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SkS Weekly Digest #23
Posted on 7 November 2011 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
The findings of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study (BEST) coninued to be the primary topic of discussion on SkS with the publication of seven articles referencing the study:
- Sorting out Settled Science from Remaining Uncertainties
- Baked Curry: The BEST Way to Hide the Incline
- Fred Singer Denies Global Warming
- Watts, Surface Stations and BEST
- Going Down the Up Escalator, Part 1
- Eschenbach and McIntyre - Seeing the BEST part of the Satellite Temperature Record?
- Eschenbach and McIntyre's BEST Shot at the Surface Temperature Record
Toon of the Week
The Week in Review
Here's a list of aticles posted on SkS during the past week.
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Sober up: world running out of time to keep planet from over-heating by Jeremy Nance (Guest post)
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Eschenbach and McIntyre's BEST Shot at the Surface Temperature Record by Dana, Rob Honeycutt, Kevin C, & Glenn Tamblyn
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Watts, Surface Stations and BEST by Logicman
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Fred Singer Denies Global Warming by Riccardo
Coming Soon
Here's a list of articles that are in the SkS pipeline. Most, but not necessarily all, will be posted during the week.
- Going Down the Up Escalator, Part 2 (Dana)
- Is there a case against human caused global warming in the peer-reviewed literature? Part 2 (Jim Powell)
- CO2 Problems: Parallel concerns breed parallel denial (chuckbot)
- Extreme Events to Increase with Global Warming (Rob P)
- Plimer vs Plimer: a one man contradiction (John Cook)
SkS in the News
Dana's Going Down the Up Escalator, Part 1 and its graphic illustrating the difference between the ways climate "skeptics" and realists view global warming has drawn a lot of attention:
- Re-posted by Climate Progress
- Tweeted by Michael Mann and Joe Romm
- Linked by Andrew Revkin on his Facebook page
- Re-posted by Daily Kos
- To be re-posted by TreeHugger tomorrow
“Baked Curry: The BEST Way to Hide the Incline” is incorporated into “Curry Lost in Denial (& Global Warming Still = More Snow)” posted on PlanetSave.
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The contrarians, "skeptics" and those in denial about AGW have taken quite a beating the last two weeks, and are spinning their wheels. They have lost control of their message/misinformation. A small victory.
If this is a bad winter and if next year is significantly cooler than the last few, expect them to shout victory from the rooftops.
I trust it hasn't been lost on you that ALL but one of the original entrants in the US Republican leadership race switched from supporting to denying global warming?
I share your concerns, trust me. I and other are still fighting tooth and nail, here, behind the scenes, whenever and wherever we can...it is exhausting. But now and again we do earn "small victories" as I noted above and it recharges my batteries :)
No need to worry, "complacent" is not in my vocabulary, and probably not in John Cook's either.
Yes, Obama is having a hard time of it, but a lot can change in a year, hopefully he can pull some magic, but I fear at this point it is going to take some "magic".
I'm not quite keeping up with developments in the GOP. Does Romney still maintain AGW is real or has he changed horses?
His most recent statements are that America shouldn't waste trillions of dollars on reducing emissions because polluters will just move elsewhere and he's been calling for aggressive use and development of domestic fossil fuel and nuclear.
Political polarisation strikes again it would seem.
If this is a bad winter and if next year is significantly cooler than the last few, expect them to shout victory from the rooftops."
I'm lost now : are they saying that the earth is warming (and they have all been saying that all along, apparently) or are they saying that the earth is cooling ? Or is it both, depending on how they feel each day ?!
Anyway, there was a programme on the BBC recently (Will it Snow ? - although probably only accessible within the UK) which had the Met Office reckoning that this Winter in the UK shouldn't be as bad as the last couple. Fingers crossed...
I can feel a "snow job" coming on.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-08/carbon-tax-passes-senate/3652438
“There's been a lot of talk recently that the world is finally facing an economic reckoning — a final past-due bill for those years of living so far beyond our means. The truth is we're facing a climate reckoning as well. The two are fatally intertwined — and they're going to be impossible to solve separately, if they can be solved at all.”
“The Kyoto Accords — and Hope — Are Expiring,” Time Magazine, Nov 8, 2011
To access the entire article, click here.