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
As with all things there is a humble story to be told. The origins are unremarkable in themselves, but the events they sparked had repercussions that shook a small corner of the internet. And soon those events where known by many more people.
So what was this unassuming event that started things off? Well a student, of what some may call a real science, and others may refer to as not being a proper science, was hosting a BlogTV show. And as he was often want to do he was looking for interesting people to co-host with via skype.
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During my discussions with a lot of climate change sceptics I’ve often heard that CO2 is plant food. And that putting more in the atmosphere is a good thing for plants, as they will grow faster and produce more food.
Which is a very good point. As you can see from the video from CO2Science, plants can indeed grow a lot faster if you give them more CO2. And this is exactly what a lot of growers do in their greenhouses. They add CO2 to stimulate the growth of their crops and increase their yields.
So what people are saying with this argument is that it’s just another fertilizer, like nitrogen. So you should get the same benefits if you increase a nutrient. But, with nitrogen we do see that there is a point where if you add to much nitrogen, the plants get more susceptible to pests. As they will grow so fast they cannot develop their defences properly or fast enough. And there’s even a point where to much nitrogen will kill plants.
Professors Andrew Dessler from Texas A&M and Richard Lindzen from MIT debated the scientific evidence of anthropogenic global warming at the University of Virginia School of Law. The above debate is long, with a duration of almost two hours, but well worth a watch. It’s a perfect example of how you conduct an excellent debate on climate change, and how the…
I’ve been active on YouTube for almost a year, and I’ve been producing videos for about half a year. For me it all started with following a few channels and joining the discussions.
SpaceRip is one of the channels where I contribute now and then. And the last video I had a serious discussion on with another user was the video “Global Temperature Puzzle”:
The discussion I had on that video took the better part of two weeks and was triggered by the following comment:
An interaction between me and Lee caused him to block me when I was criticising statements he made.
The 10:10 campaign video is a PR nightmare if I ever saw one. This commercial is actually from the organisation 10:10 to promote their goal of voluntarily reducing 10% of your CO2 emissions each year.
The script for this commercial was written by Richard Curtis (writer of for example Blackadder, Four Weddings and Notting Hill). A very well known comedic writer. So the idea behind this commercial was trying to make a funny video about what they are trying to achieve.
