft in the 21st century. However, this maximum was cut by more than one-third to less than 2 feet in the IPCC's 2007 report. Moerner (2004) says sea level will rise about 8 inches in the 21st century. Mr. Justice Burton, in the UK High Court, bluntly commented on Al Gore's predicted 20ft sea-level rise as follows: "The Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view." A fortiori, James Hansen's prediction of a 246ft sea-level rise is mere rodomontade. Sea-level rise since the beginning of 2006 has been negligible. Source: University of Colorado, 2009, release 4.

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