Global Warming Skepticism: The Freedomain Radio Interview with Warren Meyer

"Millions of lives hang in the balance" - The Scientific, Economic and Political Realities of Climate Change and Global Warming - an Interview with Warren Meyer of http://www.climate-skeptic.com

Freedomain Radio: http://www.freedomanradio.com

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• warming
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[ashane77]

The most frustrating problem I run into when dealing w/Goron's true believers is that they say stuff like:

"Well, even if manmade global warming is a little overblown, its still a good idea for us to get off of fossil fuels."

"Its better to be safe than sorry."

And similar garbage...as well as those who refuse to even consider they've been misled by alarmist scientists, politicians, and media figures. Maybe it'll take economic devastation to get people's priorities straight.

[stefbot]

Sure, but that is of course true of any scare story - "Give me a million dollars or your head will explode in 10 years..." :(

[davenetdog]

You do not have to worry about the environment.

There is absolutely nothing , NOTHING you can do short of moving the Sun or Earth's orbit, that can have an effect on the the climate.

Not even a Thermonuclear War will change the climate. Basically a waste of time.

[ozzycriss]

Viking Age farm settlements in Greenland = the planet used to be warmer . And guess what the vikings did nt own cars , or did they ?

Propoganda works very well on the weak minded , use soviet style mantras and slogans over and over and the weak can be trained to parrot anything .

Calling peole deniers is a old tatic , ie smear someones point with a nasty term/word

[TqMURDOCK]

After weeding through all the ideological banter I managed to find 12 assertions of fact. All of them wrong, although interestingly two were preceded by accurate descriptions of basic science.

I posted a list of rebutalls at the SkepticalScience page on Facebook (can't seem to post the link to it - I guess YouTube and Facebook don't like each other)

[destronia123]

LOL! It's called the Industrial Revolution, idiots! At no other time in earth's history has so much sequestered carbon been released into the atmosphere. Stupid deniers.

[15hmael]

@ozzycriss If your referring to the medieval warming period (shown in figure 7.1c on p. 202 IPCC First Assessment Report of 1990) from Dr .H.H. Lamb's initial work, the data was collected from northern Europe and primarily central England . Mann's work a decade later used data from the entire Northern Hemisphere.The result, medieval hump gone, and the famous hockey stick appears.Climate skeptic , Dr.Muller ,confirmed this data earlier this year to the chagrin of his supporters.

[sfk2001]

@15hmael spot on lad spot on

[15hmael]

Global warming skeptic , Dr. Richard Muller, set up the Berkley Earth Surface Temperature (B.E.S.T) project funded by Bill Gates and the Koch brothers among others to deal with the problem of the urban heat island effect, unfit weather stations etc. Anthony Watts stated,"I'm prepared to accept whatever results they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong." Guess what? The results coincide with the climate science data you laugh at. Oh.. and Watts, didn't accept the results.

[OldSchopenhauer]

@ProtoCosmos Because it is alarmism.

[Adlasyn]

"There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics."

[ProtoCosmos]

Also, Stef, I recently watched a documentary on YT about " Global Dimming" ( which I didn't hear being addressed in this discussion).Supposedly it effects our measurements of climate change. It suggests a rather disturbing quandary ... that we're becoming dependent on man-made atmospheric pollution to stave off even far greater warming. If you're familiar with it, or if you could check it out, I'd be interested to hear what you'd have to say about it.

[ProtoCosmos]

Also, Stef, I recently watched a documentary on YouTube about " Global Dimming" ( which I didn't hear being addressed in this discussion).Supposedly it effects our measurements of climate change. It suggests a rather disturbing quandary ... that we're becoming dependent on man-made atmospheric pollution to stave off even far greater warming. If you're familiar with it, or if you could check it out, I'd be interested to hear what you'd have to say about it.

[ProtoCosmos]

It's interesting that you guys take issue with the term "Global Warming Deniers" , yet when referring to your dissenters, you're perfectly fine with using the term " Alarmists". There are less than virtuous motives on both side,right? Some commenters take exception to the " Better Safe Than Sorry" mentality, but to me it seems wise to treat the dissenting side of your arguments with more consideration, for we do not have a spare Earth on which to conduct the experiment.