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UPDATE: podcasts are now available, see links below.
Readers may recall that back in May, I helped with obtaining funding for the 50 to 1 project out of Australia. During the summer, the project organizers made good on their promises to interview a number of people on the skeptical side of climate science, yours truly included. There’s also the main video which sums up the state of climate science and politics in just under 10 minutes.
My video interview is presented mostly as it happened, with only some very light editing done to the one on one interview in my office, and it runs almost an hour and covers several topics. The main theme video, hosted by Topher Field, who is the producer, is also available below:
The main video:
The 50 to 1 website: http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/
It also has the data and calculations (in a PDF) for support of the video, along with full length interviews from other contributors.
UPDATE: Reader Mark aka “Jabba The Cat” has converted audio from the videos into podcasts for listening to while driving or other activities. He writes:
These links are to the mp3 audio files, at Tubescoop, that I stripped out from the Topher interview videos on Youtube so that WUWT readers can load them into their iPhones, Android devices and music players.
Anthony Watts
Fred Singer
Joanne Nova
Donna Laframboise
David Evans
Henry Ergas
Christopher Essex
Marc Morano
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I have been watching the video interviews and they are compelling. Probably more compelling than trying to squeeze it into a cartoon-led soundbite video. What is interesting is that even without a tightly scripted, motivated-reasoning pitch the absurdity of the hypothesis shows through, and that sceptics are reasonable people that want to see things done properly.
Short and succinct. Great video to share.
Excellent, worthwhile project that hoists the warmest by their own petard.
This is a tad off-topic, but have you seen/discussed the following paper:
http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2013/08/reprieve-warming-thanks-pacific
?
I’m not sure exactly how long this south pacific cycle is, but it could mean we’re heading for years of almost constant temperatures.
Watched the first video, so far the best $100 I spent politically this year.
Waiting to see how my second $100 goes at AGU….
Keep it up guys!
Re posted the videos at my little place. A lot there will not like it or debate it but they will insult and defame me and Anthony, a sure sign they are getting rattled.
I hope i can get my University Professor brother to watch it.
Good job Anthony! You are so clear and understandable.
Nice to see my money was so well spent. The interview with Anthony and Joanne were great. I would caution Donna to not use the court room analogy. Not sure how is goes in Canada, but since they’re a commonwealth I’d suppose it’s fairly close to the British legal system. And that system is not impartial, it’s adversarial – as it is here in the US. So if someone can “stack the deck”, they will.
Great interview Anthony in the video.
Thanks
@Cho_cacao
The last 100 or so years have varied by probably less than 1 C on a global average scale.
I doubt it can get much more constant than that !
Seems to me to be just an explanation for the models being wrong so far. Change the model fudge factors so it flattens out for the last 17 or so years. Easy to predict after the event.
They have also probably realised that there will be some cooling over the next decade or so, and don’t want to be left behind too much. Once they remove CO2 completely, they will have a much better chance of being correct over the next several decades.
I’ve watched yours, Anthony, and Marc Marano’s interview………very well done.
Gives a realism to watts going on.
Looking forward to watching the rest of the videos.
Anthony Watts– I’ve really enjoyed hearing your interview. I don’t mean to toot my own horn (oh heck, yes I do)… but I’m a liberal late 20s Obamaniac who despises the GOP and almost everything they represent. But when it comes to science, I see so many parallels between the truly crazy movements of the far left and far right and the climate debate… and I have to call BS! You are so right about climate science. We can expect a moderate warming from our activities… one that is small, manageable, and probably beneficial to humankind in the long term. As a self professed tree hugger (yes, I’ve hugged trees before), I detest the way climate change alarmism has detracted from the environmental issues that really matter (deforestation of tropical forests, bad forest management here in the U.S. that has destroyed our once pristine landscape, etc). And as a poor.. I cannot afford to donate money to your cause…. but I can tell you now if I ever have two nickels to rub together in this economy, I will think long and hard about donating to your cause of climate realism. The truth is: Humanity is becoming more peaceful, people are being lifted out of poverty by the wonderous energy output of fossil fuels, and our future, even if slightly warmer, looks bright if you just sift through the claptrap. I will continue to encourage other people in my age group to care about the issue of climate change and to find the truth. You are an accidental leader on this issue… but the positive impact you have on climate science and the scientific process in general is no accident… and I mean to support that.
Well that was the second “best hour” I have spent this summer. Thanks 50:1 Project and Anthony
So far I’ve listened to Anthony’s and Donna’s interview. I hope the rest are as well done. Reasonableness and sticking to the facts should eventually win the day. However, I was disheartened today to read that the Sierra club forced the closing of several power plants in Indiana. I fear we have a long way to go.
To be brief Anthony: You did good.
Thanks, Anthony. Well done.
Well worth an hour off work to watch! Excellent.
The best part was the end “Stop being afraid. Start thinking.”
Perfect way to politically attack.
Nice job, you come off as very centered and rational, which is exactly not how folks on the other side characterize us.
Bryan S
Good on you for seeing through so much of the claptrap, and you are so right about the damage done by vamping attention from other real and serious environmental issues.
And good work, Anthony and Topher. It was a privilege to part-fund this, even if it was a tiny contribution. I am ‘One of the 690’. 🙂
First one I watched was Dr David Evans. Excellent scientific critique.
Excellent interview, Mr Watts. First class performance, persuasive and highly credible.
I don’t expect that the BBC will give 50:1 any airtime here in the UK.
At least we are now seeing some AGW proponents admitting to a the lengthening plateau in surface temperatures.
It is about the money and the ability to extract it from masses of consumers and taxpayers and then have politicians and bureaucrats redirect based on their choices.
But it is a theory that gets to control human behavior more generally and the economy while pretending it is all for our own good. It obscures the true nature of the power and financial grab. The reports that push this, in order to obscure the harm to the economy, consistently inflate Growth by a subjective factor that shows up in the footnotes as the benefits of greater well-being. Similar to the Obama Administration’s Social Costs of Carbon.
Like education, these obtuse greedy schemers and naifs are going to destroy what works as they attempt to control it.
Anth0ny:
A good interview. Thankyou. Well Done.
Richard
Now I can call myself a film producer. Conjures up image of Mel Brooks.