1.Listen to the Scientists: Global Warming & the I.P.C.C.

#1 in a series about the "Abuse of Science." Michael MacCracken. Ph.D. is Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC.

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[FantasticBob7000]

Hundreds of people dead?? Are you kidding me Mr. Science? The world's population is close to 7 billion people. 999 dead people is about one percentage point of the global population minus 5 orders of magnitude! I see you ignore my pointing out your lapses in logic so all you have left is repetition about NATURAL disasters.

How do you plan to avert crop failures due to lack of chemical fertilizer & gas guzzling farm tractors?

You're a broken record at this point, as expected really.

[ExperienceCounts2]

@FantasticBob7000 Just as I thought, anti-science and willing to dismiss any possible science, statistics or any data that doesn't fit the anti-science talking points. 3 sigma events? Just wave your hand, they disappear. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people dead already? Just wave your hand, they're of no concern. Crop failures and extended droughts? Wave your hand and just say there's no proof that the crops wouldn't have failed anyway. Amazing how much science can disappear.

[FantasticBob7000]

@ExperienceCounts2 "Humans have died" <-- Timeless fact of life

"Extreme weather events" <-- Timeless fact of life

"outside the norm" <-- "norm" not defined nor proven to be ideal.

Unchanging climate incorrectly assumed to be desirable/possible.

Burning fossil fuels gave you the medical science & high living standards. Carbon taxes will devastate "Africa & Pakistan," countless would die because of this idiocy.

It's funny the most irrational people claim science on their side.

[ExperienceCounts2]

@FantasticBob7000 Humans have died. Several of those extreme weather events are so far outside the norm that they are almost certainly would not have happened without climate change. You may be able to sit calmly while Africans and Pakistanis die and dismiss the medical and epidemological science with a wave of a hand. More people will die. It's time for action. It hasn't gone unnoticed that you don't say you accept AGW theory, only that you accept that CO2 is a greenhouse gas.

[nahaymath]

Great video! Thank you for posting!

[FantasticBob7000]

@ExperienceCounts2 I never mentioned any conspiracy. I previously explained that the science doesn't support the alarmism, so I am clearly not anti-science.

Logical reasoning plays a central role in science. For an alleged science proponent you seem to think very unscientifically.

[ExperienceCounts2]

@FantasticBob7000 Yup, looks like your global conspiracy at it again, eh? Australia, USA, UK, EU, NZ, Germany, Spain, Japan, China, the UN, Africa, they're all conspiring to pretend that more extreme weather events and extended/sever droughts will cause additional illness and deaths. All those scientists and doctors and insurance company risk evaluators are all conspiring against the poor anti-science types. 

[FantasticBob7000]

@ExperienceCounts2 1%? "Could be responsible...?" I'm trying hard to see the threat to human life as we know it. Never mind the implied yet unsubstantiated peer review approval & consensus.

Your unproven worst case scenarios seem ridiculously unspectacular.

[ExperienceCounts2]

@FantasticBob7000 Impact of regional climate change on human health

Jonathan A. Patz, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Tracey Holloway & Jonathan A. Foley "Here we review the growing evidence that climate–health relationships pose increasing health risks under future projections of climate change and that the warming trend over recent decades has already contributed to increased morbidity and mortality in many regions of the world."

[ExperienceCounts2]

@FantasticBob7000 "Climate and mortality in Australia: retrospective

study, 1979–1990, and predicted impacts in five major cities in 2030"

C. S. Guest,*, K. Willson, A. J. Woodward, K. Hennessy, L. S. Kalkstein,

C. Skinner, A. J. McMichael