tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post113349784928565087..comments2024-02-15T04:42:41.606+00:00Comments on James' Empty Blog: Reputable? Surely not!James Annanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-1134706016683176322005-12-16T04:06:00.000+00:002005-12-16T04:06:00.000+00:00I think the best description of the sane thing to ...I think the best description of the sane thing to be re the THC is unconvinced at this time. The same with anthropic effects on hurrican intensity, e.g. there is reason to think that there is an effect, but the data is not totally convincing at this point, concerning, but not convincing.EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-1134579916401523242005-12-14T17:05:00.000+00:002005-12-14T17:05:00.000+00:00Loved your Freudian-slip reference above to "septi...Loved your Freudian-slip reference above to "septics"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-1134022528219671842005-12-08T06:15:00.000+00:002005-12-08T06:15:00.000+00:00I respect anyone interested in truth..although I m...I respect anyone interested in truth..although I must say that the risks of doing nothing about global warming seem to me far greater than the risks of doing something. That's why I focus mostly on the hacks and right-wing thinktanks (forty of whom are being funded by ExxonMobil, as Chris Mooney showed in an April piece in "Mother Jones") who look for every possible reason to deny the existence of global warming, much as tobacco companies for decades funded researchers who searched high and low and all around for any and all possible arguments against tobacco regulation, and delayed the inevitable for decades. <BR/><BR/>But actually you raised an interesting question in your original post when you asked what would be a term for a mainstream scientist...perhaps a "consensus climatologist?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-1133844585862363032005-12-06T04:49:00.000+00:002005-12-06T04:49:00.000+00:00Kit,Funny you should mention Canada...I was about ...Kit,<BR/><BR/>Funny you should mention Canada...I was about to do a post on that. But on the main point, I absolutely have not set out with the aim of picking holes in the literature - I'm merely pointing out some stuff where I think the truth has been stretched to breaking point and beyond. I'm disappointed when this happens as I think it reflects poorly on us as a group and damages our credibility. It's hard to deny the common septic accusation that some of the AGW scare stories are highly exaggerated. And I say that as someone who is fully convinced that we face substantial ongoing and future climate change of a magnitude and rate which is historically unprecedented (in the last couple of thousand years at least).James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-1133816742579185342005-12-05T21:05:00.000+00:002005-12-05T21:05:00.000+00:00If I never see the words "smoking gun" and "icon" ...If I never see the words "smoking gun" and "icon" again in connection with AGW I will be a happy man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-1133805161185221062005-12-05T17:52:00.000+00:002005-12-05T17:52:00.000+00:00Point taken. I was trying to distinguish in quick ...Point taken. I was trying to distinguish in quick way between scientists such as yourself, who know the field and parse the studies with exquisite precision...and Exxon-backed hacks like Steven Milloy of FOXNews who simply look for any and all reasons to deny the very possibility of anthropogenic climate change. <BR/><BR/>What I think is not generally understood in the public at large is that climate change is serious and real but not necessarily disastrous (contra "The Day After Tomorrow"). As James Hansen said, it's still possible to act decisively, although that possibility is retreating rapidly. What's more--and this has barely even become part of the conversation--climate change will mean vastly things for different parts of the world. <BR/><BR/>As Charles Keeling wryly noted in his autobiography: "Perhaps convincing proof [of global warming] will be acknowledged to have arrived when a substantial number of US Congressman are discovered to have secretly purchased real estate in northern Canada."<BR/><BR/>My endeavor, and my hope, is that we don't have to wait that long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com