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Global Warming Debunker Debunked
Earlier this month we ran an article linking Christopher Monckton's attempt to discredit global warming. The submitter asked plaintively, "Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong?" George Monbiot has now done so. From the article: "This is a dazzling debunking of climate change science. It is also wildly wrong... In keeping with most of the articles about climate change in [the Sunday Telegraph], it is a mixture of cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation, and pseudo-scientific gibberish. But it has the virtue of being incomprehensible to anyone who is not an atmospheric physicist... As for James Hansen, he did not tell the US Congress that temperatures would rise by 0.3C by the end of the past century. He presented three possible scenarios to the US Senate — high, medium, and low. Both the high and low scenarios, he explained, were unlikely to materialise. The middle one was 'the most plausible.' As it happens, the middle scenario was almost exactly right. He did not claim, under any scenario, that sea levels would rise by several feet by 2000." And on the political front, the only major ally for Pres. Bush's stand on global warming, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard, is now willing to look at carbon trading.
Try and pick somebody who isn't a complete loon next time.
Can we make a hole in the ozone so some of that CO2 can leak out and make everything right again?
The Debunker who debunked the debunker has been debunked.
Nice debunking of the debunker's debunking.
technically slashdot is exactly the place to pretend you know shit about stuff you don't - the whole commentary for this story will prove this.
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End result is always extinction; I don't like this game let's play something else.
Your nephew is an idiot. The Jewish high priests were definitely Capitalists.
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The bellboy kept it?
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Global warming is a myth. Just like those dinosaur bones.
Evidently, the only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
I can't, but I'm sure the Republicans are behind it.
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End The FED. -
I can't believe all you IDIOTS!!! You can't tell me the weather next week but you are certain that in 100 years we'll be .3 degrees warmer?
If beer causes CO2 as suggested whats the impact of dropping Mentos into Diet Coke. I blame Youtube
WTF - Speak in acronyms already, i can't figure out what you mean otherwise boss
Let me try.
1. I believe global warming is caused by people.
2. I cannot present evidence to support this assertion.
3. I cannot explain why other planets with no people are also experiencing global warming.
4. Since I cannot explain it, it is irrelevant.
5. Therefore I am right.
QED, hey this is fun.
Can we make a hole in the ozone ...
No, of course we can't. It is axiomatic that humans can have no measureable effect on the atmosphere.
I particularly like how you "prove" your point by offering your family as property.
I'll "Bet" they feel special.