China has been, and still is, a wild card to us westerners. There is a fundamental difference in how we run our countries and view the world. And which is ironically allowing China to take the lead in things like building a green economy and infrastructure. Although it’s also one of the worst offenders with pollution and it’s output of…
Climate change is not just about what might go wrong or what’s wrong. But also about the opportunities we have to get it right and to improve our existing lifestyle and infrastructure.
How the Power Grid Gets Smart: The Electric InterGrid – part 1
Due to time constraints I won’t be able to continue my separate blog Virere which covers environmental news and lifestyle changes to make your life greener. As this subject, and the time I had for this, has been transferred to this blog and my YouTube channel. Currently I’m in the process of transferring all the content that’s posted on Virere…
After writing my article How BBC Warmists Abuse The Science – A Response I thought what the heck lets join the conversation on Watts Up With That. And I posted the following comment:
Seriously? You post an excerpt from a column where one of the arguments is “Even the weather has turned against them, showing that all the computer models based on the assumption that rising CO2 means rising temperatures have got it wrong.”. Which can be paraphrased as it’s snowing outside so global warming is not happening… Cold spells can happen, even when the planet is warming up.
However, it’s again someone who’s work is being used which also says that second hand smoking and asbestos don’t cause cancer. And even has been critical on the theory of evolution saying “rest their case on nothing more than blind faith and unexamined a priori assumptions”.
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I probably shouldn’t for the sake of my blood pressure, but I do keep taps on what people on the other side of the debate are saying, especially the more vocal ones. I use it to keep myself appraised of any contrary evidence and queues me on possible cases where a critical look at evidence might be needed.
But I have to say this, most of the time what is being put out by the “sceptics” is severely lacking. Errors and misrepresentation galore, a lot of it being unintentional as climatology is a difficult subject. But often it has its root in what, to me, looks like intentional misdirection and butchering of the science.
And the latest butchering was promoted in a post on the blog Watts Up With That, a website that has a reputation of misdirection and scientific errors:
In this excellent BBC Horizon episode Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in the key scientific theory of global Warming has been eroded. With excursions into the subjects of the safety of GM food and the denial of the medical fact that HIV causes AIDS to gain a…
Today I’ll be working again behind the scenes to facilitate a new SkepticTV episode. In this week’s SkepticTV we’ll be discussing why Creationists feel the need to be so dishonest in support of their claims. We would like to take some calls during the show, so if you want to call in to ask a question, defend creationism or simply…
I’m amazed that each winter I hear this, “It’s cold, so global warming must not be real”. Do I have to remind people that generally speaking it is colder during the winter months than it is during the summer? And that cold spells do happen, regardless of any current climate trend? But I can understand the confusion a big cold spell like this can cause.
A lot of the confusion comes from the fact that most people think that Global Warming means that it gets warmer every single year, for any given month in a year and at every single location on the globe. Unfortunately it’s not that simple.
For example if you take a look at the global temperature records in the past you can see it’s not a smooth graph with every year being warmer than the previous. And you see exactly the same pattern for local temperature records. So if a few subsequent years haven’t been warmer, or you get a couple of frigid winters in a row, it does not mean that global warming has stopped. Or even isn’t happening.
Yesterday was the first show of SkepticTV with as hosts AngryWomble, csbair, lefayad1991, SoundOfScilence and Yoshemo. They introduced themselves and gave a short introduction about what the SkepticTV show will entail. They then continued with the subject of the show “What The Movies Get Wrong”.
With a few side excursions we covered a wide range of movies, among them were the Jurassic Park movies, Star Trek, The Day After Tomorrow, The Core, Independence Day and Star Wars.
This friday I’ll be working behind the scenes to facilitate the first broadcast of SkepticTV. In the first programme, we will introduce ourselves and ask what the film industry gets wrong, and the myths that have resulted. Watch this video on YouTube
