Over at Gristmill, the angry David Roberts gets his knickers in a twist about an email list: Barnes gets his information on climate change the same place everyone in the right-wing media world gets it: from Marc Morano, the in-house blogger/agitator for Sen. James...
The Poorly Physician in a Huff
Just over a year ago, we picked up on a post at the miserablist blog, Grist, by Professor Andrew Dessler, former scientific advisor to the Clinton administration. Dessler had compared the planet's 'suffering' from climate change to a child with cancer. 'Who are his...
More Geometric Congruence from the Poorly Physician
We have reported before how climate alarmists seek to draw parallels between the shape of arguments made by the morally reprehensible, and climate change "denialists". At the same time, some like to make analogies of climate scientists and physicians. Andrew Dessler,...
Do Environmentalists Want to Save the Planet or What?
They like their weird analogies at Gristmill. The latest comes from scientist and Green oracle Joseph Romm, in an introduction to a tirade about geo-engineering by guest poster Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project: Geo-engineering...
Dessler’s Grist to the Sceptics’ Mill
On Gristmill, Andrew Dessler provides us with an excuse for a self-indulgent recap: I was at a meeting earlier this week and was talking to one of the coordinating lead authors of the recent IPCC working group 1 report on the physical science of climate change. He...
People in Greenhouses Throwing Stones
We promised to provide a breakdown of the IPCC's WGI as we did for WGII and III. So here goes: As before, we've limited ourselves to those contributors based in the UK or USA. That gives us 303 authors to work with out of a total of 618. That's nearly half the total -...
WGIII – But is it Science?
Following our breakdown of the expertise comprising the IPCC's WGII, we've now done the same for WGIII, “Mitigation of Climate Change”. First, the numbers: Of 270 contributors, 66 were from the USA and UK. We haven’t been able to establish the expertise and discipline...
Physician, Heal Thyself.
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS. 13 December 2008. This post is linked to from other sites more than any other. This has lead to criticism that we have been dishonest in ignoring the scientists in IPCC WGI, which is where the bulk of the scientific analysis is done. It is true...
Save the Planet or the Puppy Gets It
Over at Gristmill, Andrew Dessler complains about the list of 400 sceptical scientists who seem to challenge the "scientific consensus": The question is: does their opinion matter? Should you revise your views about climate change accordingly? The question is then,...