Climate Denial Crock of the Week - That 1500 Year Thing

Intelligence Squared IQ2 debate
March 14, 2007

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Proposition: "Global Warming Is Not a Crisis."
For the motion: Michael Crichton, Richard S. Lindzen, Philip Stott
Against the motion: Brenda Ekwurzel, Gavin Schmidt, Richard C.J. Somerville

Before the debate: 30% of the audience agreed with the motion; 57% against; 13% undecided.

After the debate: 46% agreed with the motion; 42% against; 12% were undecided.

-14 F windchill here, so I'm having a hard time swallowing either a) AGW exists or b) it isn't actually a good thing.

I'm also struggling w/ the lack of credibility for U of East Anglia apologists, and the massive media blitz on their behalf.

Then there is the political aspect, which tends toward a Euro-centralization of worldwide economic policies characterized by what appears to be a sad attempt to assuage European guilt - a drastic redistribution of wealth to former European colonies.

Devastating videos to the denial industry.  It's too bad you acn't get these videos played on major news networks or PBS. Note that denier complaints always revolve around scientist conspiracies, NEVER around the science in these videos.

they're starting to hate me.

tinyurl com/IPCC-greed-1

search google: skeptical science

"1998 is not the hottest year on record"

This is why:
"A new independent analysis of the HadCRUT record sheds light on this discrepancy. The analysis is by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) who calculated global temperature, utilising a range of sources including surface temperature measurements, satellites, radiosondes, ships and buoys. They found recent warming has been higher than that shown by HadCRUT."

part 1

"This is because HadCRUT is sampling regions that have exhibited less change, on average, than the entire globe. This result is not unexpected. NASA GISS found a major contributor to the record hot 2005 was the extreme Arctic warming (Hansen 2006). As there are few meterological stations in the Arctic, NASA extrapolated temperature anomalies from the nearest measurement stations."

part 2

"They found the estimated strong Arctic warmth was consistent with infrared satellite measurements and record low sea ice concentrations."

(Quote) "GISS and NOAA both find 2005 is the hottest year on record (with 2009 possibly on track to pip 1998 as the second hottest year on record)."

part 3

More dirt on this whole thing comes in the form of Maurice Strong. He's a globalist set on a one world government. He had a seat in the UN. He set up the IPCC for a global government, but becmae subject of investigation in the oil for food scandal. He's currently sheltered in China while this was being "investigated".

Al Gore also wants global government.

"[...] and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global government and global agreements," - Al Gore

It's a NWO agenda.