There are some of us who remain so humbled by the task of measuring and understanding the extraordinarily complex climate system that we are skeptical of our ability to know what it is doing and why. As we build climate data sets from scratch and look into the guts of the climate system, however, we don’t find the alarmist theory matching observations. (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data we analyze at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does show modest warming — around 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit per century, if current warming trends of 0.25 degrees per decade continue.)
My experience as a missionary teacher in Africa opened my eyes to this simple fact: Without access to energy, life is brutal and short. The uncertain impacts of global warming far in the future must be weighed against disasters at our doorsteps today. Bjorn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists (including three Nobelists), calculated that spending on health issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV/AIDS and water purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to marginally limit “global warming.”
The above are extracts from The Wall Street Journal article ‘My Nobel Moment’
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
Lordy me he’s up himself.
So we see all the trade marks – “missionary teacher” – so tells me science and objectivity are out the window for a start.
So where is this massive tome of “alarmist theory” – a construction by the denialists and nay-sayers against sensible and prudent action. The continual propagandisation of the debate to the extreme.
The other tactic is to portray the debate as exclusive – you can either have AGW or this vaccine. It’s EITHER OR – not AND. If you’re worried about waste perhaps we could start on many aspects of affluent western civilisation or dare we say the billions wasted in turning Iraq into a terrorist playground. Or activities of US tobacco and pharmaceutical companies in Africa. But no – out of the universe of possibilities we’ll just pick that one.
“Without access to energy, life is brutal and short” – yep agree in some respects – but also add protection from disease, access to food, water and protection from warfare. Having access to energy as you’re being shot and macheted to death isn’t that useful. Intervention in Darfur?
Lomborg has been widely discredited – do we have to review the sophistic the arguments again?
So Christy sat on his satellite data without adjusting for sensor drift which would have to be remote sensing 101 – I wonder why he didn’t do the analysis – so I don’t give a fig for his opinion.
His position is just more of that good ol’ US religious fervour. He should hand his Nobel fragment back.
fragment or figment?
Hey, Luke says:
“so I don’t give a fig for his opinion.”
Guess that sorts him out then.
Don’t know why these idjuts print all their guff without consulting Luke first.
Mystere!
Lomberg discredited? Certainly not by Flukeldinho, embassador from Bullshitistan.
Just note the sequence of this clowns mind. First he finds an excuse for not accepting anything. Christy was once a missionary teacher in Africa, and thats all Luke needs to load up a bucket of implied excuses for ignoring his views.
What an intellectual giant. So what gratuitous acts of dedication and service have you graced the planet with lately, Luke? If ever? Locked up the lubricant jar for three days as a test of will power? Unlikely.
Lomborg is discredited by his own shallow analysis. According to him, Australia doesn’t have a water problem. It’s easy to see why we don’t, just average the rainfall for the whole country over the total population.
I also note that Lomborg repeatedly brings up the same false dilemma. You can improve kids lives in Africa and fix global warming. The idea that it’s an either/or is purely a fiction invented by Lomborg. My tip, if we do nothing about global warming, the kids will still not get the aid they need.
The three ‘ugly sisters’ are inflamed.