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Another Climate-Change Retraction
jamie writes "It seems every time someone twists global-warming science into 'good news,' a retraction is soon to follow, and so it must be for Slashdot. Yesterday, the conservative Wall Street Journal published yet another apologetic claiming 'the overall effect of climate change will be positive,' by someone who (of course) is not a climate scientist. Today, Climate Progress debunks the piece, noting 'Ridley and the WSJ cite the University of Illinois paper to supposedly prove that warming this century will be under 2C — when the author has already explained to them that his research shows the exact opposite!' We went through this same process last year, with the same author and the same paper, so it's pretty embarrassing that he 'makes a nearly identical blunder' all over again."
He also admits, he doesn't know what the heck he's talking about:
"my objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have."
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2151
He's not an expert on the current science. Taking his advice is like asking a guy who wrote COBOL in the 60's about something like open stack.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
It is, in fact, many of the same people who helped obscure the underlying science in both cases. Nicely documented by historians Naomi Oreskes and Naomi Oresekes in Merchants of Doubt.
While the anti-Americans world-wide are wagging their fingers at the US, China is killing itself with pollution...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
"The people in Boulder Colorado are feeling global warming rather directly today."
The people in Boulder are experiencing an example of extreme WEATHER, not climate.
This has been a cool year. Record cold weather in much of the southern hemisphere and a cooler summer in the Arctic. Total global cyclonic (hurricane-type) activity is at a near-record low.
Global trends are important. Individual incidents of WEATHER do not equate to "global warming" unless the average over the whole planet does, and for a period of years, not a week or so.
The word was used properly. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an apologetic for climate-change denial—a defense of their previous statements. Today, Climate Progress debunked that apologetic.
There has been no apology.
Words are important.