And climate advocates wonder why the public is confused about global warming. Thus writes David Biello in SciAm: Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know precisely what temperatures or greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere constitute a danger. Biello goes on to survey leading climate scientists on various threshold levels, who bascially throw up…Continue Reading…
At some point, ClimateGate will run its course in the coming weeks and people will start paying attention to James Hansen’s first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, due out in December. The odd thing is that mainstream climate advocates might get a change of topic with Hansen, but it won’t necessarily be to their liking….Continue Reading…
As Roger Pielke Jr. rightly notes, this Times story about lost temperature data is “old news.” It also quotes Roger from one of his old blog posts, without attributing it as such. This is not cool, because it looks like a fresh quote in the story. In a comment over at Roger’s site, I mention…Continue Reading…
This exchange between Republican Senator James Inhofe and Deborah Solomon in the Sunday NYT magazine is priceless. Inhofe: Can you tell me one reason to close Gitmo? NYT: Because it’s on foreign soil, where prisoners don’t have the same legal rights as prisoners tried here, and we want to apply the same laws to everybody….Continue Reading…
That’s the title of a profile I wrote of James Hansen, which is published today in Nature Reports: Climate Change. (Publishing cycles can be cruel, sometimes.) Hansen’s first book, Storms of my Grandchildren, is due out in December. When I met with him a few weeks ago to talk about the book’s themes, as well…Continue Reading…
So after reading Monbiot’s latest on climategate, I wondered if he was howling into a wilderness. (He did say he never felt so alone.) Now I see that Tom Yulsman has heard the call and who knows how many others have too. But will they be too fearful to respond, because Morano is lying in…Continue Reading…
Well, if nothing else comes of climategate, we at least know that Monbiot has been revealed as an enabling “delayer,” now that snippets from his recent column are being displayed in a banner headline over at Climate Depot. Those of you who are familiar with the twisted logic of a certain climate blogger will get…Continue Reading…
My Tuesday post at Nature’s Climate Feedback is up:
It remains to be seen how the CRU hacker story will play out. If it’s an inside job, or there’s another data drop, then all bets are off. But in the meantime, I think it’s a mistake for the aggrieved side to focus on tactics. I mean, why go there if the bigger picture remains…Continue Reading…