Infographic: The Anti-Science Climate Denier Caucus, 114th Congress Edition | ThinkProgress
03 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2014 congressional elections, climate alarmism, climate scepticism
Irrespective of whether you look upon climate sceptics as sceptics or heretics to be driven from the temple, this is a great graph of Who’s Who in Congress on climate alarmism.
Via Infographic: The Anti-Science Climate Denier Caucus, 114th Congress Edition | ThinkProgress.
There are different ways of measuring global warming
03 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, theory and measurement
Saving Civilization: 2009 vs 2015
27 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: activists, climate ala, climate alarmism, do gooders, expressive voting, green rent seeking, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
An absolutely excellent collection of climate alarmist statements by hacks whose jobs depended on fermenting confusion and moral panic
Five years ago, we were told that the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit was the last chance to save civilization. As the 2015 Paris summit approaches, the same sort of fear mongering is ramping up.
Earlier this week, a climate declaration published as a full-page ad in the international edition of New York Times tried to frighten us. It told us that:
the UN Climate Summit in Paris in December 2015 may be the last chance to agree a treaty capable of saving civilization; [bold added]
The declaration insisted that global warming may “cause the very fabric of civilization to crash.” It said charitable foundations should therefore divert resources away from other projects – presumably building hospitals and schools, preventing blindness and malaria, ensuring basic sanitation – in order to “save civilization” from the climate scourge.
Problem is, we’ve heard this before. Not so very long ago, the British Prime…
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American public concern about global warming is recovering with the economy
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, expressive voting
It was the Democrats and and independents who lost interest in global warning as the economy weakened.
Global warming is second bottom is a major political priority in the USA at this time
The Doomsday Clock is seriously awry
24 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
Things are worse than in the 1980s. What nonsense.
Overcoming Bias : Exposing Scientist Liberality
24 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: academic bias, activists, climate alarmism, expressive 13, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
If the public knew the truth, I expect two effects:
- The public would consider scientists to be less authoritative as a neutral source on policy questions, and
- Since scientists are respected, the public would become less conservative and more liberal.
What do climate alarmists do when the facts change
24 Jan 2015 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, global warming, political psychology, sociology of science, structure of scientific revolutions
Climate change and nuclear bombs set ‘doomsday clock’ on verge of midnight | The Guardian
23 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in defence economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, The Guardian
Whoever is equating global warming with the risk of thermonuclear war and the Cold War either wasn’t around or wasn’t paying attention to world politics prior to 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Richard Lindzen on the consensus in global warming science
23 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, Richard Lindzen
I looked up his 2011 House of Lords testimony:
- The global mean surface temperature is always changing. Over the past 60 years, it has both decreased and increased.
- For the past century, it has probably increased by about 0.6 degrees Centigrade (C). That is to say, we have had some global mean warming.
- CO2 is a greenhouse gas and its increase should contribute to warming. It is, in fact, increasing, and a doubling would increase the radiative forcing of the earth (mainly due to water vapour and clouds) by about 2 per cent.
- There is good evidence that man has been responsible for the recent increase in CO2, though climate itself (as well as other natural phenomena) can also cause changes in CO2.
To this extent, and no further, Linden was it is legitimate to speak of a scientific consensus. He later ended noting a disconnect where:
• The fact that there is widespread and even rigorous scientific agreement that complete adherence to the Kyoto Agreement would have no discernible impact on climate.
• This clearly is of no importance to the thousands of negotiators, diplomats, regulators, general purpose bureaucrats and advocates attached to this issue.
There are a lot of stunts in environmental politics:
• Clinton signed the Kyoto protocol in 1997 but never submitted it to the Senate. Does that 801 days of inaction on the great moral issue of our time leave him steeped in moral turpitude?
• Did Obama ever submit the Kyoto protocol to the senate? Does that leave him steeped in moral turpitude?
Global warming has little impact on agricultural production, even in the 2080s
23 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in experimental economics, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, global warming
HT: https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/514432333756514305?s=09
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