Dr. Roger Pielke writes in with an update:
[UPDATE 5/7: Joe Romm offers 3,300 wacky words in response to this short post. Crazy. Anyway, the simple response is, did Gore remove the slide I called him out on for using? Answer: Yes. Game, set, match. For those many readers here for the first time (thanks Joe, this is now the second most viewed post in the history of this blog!) here is a link to my recent book on climate change.]
This is strong language from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. who wrote to me and suggested I share this with my readers. After getting slimed by Joe Romm for the nth time, he finally had enough. He writes:
It is long overdue for the environmental community to start pushing back on Romm as he continues to stain their entire enterprise. His lies and smear tactics, which are broadly embraced and condoned, are making enemies out of friends and opponents out of fellow travelers. Vigorous debate is welcome and healthy. Lies and character assassination not so much.
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savethesharks says:
Here is one example of a ICECAP graph: http://iusbvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/icecap1.jpg?w=448&h=336 This shows the larger context for the case of the HADCRUT data: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1978/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2002/to:2008.7 (green = what ICECAP plotted, red = larger context).
Take the ICECAP graph that I show and look at how the CO2 data is scaled. If you work it out, it is scaled so that on the temperature axis it corresponds to a rise of ~0.83 C per decade. The actual expectation from the IPCC AR4 is that the temperature rise will average about 0.2 C per decade over the next few decades. This corresponds to the CO2 graph being scaled so that it rises by 0.13 C over the entire range of the graph, rather than the ~0.55 C that it rises now. If you overlay such a line on the plot in place of the current CO2 line, you will see that it makes quite a dramatic difference in the appearance of the graph. (And, of course, that is without accounting for the cherrypicked start time of the graph.)
sceptical says:
One need only read through the comments on this thread to see character assassination. The vitriol against Mr. Romm is rather telling.
You know, I read this site and Romm’s site. What I find rather ‘telling’ is that you are incapable of seeing the ‘vitriol’ against Pielke over there.
The future will expose all for what they really are people like gore and romm will be laughed at.
Here are a couple of other ROMM-threads on WUWT:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/17/not-evil-just-romm/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/17/not-evil-just-destructive/