Donna Laframboise is interviewed on SunTV about her new book. 7:40, but well worth your time.
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Tom Harris at ICSC writes: Toronto-based researcher Donna Laframboise deconstruct the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Charles Adler, Sun Media TV. Ms. Laframboise is the author of “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert“, a book that describes how the IPCC includes green lobbyists and others too biased, or too misinformed to have any place on such an important UN body. Ms. Laframboise maintains noconsensus.org, a website that argues that there is no scientific consensus on global warming.
Concerning her book, “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert“, Amazon Books writes: “This expose, by an investigative journalist, is the product of two years of research. Its conclusion: almost nothing we’ve been told about the IPCC is true.”
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There was a new study published today on the climate craziness, claiming that “Most People Are In Favor Of Wild Geoengineering Projects”:
“A majority of people in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States support studying ways to reflect sunlight as a method to cool the planet, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard and two Canadian universities say nearly three-quarters of survey respondents approved research into geoengineering.”
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/most-public-supports-geoengineering-research-survey-shows
Woohooo….I am 40% through and the facts and personalities are all there for checking. Great that she gets attention….and the book gets the ppublicity it deserves excellent work and everyone should know what has been going on. I have only recently become aware of all this and I am mightily outraged. The money and the attention that this has had distracting from so many other things that should be getting done. It IS criminal.
You go girl!
But you do realize that this will take you off big Al’s Christmas card list…
Brilliant! Of course, the Sun News Network is vilified by liberals everywhere, so doubtless it will not wash in the eyes of the true believers. This is the beginning of the whitewash campaign from the UN, and the Fun begins!
I wish her all the best, I just hope enough uneducated voters/taxpayers understand what a sham the whole Climate Change movement is and vote for a change in Politics instead of Climate.
As an Aussie, I fear our country has already started walking the plank with our Carbon Tax incoming. We can only hope this travesty doesn’t last and people rise up against the biased, socialist greens and let common sense prevail. The IPCC was the “Key” that politicians are using to open the door to socialism and increased bureaucratic control of their constituents. The more the IPCC is shown for what it is (an environmental groups bible) the more chance have of brave politicians out there to try and win the “deniers” vote.
Being only 30, I find it insulting that in the last 200 years we have had such innovation, such inspiring work by very intelligent people which has allowed the human populous to do things not even dreamt of 100 years ago. Obviously with anything new, some things mightn’t of been the best idea in hindsight, but there is a clear line between being over conservative and overburdening our environment.
I just wish for all these greenies that live in their big houses (made out of timber cut from forests or bricks made from extracted earth) that are reading this blog using a computer (made from extracted minerals and oil) which is powered by coal and nuclear power, would take a step back and realise that sure, lets keep an eye on how things are going and not overburden the environment, but realise that obviously for the things we have the environment cannot stay identical to how it was 100 years ago, so doing stupid things such as turning off efficient, economical and well supplied Coal Fired Power stations to rely on wind or inefficient solar panels is just dumb and irrational.
Now all Donna has to do is announce she’ll send an article for peer-review at Nature or Science, then “The Delinquent Teenager” will have the same scientific weight as the work by a Dr Richard Muller.
That is an excellent interview. Good old Josh got a look -in too.
OK, I finally get it. The delinquent teenager IS the IPCC. I might have to get the book. That was weird listening to people who sound almost like Americans but strangely odd [*]. Canada is a bit like the other side in Fringe, mostly the same, but different. I like their term, “decided science”. Very good info.
* Yes, I know, from Canada to Chile we’re all from the Americas, but we have no fully unambiguous word naming people from the USA. Perhaps that’s why people prefer to say what state they are from. Once upon a time I was proud to say I was from California.
Right around the corner…
..the MSM is going to start looking real bad over their bias on “global warming”.
great book, easy reading and quite disturbing for anyone who is willing to look at the facts.
Congratulations to Donna, you came across very well and made your points very clearly – even if Mr Adler came across as OVER EMPHATIC to British ears. (What is so inadequate about North American microphones that people feel they need to project in stentorian tones to the back row of the stalls?)
omnologos says: Now all Donna has to do is announce she’ll send an article for peer-review at Nature or Science, then “The Delinquent Teenager” will have the same scientific weight as the work by a Dr Richard Muller.
JK: Right out of the Al Gore zombie’s play book: accuse the realist of not being peer reviewed (as if Al ever was).
In case you didn’t notice, the book is NOT a science book. It is a book documenting the deceptive practices and lies of an organization.
Why would such a subject go through the peer review process at a science publication – it is journalism which is distinctively different than science?
thanks
JK
JK – any grocery till receipt is science on par with Muller’s as long as it’s sent to journalists and pre pre pre-announced for scientific publication
Artwest – no wonder every Hollywood villain is a cold, soft-spoken Brit
omnologos says:
October 25, 2011 at 2:10 am
JK – any grocery till receipt is science on par with Muller’s as long as it’s sent to journalists and pre pre pre-announced for scientific publication
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It takes two grocery receipts to determine a trend, but if you only have one receipt, you can always adjust the receipt you have and use it as data for a second receipt, right?
Hoser October 25, 2011 at 1:21 am
* Yes, I know, from Canada to Chile we’re all from the Americas, but we have no fully unambiguous word naming people from the USA.
English doesn’t, but Spanish does: estadounidenses. However, AFAIK, most people in Latin America refer to people from the United States as americanos or norteamericanos.
Perhaps that’s why people prefer to say what state they are from.
No, that’s not why.
@Hoser
The word Yank seems to work OK. 🙂
Hoser October 25, 2011 at 1:21 am
Well I have thought for a long time that the reason that citizens of the United States of America were known as “Americans” was because their country is the only one in both continents with the word “America” in it.
‘student feces’
he he he
Yes SamG, I heard that as well and had to go back and listen a bit more carefully before I got ‘student theses’ – but I think what I heard first was nearer the truth…..
Great interview. Very impressive.
Donna is calm, reasonable and tells the story directly and clearly. She answers questions well.
I would love to see her debating with some of the more alarmist greenies. I think she would be very effective. DLaF vs Pachauri would be a ticket to cherish.
Michael Proctor,
As a fellow Aussie I agree. And I cringe remembering Labor’s rudely-dumped-by-his-own-party ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd saying in his prissy voice, “The first thing I’d say is the IPCC – International Panel on Climate Change – scientists has 4000 essentially humourless scientists in white coats who go around and measure things and have been doing so for about 20 years. They reached a conclusion about, first of all, climate change happening and, second, the high likelihood, defined as 90 per cent plus, of it being caused by human activity sometime ago.”
Rudd said climate change was the geatest moral challenge of our age – but dropped his ETS (emmissions trading scheme) once it was apparent voters weren’t impressed. So much for the geatest moral challenge of our age.
Doesn’t that say it all about the politicisation of science? Our former Prime Minister really believed that the IPCC was comprised of 4000 scientists. Why was he so badly advised? Why are so many prime ministers and presidents around the world being ill-advised? The only head of state sceptic I know of is the President of Czechoslovakia.
How can we counter the ignorance of politicians? You know, the people who make the laws? The carbon tax laws? The commitments to renewable energy targets? The people who legislate for subsidies for inefficient windfarms and rebates for expensive solar systems? Who, in Australia, actually want to stop the mining of high quality black coal which was Nature’s gift to us. We have centuries worth of high quality coal.
Please excuse me for a moment [she goes outside and screams Aaaaaaaggggghhhhh!].
I feel a bit better now.
Not to be a curmudgeon or anything, but the title, “Big Al,” was taken by Alex Lifeson 30 years ago…
I think more TV interviews like this will be scheduled, now that she’s shown she handles herself well. Her book is about something the average viewer can understand and about which it will be hard for warmists to muddy the waters. These interviews will lead to additional book sales.
The recent serialization in Canada’s National Post may tempt US publications to do something similar. I’m hoping for the WSJ or–ideally–the Reader’s Digest. The latter would make a big impact.
…and “American” feels fully unambiguous to this American.