Dear reader, if you follow my blog at Science Blogs you won’t need to check out any of these links, but if not, let me tell you that this has been the busiest single week of climate change related blogging that I’ve personally engaged in, and it is all pretty interesting and even rather exciting, in a “hey, did you see that multi-car pile up on the interstate” kinda way.
The climate change and science denialists are at it again, and we’ve been, well, addressing their issues.
It started with the Wall Street Journal publishing a horrific editorial (Two incontrovertible things: Anthropogenic Global Warming is Real, and the Wall Street Journal is Political Rag UPDATED) followed closely by a piece on a different but related topic on the Daily Mail (New British Studies Confirms Climate Change Consensus, Daily Mail Gets It Totally Wrong). This all comes amid concern that Coral Reefs will be Gone by the End of the Century. After first addressing the problem that Global Warming Is Ruining The Minnesota Winter (including but not limited to the Cancellation of the Lake Elmo Ice Fishing Contest), I reminded my fellow North Star Staters that Unless you really know what you are doing stay off the ice!, then I posted a satire on Global Cooling.
Somewhere in the middle of all this, Mike Mann, the famous climate scientist, released his new book: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.
Then, this thing happened where various bloggers were talking about a Meteorologist who was Exposed as a Scientific Fraud and in so doing some of used a really cool graphic, including Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer guy. Phil was then ATTACKED by a bogus statistician over matters concerning this graph and while Phil was wiping the sweat off his brow and about to dive into the fray, I jumped in with an extensive and intensive look at how William M. Briggs has misunderstood a high-school level data graph, the comments section of which is now the site of a brewing all out bloggy war.
Meanwhile, remember that Wall Street Journal piece? It was signed by a handful of fake scientists, and now it has been followed up by a response from Actual Scientists. And I can’t be sure but I suspect the WSJ published that in part because of pressure from YOU, the blogosphere!
And this period of sudden activity is momentarily punctuated by a low point in Minnesota, wherein Minnesotan Republicans Disrupt Attempts to Save Civilization From Itself. As per usual.
This is not over. I just thought you’d like to know now so you can start trying to catch up.
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Dammit, reading through these links made me get up and turn the space heater off and put on a sweater instead.
Thanks for catching-me-up, Bro! One thing that got me though is Burt Rutan signing the WSJ-AGW paper. I always liked Burt Rutan and his designs made me think him rational, until now.
Greg,
Have you checked out Lester Brown’s book below?
http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/book_files/wotebook.pdf
Just wondering what you thought of it if you had.
Hmmm. Last year global cooling, this year global warmimg…thoughts for next year in MN.
The debate over global warming may be heating up again amid new scientific evidence that the sun’s activity is cooling down — which will cause temperatures to fall on planet Earth, scientists say.
A recent surge in scorching solar flares millions of miles long comes from a peak in the sun’s activity cycle. Yet “Cycle 25,” the next 11-year activity phase, will be one of the weakest in centuries, NASA predicts — a decrease that will mean fewer flares and more fleece sweaters.
God Bless.