It is a common them by those who most dogmatically support the climate change agenda that the opposition are funded by big oil and similarly evil companies. There are potentially a number of angles to this viewpoint. If money does influence outcomes then we should see that where money on one side is hundreds of [...]
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Big Oil Funding of Climate Denial – An Examination of the Thesis
Posted by manicbeancounter on May 27, 2012
http://manicbeancounter.com/2012/05/27/big-oil-funding-of-climate-denial-an-examination-of-the-thesis/
IPCC’s 1990 Temperature Projections – David Evans against Mike Buckley
The following comments by Mike Buckley (referenced here) are more revealing about the state of climate science than any errors on Evan’s part. Surface Temperatures v lower tropospheric temperatures. As a beancounter (accountant) I like to reconcile figures. That is to account for the discrepancies. Jo Nova, Anthony Watts and others have found numerous reasons [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on May 7, 2012
http://manicbeancounter.com/2012/05/07/ipccs-1990-temperature-projections-david-evans-against-mike-buckley/
“Fake Skeptics” – a term of intolerance
Tamino, the handle of blogger Grant Foster, uses the term “Fake Skeptic” to describe those he believes to be wrong. I believe Foster’s first use of the term was in his “Skeptics: Real or Fake?” article of 28th June 2011. The term is “skeptic” is ambiguous. It is either John Cook’s definition of someone who [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on May 2, 2012
http://manicbeancounter.com/2012/05/02/fake-skeptics-a-term-of-intolerance/
The Morality of Lying and Exaggerating for Climate Science
In the Guardian today, James Garvey, argues that the actions of Peter Gleick in lying to obtain documents from the Heartland Institute could be justified in the interests of the wider good. He says The documents, if authentic, show that Heartland takes money – in secret – from people who have something to gain by [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on February 28, 2012
http://manicbeancounter.com/2012/02/28/the-morality-of-lying-and-exaggerating-for-climate-science/
Climate Change Damage Impacts – A story embellished at every retelling
Willis Eschenbach has a posting on a recent paper on climate change damage impacts. This is my comment, with hyperlinks and tables. My first reaction was “Oi– they have copied my idea!” Well the damage function at least! http://manicbeancounter.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/climate-change-policy-in-perspective-%E2%80%93-part-1-of-4/ Actually, this can be found by the claims of the Stern Review or AR4. Try looking [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on October 3, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/10/03/climate-change-damage-impacts-%e2%80%93-a-story-embellished-at-every-retelling/
Evangelical Christians and Climate Change Skepticism
Wm Briggs reports on a “forthcoming Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society paper “Making the climate a part of the human world”, in which University of British Columbia geographer Simon Donner argues that religion is the cause of global warming denial. ” (Pre-publication copy here) Simon Donner’s Views Donner’s Summary is “Ongoing public uncertainty about climate [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on August 27, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/08/27/evangelical-christians-and-climate-change-skepticism/
Outflanking Al Gore & other alarmists
At Wattupwiththat there is a proposal to build a database by Find(ing) every false, misleading, scary, idiotic, non-scientific statement they have made in the past twenty years. Create an index by name with pages listing those statement with links to the source. Keep it factual. Let their own words come back to haunt them. My [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on July 17, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/07/17/outflanking-al-gore-other-alarmists/
Show Warming After it Has Stopped Part 2
Last week I posted how Miles Allen had pulled off a trick to show warming in the 21st century after that trend had stopped in 1998. According to David Middleton at Watts up with That, the BBC’s Richard Black is using a similar decadal comparison to show that warming has continued. There are two Richard [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on July 11, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/07/11/show-warming-after-it-has-stopped-part-2/
Showing Warming after it has Stopped
Bishop Hill points to an article by Miles Allen that “examines how predictions he made in 2000 compare to outturn. The match between prediction and outturn is striking…..” Bishop Hill points out that this using HADCRUT decadal data. Maybe a quick examination of the figures will reveal something? Using the HADCRUT3 data here is are [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on July 4, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/07/04/showing-warming-after-it-has-stopped/
