Roy Spencer has published a new book that will be released on 27th March entitled, ‘Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Leads to Bad Science, Pandering politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor.’
In the chapter on politics, Roy Spencer describes the political pressure he was under during the Clinton/Gore
administration to not voice any of his personal views on global warming during congressional testimony…which is more restriction than Jim Hansen ever had.
There are also revised editions of the best sellers TAKEN BY STORM: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming by Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick.
and
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years,Updated and Expanded Edition by S Fred Singer and Dennis T Avery.
Keep an eye on the Science and Public Policy Institute website for the imminent release of Christopher Monckton’s 90-minute climate movie Apocalypse? NO! DVD.
Plus, there is always the expanded and improved version of the DVD The Great Global Warming Swindle by Wag TV.
Enjoy!
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
“Plus, there is always the expanded and improved version of the DVD The Great Global Warming Swindle by Wag TV.”
Improved and expanded. Good sense of humour, Paul.
You were joking, weren’t you?
Spencer’s and Essex/ McKitrick’s books are now on my wishlist.
OT, Pielke Snr is back with a vengence. His latest post is excellent: http://climatesci.colorado.edu/2008/01/07/response-to-the-new-york-times-weblog-by-john-tierney-entitled-are-there-are-any-good-weather-omens/
One hassle with the dvd’s is the region setting – I got my copy but it was region 1 so unplayable on standard dvd players but there are software solutions and that means the dvd can only be played on a PC.
WAG TV – most of us realise it’s a standard US TV station call sign, so the humour must be belief specific.
Incidentally John Ray’s Greenie watch has some excellent articles posted today.
Is it just me or do we see a strong bias towards dispelling any credibility in the AGW arguement? What makes me even more cynical is failure to mention anything about energy security or fossil fuel inflation moving forward. Are you on the fossil fuel payroll Jen/Paul?
The IPA are free marketeers Aaron – no need to panic, just sit back and do nothing. Invisible hands at work and all that jazz.
Wow Proteus, this is powerful stuff…Your really showing your scientific climate stripes here
IPCC Claim: “New observational and modelling evidence strongly supports a combined water vapour-lapse rate feedback of a strength comparable to that found in General Circulation Models (approximately 1 W m–2 °C–1, corresponding to around a 50% amplification of global mean warming).” (page 591) and
“Water vapour feedback is the most important feedback enhancing climate sensitivity.” (page 593)
Reality: The increase of water vapor content of the atmosphere has been muted at most zero over the last few years;
“I got my copy but it was region 1 so unplayable on standard dvd players..”
Louis, I thought the sale of DVD players that have in-built region coding was illegal in Australia following a High Court ruling a few years back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_codes
Anyway, you can cheaply buy the codes (which are simply punched in on the remote) to de-programme your DVD, on the internet – i.e. making it all-region.
Anthony, it took you this long?!
Seriously, my favourate climate blog has been Pielke Snr’s, so seeing it back has been great. A close second comes Climate Audit which is almost always interesting, and is made all the more interesting when JEG, Judith Curry, Svalgaard, and the like, pop-in and contribute to the conversation.
Re one of Pielke Snr’s current list of questions, would you know what the current radiative imbalance is, per chance? If you do, cc. the IPCC, would you.
Aaaron – you get the award for the most stupid question asked this week, so far.
“The IPA are free marketeers Aaron – no need to panic, just sit back and do nothing. Invisible hands at work and all that jazz.”
The invisible hands won’t be able to do anything to prevent global warming. They will magically and invisibly spring to life when we have to deal with the problems of global warming. And by we, I mean those of us with the money to buy the solution.
“And by we, I mean those of us with the money to buy the solution”
After you, SJT.
Aaron,
While I agree with Paul, that your question was a bit silly.
I’m always keen to publish comment from you. I think you have a real contribution to make particularly in terms of getting us to think about food security. So send me in your perspective, in your own words, and i will probably publish it as a new thread. And BTW I’ve started developing a page with some advice for contributors. It’s here: http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/display/stylemanualblog.html
PS What’s the best book you’ve read lately? What about sending me/Paul/Neil your review for posting as a new thread?
Chrisgo,
thanks for that info re DVD players. I live in a caravan (or camper trailer), (which makes me trailer park trash, I suppose), and the DVD dedicated units are automobile ones, so I suspect the software hot fixes to encode non region 4 ones might not be applicable.
In any case I now use computers for all the multimedia stuff so watching non region 4 stuff is not that difficult.
And thank you indeed for the information!
Invisble hands will certainly not be able to do anything about global warming, not if the Armagh soil temps are any indication, ( I wonder if I wrote a non-sequitur) but then when, oh when, did rational thinking ever enter the minds of the alamarus climaticus!
Aaron
fossil fuel inflation?
What do you mean by that?
Oil/gas/coal price rises. OK Paul I’ll wear that one … I’ve copped worse on the footy field. Point was though it will be great to see more on this blog about other issues that are just as, if not more important like food and agriculture. I mean we all eat 3 squares a day, agriculture is now approaching the largest GHG emitting sector and farmers manage close to 70% of the global land base.
Lester Brown’s ‘Outgrowing the Earth’ is an excellent read though it is probably 4 or 5 years old now. But Lester has been warning of the food calamity just around the corner for at least a decade now. An ex-farmer also so he has an almost instinctive understanding of the capacity of global agricultural land bases.
Aaron – food and agriculture are important – we do post on such subjects – but it is not really an area of interest for me personally, although I am happy to post something if someone supplies the info.’ I did post something a while back about agricultural land use and GHGs.
Brown sounds like another sandwich board wearer with ‘the world ends today,’ written on it, crossed out and replaced with ‘tomorrow.’
Where would agriculture be in a Little Ice Age type world, rather than the modern warm period?
Aaron – I either blogged this, or posted it as a comment a while back:
Pielke Sr:
http://climatesci.colorado.edu/2007/07/13/presentation-on-global-change-and-climate-change-by-jon-foley-at-the-april-4-6-2007-nasa-land-cover-and-land-use-change-meeting/
Jon Foley presented an excellent talk at the NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Meeting April 4-6, 2007 in College Park, MD [hosted by Garik Gutman and Chris Justice] entitled “Planet Against the Grain” where he reports that about 40% of Earth’s land has been converted to agriculture. He thus states that today about 40% of the global photosynthesis is now in human hands. He concludes that agriculture has already altered the biosphere as much as projections of future climate change, but now they are happening together:
Warning – slow download!
ftp://ftp.iluci.org/LCLUC_APR2007/foley_lcluc_apr2007_presentation.pdf
Brown has called an agricultural boom of immense proportions because of very negative macroenvironmental developments. He’s not the only one providing that sort of commentary. Don Coxe, Jim Rogers all betting with their wallets the agriculture story will unfold in a negative way for the world.
They’ve all been right on the money to date and all my investments have burgeoned as I’ve found markets don’t lie, people generally do …
Paul I note you likely enjoy 3 squares a day. Will you think it strange if the price of that increases three fold in 2008? Hey then you could wear a sandwich board too ‘Where’d all the cheap food go?’
Oh and Paul a 1 degree rise in average temperature translate to a 10% decrease in global staple grain output (wheat, rice, corn, barley, potatoes etc). If you think the world can afford that with a mere 40-45 days of grain in global coffers, then maybe you should make agriculture more of an interest. No doubt you like your food as much as me..