Category: Global Warming
“Overwhelming Scientific Evidence” yet again
| January 28, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Science |
Whenever I hear the phrase “overwhelming evidence” or “overwhelming scientific evidence,” my antennae go up and I know that someone is trying to sell me something. Last night, if you were watching the networks, you heard the following remark: I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.… more
Climategate at Wikipedia vs. Conservapedia
| December 21, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
Go here for Wikipedia’s treatment of Climategate and here for Conservapedia’s treatment of it. True to form, Wikipedia argues that the hacking of the CRU server changes nothing. Conservapedia, by contrast, treats Climategate as further confirmation that AGW is a ruse. Interesting is the following quote from their Climategate article: It was reported that, despite… more
Russia affected by Climategate
| December 18, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Global Warming |
The Russians apparently don’t know when to just play ball with these Climatologists who manipulate data attempting to evidence Global Warming. It seems that the tribalism of Climatologists, the political motivation desperate to prove Anthropogenic Global Warming, is lost on them. An article at RIONOVOSTI rep0rts that the Russians are also claiming that UK Climatologists… more
Climategate: Why Those Emails Are Lethal
| December 16, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Global Warming |
There’s an interesting article by Melanie Phillips at Spectator about why the emails from East Anglia, which sparked “Climategate,” really do change things. This is, of course, contrary to the assertion of folks like Al Gore who claim that the matter is settled and that these emails aren’t important to the whole situation. In reality… more
Do humans influence temperature records?
| December 8, 2009 | Posted by DLH under Climate change, Design inference, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science |
Can the methods of Intelligent Design be brought to bear to detect anthropogenic influence in temperature records? Core to the climate debate is the danger of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. We hear of “tipping points” promising coast lands drowning in glacial melt. Defining “very likely” as > 90%, the IPCC’s Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report… more
“The Totalities of Copenhagen”
| December 8, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
Bret Stevens’ article today in the WSJ, “The Totalities of Copenhagen,” again shows the strong parallels between the global warming debate and the evolution debate, especially with the proclivity of AGW and evolution advocates to quash all dissent. Consider, from his piece, the following characteristics of the AGW advocates: • Revolutionary fervor: There’s a distinct… more
Camille Paglia on Climategate before it was Climategate
| December 5, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
Some UD readers seem upset that I quote Sarah Palin on Climategate. Just so the wine-and-cheese elite feel as welcome here as the unwashed masses, here’s Camille Paglia on Climategate before it was Climategate (commenting to someone named Hanson): Hanson: I too grew up in upstate New York. I am an environmental groundwater geologist (who… more
Sarah Palin: Just say NO … to Copenhagen
| December 5, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
From Sarah Palin’s Facebook page: Mr. President: Boycott Copenhagen; Investigate Your Climate Change “Experts” The president’s decision to attend the international climate conference in Copenhagen needs to be reconsidered in light of the unfolding Climategate scandal. The leaked e-mails involved in Climategate expose the unscientific behavior of leading climate scientists who deliberately destroyed records to… more
Climategate: When Ann Coulter and Jon Stewart agree …
| December 4, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
… then you know that the fraud is real: Ann Coulter at Townhall Jon Stewart on the Daily Show more
New Climategate/Hitler Video…Comedy Central Scoops the Networks
| December 3, 2009 | Posted by scordova under Global Warming, Humor |
Bill reported earlier about a Global Warming/Hitler video which was released (10/3/2009) before the climategate scandal broke out: More Global Warming Fraud Humor A new improved video has been released to incorporate the climategate scandal. Version 2, is much better, imho. Hitler was behind global warming-climategate more
Climategate Quote of the Day
| December 3, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and… more
Truth and Science
| December 1, 2009 | Posted by DonaldM under Climate change, Culture, Darwinism, Ethics, Global Warming, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Religion, Science |
It is almost axiomatic in our culture that the pronouncements of Science are synonymous with Truth. This received wisdom is so prevalent that whenever media reports begin with the words “Scientists have found that…[fill in the blank]“, whatever follows is widely believed by the public to be unassailable fact. So revered is Science and so… more
Ed Begley Jr. Interviewed By Stuart Varney on Fox News
| November 29, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Culture, Education, Global Warming, Science |
Here is actor Ed Begley Jr. being interviewed by Stuart Varney on Fox News: Ed Begley Jr. remarks “I don’t think geologists should write papers about being an actor or newscaster…nor should uh…Don’t get your information from me folks or any newscaster, get it from people with PhD after their name.” So, if geologists cannot… more
Climategate: And finally, the source codes!
| November 27, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Global Warming |
[Adapted from a close colleague's email:] This article by Marc Sheppard contains a technical discussion of details of some of the source codes uncovered by the recent hack of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit e-mail servers. These computer codes are the ones used to create the global climate forecasts predicting a warming… more
More Global Warming Fraud Humor
| November 25, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Global Warming |
[From a colleague:] “Back in 2004, the German-Austrian film ‘Downfall’ was released. The film depicted Hitler’s last days in his Berlin bunker. Since then, the portion of the film where a detached-from-all-reality Hitler goes on a tirade — lashing out and finally conceding all is lost — has been modified to poke fun at everything… more
More on ClimateGate
| November 24, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Global Warming |
Here’s today’s Wall Street Journal on ClimateGate: Global Warming With the Lid Off The emails that reveal an effort to hide the truth about climate science. ‘The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the U.K., I think… more
Climategate
| November 21, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Global Warming |
Here’s more on “Climategate.” My favorite line: “And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW [anthropogentic global warming] can be written off as a crank,… more
Put Up, or Shut Up!
| November 20, 2009 | Posted by PaV under Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
There’s breaking news today about the Hadley CRU in England which had its emails and data banks hacked into. CRU is the acronym for ‘Climate Research Unit’. Seems that some of the emails show some possible collusion when it came to producing and supporting data that didn’t fit into GW science. Some interesting quotes. How… more
Keeping “Big Environment” Honest
| October 13, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Global Warming, Science |
“Big Environment,” “Big Government,” “Big Business,” “Big Science” — all involve huge sums of money, leave a money trail, and require independent watchdogs to ask the tough questions. We noted the upcoming documentary NOT EVIL JUST WRONG here at UD last week. Here’s the latest (it made the top of Drudge): www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-fzVH6v_U more
What happened to global warming?
| October 10, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Global Warming, Science |
By Paul Hudson Climate correspondent, BBC News This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.… more