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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Back in July, David Evans had on opinion piece in the Australian claiming:
The greenhouse signature is missing. ... The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics.
This is wrong. The hot spot is not the signature, since you get a hot…
It seems like extreme gullibility must be a job requirement for reporters at Channel Nine. You might recall how Adam Shand uncritically accepted everything he was told by global warming skeptics and aggressively disputed the mainstream science. Tara Brown has gone down the same path on Channel…
Jeremy Jacquot has written a three part debunking of the claims in Joane Nova's "Skeptic's Handbook": Part 1: increasing CO2 won't make much difference, Part 2: warming has stopped and ice cores show that CO2 increases do not cause warming, and Part 3: the hot spot is missing. If all this seems…
The Australian continues to display its contempt for science, scientists and the scientific method. They've published this piece of AGW denial by David Evans. Last time I looked at Evans he was saying that new evidence since 1999 had changed his mind about global warming, with this new evidence…
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.
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.
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](http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/04/plonk.php)
[has now shown up](http://bravenewclimate.com/2008/08/11/australias-most-powerful-climate-…):
>Judging by your own history Wart and the hate site you hang around I'm not surprised you're trying to now make the case that humans were always vegans. Is that what Delusionatoid is now trying to peddle as science is it? I guess the 6,000 year old earth theory is coming up next as I'm sure between you, shiny and Mergatroid Delagardo a case could be made for it. Just blame Roger Bate if it all goes wrong like Shiny usually does.LOL.
Bingo! Tim Curtin at August 12, 2008 07:00pm.
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.
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.
No, it's just a repeat of the Great Global Warming Conspiracy troll. Nothing new there.
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
Thanks for the plug Tim, I appreciate it.