Top 5 tall tales
Cliff
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"Media Mayhem: Top 5 tall tales by climate change deniers in 2009"
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Here are five of the top 10 tall tales in the 2009 climate change denier�s
storybook. I want your help with the rest of the list for next week�s column.
Let me know in the comments section which ones I�m missing.
Temperatures have dropped over the last decade.
Tall tale: Yellow journalist Matt Drudge peddled this whopper with sensational
headlines in 2008. This year, it was repeated so many times that it turned into
the kind of contrarian cocktail party factoid that can�t be disputed by mere ...
facts. The premise is simple: Draw a line from a particularly hot thermometer
level (in this case, the one-time record hot year of 1998) to any lower
temperature that came later. Voila! You�ve got a downward trend!
....
Al Gore�s pushing the climate change myth so he can get rich.
Tall tale: Gore�s political enemies often gripe that he�s made a lot of money
since losing the 2000 selection. They�re convinced not only that those were
ill-gotten gains, but that the main reason he�s pushing now for climate
legislation is so that he can make even more money on carbon credits, or green
energy technology, or both, or something. The suspicions reached their apex in a
congressional committee hearing when a backbench Republican from Gore�s home
state of Tennessee interrogated him on his investments.
While Gore and his defenders argue that the former vice president simply is
putting his money where his mouth is, leading climate change denier Steven
Milloy stated the objection pithily in Human Events: �It is probably more
accurate to say that he is putting his mouth where his money is.�
....
Many climate scientists don�t believe in anthropogenic climate change.
Tall tale: Every time you turn around, there�s another petition supposedly
signed by skeptical climate scientists. First there was the list of �500
Scientists Whose Research Contradicts Man-Made Global Warming Scares,� put
together by the anti-climate-action Heartland Institute. Then, there were more
than 30,000 scientists who supposedly signed the �Oregon Petition.� And then,
just before this month�s Copenhagen climate summit, 141 �Science and Technology
Experts well Qualified in Climate Science� signed an open letter to the U.N.
secretary-general demanding �convincing evidence� that climate change is
occurring.
....
It�d be a heck of a lot cheaper to fix things after the fact.
Tall tale: The economist and the journalist who wrote the spectacularly
successful Freakonomics published the followup this fall: SuperFreakonomics.
It�s filled with all kinds of errors about climate change, among them that the
Earth is cooling, and that solar panels and trees make the Earth hotter.
The most entertaining of bit of unsubstantiated conjecture is that, rather than
reducing greenhouse gases, it would be more effective and less expensive to
suppress climate change through �geo-engineering� -- by pumping vast amounts of
sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to reflect away heat.
....
Climategate discredited the �myth� of anthropogenic climate change.
Tall tale: E-mails stolen from a British climate research center proved once and
for all that an insider gang of climate scientists fudged data showing that the
Earth is getting colder. The proof? Two or three missives out of thousands
between leading climate scientists. In one, a researcher talks about using the
�Nature trick� to �hide the decline�; deniers say that proves scientists were
hiding temperature declines from the public for years (see #2, above). In
another, a scientist says: "I have been fiddling with the best way to illustrate
the stable nature of the medieval warm period.� Hmmm. �Fiddling.� Sounds
suspicious doesn�t it?
....
So I want your help with the rest of the list for next week�s column. Let me
know in the comments section which ones I�m missing.
....
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Cliff
<spamt...@AT.frankenexpress.de> wrote:
>Cliff <Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-change/stories/media-mayhem-top-5-tall-tales-by-climate-change-deniers-in-2009
>> "Media Mayhem: Top 5 tall tales by climate change deniers in 2009"
>> [
>> Here are five of the top 10 tall tales in the 2009 climate change denier�s
>> storybook. I want your help with the rest of the list for next week�s column.
>> Let me know in the comments section which ones I�m missing.
>>
>> Temperatures have dropped over the last decade.
>>
>> Tall tale: Yellow journalist Matt Drudge peddled this whopper with sensational
>> headlines in 2008. This year, it was repeated so many times that it turned into
>> the kind of contrarian cocktail party factoid that can�t be disputed by mere ...
>> facts. The premise is simple: Draw a line from a particularly hot thermometer
>> level (in this case, the one-time record hot year of 1998) to any lower
>> temperature that came later. Voila! You�ve got a downward trend!
>
>This is a fucktard statement.
>Which time period do YOU prefer?
>1850 to 1998?
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I don�t think so: The cooling myth has been debunked so many times, and so
easily, that it�s painful. You don�t have to be a climatologist to understand
that temperatures rise and fall all year, every year; a climbing trend can
include steps down. Trends can best be identified by looking at moving averages.
For example, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency readings show that the
five-year averages for global temperatures have risen by more than half-a-degree
Celsius since 1980. And before the denialists reading this declare NOAA to be
part of a conspiracy, consider that the tall tale relies on the same data in the
first place.
In October, the cooling myth was debunked by an Associated Press article in
which the writer presented the data to four statisticians without telling them
what it was about. Each concluded the cooling interpretation bogus. On Dec. 8,
the World Meteorological Organization reported that this decade has been the
warmest on record, which would have been difficult if temperatures had been
cooling.
Media spin: To their credit, few national mainstream journalists swallowed the
global cooling story whole. But the frenzy it generated on conservative blogs
and airwaves was so pervasive that �cooling� has risen to the level of
unassailable fact for a large portion of the population. Reflexive �truthiness,�
stated confidently enough and said often enough, sticks around.
Fox News was particularly nonchalant about repeating the falsehood. Anchor Brett
Baier announced in May �a number of studies now [show] there has been no global
warming over at least the last 10 years, and that the Earth is actually cooling
now.� He never cited those studies.
Then, there�s this sampling of righteous indignation from Glenn Beck:
(See link)
Has the cooling story been doused enough to snuff it out. I doubt it.
Temperature trends are so fundamental to the climate debate that they�re likely
to come up every time there�s an unseasonable cold spell. It�s happened before.
Earlier this decade columnist George Will was among those propagating a separate
cooling myth based on his misinterpretation of temperature data from the 1970s.
Then, this year, he was among those falsely claiming that the World
Meteorological Organization backed up the cooling myth. Don�t be surprised if
Will, Beck and all the rest of them come back with another variant of the
cooling story in 2010.
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Cliff
<spamt...@AT.frankenexpress.de> wrote:
>Cliff <Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:04:43 +0100, Peter Muehlbauer
>> <spamt...@AT.frankenexpress.de> wrote:
>>
>> >Cliff <Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-change/stories/media-mayhem-top-5-tall-tales-by-climate-change-deniers-in-2009
>> >> "Media Mayhem: Top 5 tall tales by climate change deniers in 2009"
>> >> [
>> >> Here are five of the top 10 tall tales in the 2009 climate change denier�s
>> >> storybook. I want your help with the rest of the list for next week�s column.
>> >> Let me know in the comments section which ones I�m missing.
>> >>
>> >> Temperatures have dropped over the last decade.
>> >>
>> >> Tall tale: Yellow journalist Matt Drudge peddled this whopper with sensational
>> >> headlines in 2008. This year, it was repeated so many times that it turned into
>> >> the kind of contrarian cocktail party factoid that can�t be disputed by mere ...
>> >> facts. The premise is simple: Draw a line from a particularly hot thermometer
>> >> level (in this case, the one-time record hot year of 1998) to any lower
>> >> temperature that came later. Voila! You�ve got a downward trend!
>> >
>> >This is a fucktard statement.
>> >Which time period do YOU prefer?
>> >1850 to 1998?
>>
>>
>> http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-change/stories/media-mayhem-top-5-tall-tales-by-climate-change-deniers-in-2009
>
>Answer my question.
>I've not asked to post a link, that doesn't concern the question.
Your reading, basic science & comprehension problems should be
my concern exactly why?
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Cliff