Peter Gleick: Climate change is happening

A wide-ranging interview with Pacific Institute president and hydroclimatologist Peter Gleick. Gleick talks about global warming, the challenges climate change poses, the nature of climate change denial, why climate change education is important, and NCSE's new role in defending climate change education. When: 12/19/2011. Where: Oakland, CA.

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Education

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• NCSE
• Peter Gleick
• global warming
• climate change
• climate change denial
• climate change education
• global warming denial

[Dodger481]

One thing is for sure, Climate science is not a science. It is a religion. When you are willing to commite wire fraud and fake documents to discredit opposing points of view, you have lost all credibility. Time to get rid of the peter gleicks and get real scientists back in the forfront.

[randomxnp]

@TexasPropwash Context for "hide the decline" was it proved proxies invalid.Illegally deleting emails - to prevent others from knowing their corruption. Attacking outsiders - not to allow anyone to challenge their bad science. Corruption of peer review - silence other views.

Read Climate audit blog for 25 November last year for a couple of bits of context beyond the scope of 500 characters. That is a small part of the "context".

Put in context they were more damning, not less.

[mangankids]

This is a speech you would give to a completely uninformed rube. The more you learn about climate science, the less likely you are to believe scumbags like Peter Gleick and Michael Mann.

[mangankids]

Hey, Gleick! I deny that water vapor multiplies the meager warming of the doubling of co2 by three times. You are a propagandist and a criminal. Seppuku for you!

[randomxnp]

@space4099 "Little ice age has nothing to do with now. That period coincided with the shut down of the warm gulf stream"

Where on Earth did you get that from? What do you think can block off the Gulf Stream - did Atlantis rise again?

[SulliedMind]

Fraud. 

[thegoodlocust]

@space4099 The fact of the matter is that you were given a little bit of knowledge, you think you know far more than you do, and you've been running scared based on a few facts you don't understand and conclusions based on those non-contextualized facts.

Fear is an easy way to motivate people.

[thegoodlocust]

@space4099 The Little Ice Age has everything to do with if you understand the principle of hysteresis and how it relates to the climate. This is why 11 year cycles aren't as important as multi-century long solar minimums like the Maunder Minimum.

Additionally, species migration is very common. States are constantly fighting against non-native plants coming in - it has nothing to do with "climate change."

Quite simply, the world has been slowly warming as it recovered from the LIA.

[space4099]

@thegoodlocust Non native warm climate species that are surviving 2 and 3 zones further north despite the 11 year cycle of the sun, is this normal to you. Even during the suns lowest activity, the winters are not cold enough to kill them off as they once did. Little ice age has nothing to do with now. That period coincided with the shut down of the warm gulf stream allowing Europe to freeze. Also, there is a massive die off of cool climate species because they hate high summer temps.

[thegoodlocust]

@space4099 Again, the Little Ice Age lasted over 3 centuries. The plants up in that area would've long since died in that area from the cold. Hell, the trees up there are already stunted and barely surviving. Every state has new plants growing in there that "never" grew there before - it is called migration.

As for radiance/heat, your astronomer friend was referring to the 11 year solar cycle - not long term solar minimums like during the Little Ice Age.

Global warming is natural.

[space4099]

@thegoodlocust Repeat never grew, to cold to grow there, not present in any way, no evidence the plants had grow there period. Also, I thought the same thing at one time about the sun spot stuff so I talked to a friend who is an astronomer at Columbia in New York. To sum it all up he said that even though the suns radiance changes with the solar cycle the amount of heat difference is negligible. I will not argue with you on this further plants and nature have no agenda.

[thegoodlocust]

@space4099 "Never" grew is an awfully long time. I do agree that the planet has warmed - since the Little Ice Age (LIA) ended in the late 1800's.

Our sunspot records, actual observed records instead of worthless proxy data, show the sun increasing in activity up until about 1940-1950. All of that early warming was from the sun waking up after the LIA.

Since then we have cooling from 1940-1980, warming from 1980-2000 and it has been stagnant ever since.

This is all natural.