Expect Blizzard Of Bullshit "Amazing Discoveries!!" Before Paris Climate Conference

[hatrack]

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In case you hadn’t read the big news, it was brought to us by famous climate change journalist Miranda Devine (not an actual climate change journalist) reporting on the latest theory of climate change expert David Evans (not an actual expert and not an actual theory). Under the headline “Perth electrical engineer’s discovery will change climate change debate”, News Corp Australia columnist Devine wrote that “if” climate science denialist blogger Evans was correct “then he has proven the theory on carbon dioxide wrong and blown a hole in climate alarmism”.

Wow. A Nobel prize in the offing for Evans for disproving more than a century of science without ever having published a single paper on climate change in any peer reviewed journal? Devine will surely be in line for a Walkley (the Aussie Pulitzer). OK. Enough of the sarcasm. Evans is a climate science denier who has been claiming for years that the science linking carbon dioxide emissions to dangerous global warming is largely a scam, perhaps, as he once wrote, linked to international bankers, or something.

Evans has been writing a series of posts (we’re up to 11 so far) on the blog of his wife, JoNova, where he claims to have found fundamental problems with climate models meaning that CO2 isn’t the key culprit in warming the planet. Another supportive News Corp Australia climate science denialist, Andrew Bolt, has provided a summary of Evans’ claims.

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Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, head of Earth System Science at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told me:

I’ve been working in climate science for 25 years now, and every few months someone (often they are engineers) comes up with a supposed bombshell refutation of human-caused global warming - none of this has ever stood up to scientific scrutiny. Dr Evans rolls out a number of well-worn false assertions often heard from those outside science who try to discredit climate science. Global warming is not pausing: it’s a measured fact that the globally hottest years on record are 2014, 2010 and 2005. 2015 is already so much warmer than 2014 that it is almost certain to be yet another record year. Models reproduce (and have in fact predicted) the warming of the past forty years well. I am surprised that some journalists are still gullible enough to present such a non-story, based merely on wild claims in a blog.

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/oct/16/as-paris-talks-approach-not-even-donald-trumps-fringe-can-hide-desperation-of-climate-science-denialists

[cantbeserious]

1. See - Merchants Of Doubt

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[MisterP]

2. it's the usual techno-utopianism: Jeb's waiting for a "guy in his garage"

Gilder said we don't have to worry about ozone because we'll be inside the computers by 1996 at the latest, Gingrich says we can all move to Mars, etc.

there's always a new "miracle" device, typically only CGI, that makes Wired readers all tingly and is basically there to delay current and usable action--PRT, ET3, Hypeloop (though I'm looking forward to the "destructive testing" of the track)

[Rex]

3. FUD makes charlatans money. It is a great revenue stream for the morally challenged.

I LOVE how these deniers all turn out to be in some other 'field' besides climatology!

It is like a doctor telling us that rocket science is a lie! That gravity is a government conspiracy brought about by the Tri-lateral commission!

These folks need real help and fast!

[flamingdem]

4. Ut oh, did I just fall for the increasing ice story

that was posted here?

doy