Welcome, for the next 24 hours, WUWT will be bringing you the counterpoint to Al Gore’s claim that “dirty energy=dirty weather” which you can watch over here.
To watch WUWT-TV live see below:
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You can watch live in the window above by pressing the PLAY icon, or you can click the link to USTREAM directly: USTREAM direct link
Some notes:
1. I cannot remove the advertising, the cost to do this channel without it, given the potential number of viewer hours that could occur (along with overages) was too big of a financial risk for me. Please make do. perhaps we’ll get there for the next time, donations accepted.
2. In a few days, the source video clips will be posted on YouTube.
3. During live interviews, we will take selected questions submitted in comments below.
4. Please share this link to this post widely, on blogs, on facebook, with friends. Help get our view count up.
5. Press release on the event is here.
6. Schedule follows.
WUWT-TV Schedule November 14th & 15th
ALL TIMES BELOW are Pacific Standard Time but MAY CHANGE DURING THE LIVE BROADCAST if Presenters go short/long or we have technical difficulties.
To convert these times to your time zone, click to open this time zone converter tool.
For a mapped time zone (thx ‘aquix’) see: http://www.timezonecheck.com/
Recordings will be made available a few days after the broadcast.
Schedule:
| Senator James Inhofe (recorded intro) | 5:00 PST Nov 14 | Intro – whats next? | |
| Dr. Pat Michaels (live) | 5:10 PST Nov 14 | Lukewarmers, Hotheads & Flatliners | |
| Bob Tisdale (video) | 6PM PST Nov 14 | Sea Surface Temperatures/ENSO | |
| Chris Horner (live) | 7PM PST Nov 14 | Political angle, FOIA | |
| Dr. Ryan Maue (live) | 8PM PST Nov 14 | Hurricanes | |
| Steve Mosher & Tom Fuller (live) | 9PM PST Nov 14 | Climategate | |
| Dr. David Evans (live) | 10PM PST Nov 14 | The Skeptics Case | |
| Burt Rutan (recorded) | 11PM PST Nov 14 | Engineer’s perspective | |
| Pete Garcia (movie intro, recorded) | 12AM PST Nov 15 | Feature movie | |
| The Boy who Cried Warming (movie) | … | … | |
| The Boy who Cried Warming (movie) | … | … | |
| John Coleman, KUSI-TV (intro, recorded) | 1:30AM PST Nov 15 | ||
| John Coleman Special Pt1 (recorded) | … | TV special on AGW Pt1 | |
| John Coleman Special Pt2 (recorded) | 2:30AM PST Nov 15 | TV special on AGW Pt2 | |
| Dr. Sebastian Lüning (recorded) | 3:30AM PST Nov15 | The Sun as Climate Driver | |
| Mike Smith, CCM (recorded) | 4:30AM PST Nov15 | Extreme Weather events | |
| Marc Morano (recorded) | 5:00AM PST Nov15 | The Politics of Alarmism | |
| Dr. Ross McKittrick (recorded) | 6AM PST Nov15 | Energy. Pollution, Economics | |
| Dr. Richard Lindzen (live) | 7AM PST Nov15 | Bait and Switch Aspects of the Global Warming Issue | |
| Christopher Monckton (live) | 8AM PST Nov15 | Climate Sensitivity | |
| Andrew Montford (live) | 9AM PST Nov15 | The Hockey Stick/28Gate | |
| Dr. Roy Spencer (live) | 10AM PST Nov15 | What Causes Climate Change? | |
| Steve McIntyre (live) | 11AM PST Nov15 | The Climate Year in Review: a new focus on extremes | |
| Dr. Tim Ball (live) | 12PM PST Nov15 | Warming – A deception? | |
| Joe Bastardi (live) | 1PM PST Nov15 | Forecasting extremes | |
| Joe D’Aleo (live) | 1:30PM PST Nov15 | Extreme weather & Sandy | |
| John Kehr (live) | 2PM PST Nov15 | The Inconvenient Skeptic | |
| Harold Ambler (live) | 3PM PST Nov15 | Ignoring Weather History | |
| Maurizo Morabito (live) | 3:30PM PST Nov15 | BBC’s Twenty Eight Gate | |
| Donna Laframboise (live) | 4PM PST Nov15 | The IPCC – Unreliable & Untrustworthy | |
| Anthony Watts & Evan Jones (live) | 5PM PST Nov15 | Update on the surfacestations project and Watts et al paper. |
Seconded. How about monthly two-hour shows with four guests?
Also, add a Video tab where rebroadcasts can be watched.
E.M.Smith says:
November 14, 2012 at 6:59 pm
….I think Bob Tisdale’s presentation is finally getting me to understand how ENSO works….
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Agreed, but the darn sound kept cutting out so I am looking forward to watching the presentation on U-tube.
That is what was so wonderful about these presentations I explained and put together a look at the other side of the debate in a manner most people could understand.
Anthony
Great broadcast!
Never mind the few glitches.
I watched most of it (I’m in CET, so the time wasn’t ideal for me).
It’ll be interesting to see what the general feecback is.
Keep up the good work.
Max
GeologyJim says:
November 14, 2012 at 10:23 pm
….Think about the T and CO2 curves (from ice-core data) showcased in Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. Every interglacial warm period ended (i.e., persistent cooling began) when CO2 was at its highest level. Equally, every glacial period ended (i.e., warming began rapidly) when CO2 was at its lowest level.
In face of these data, how can any sentient being conclude that CO2 is a major player in temperature history? How can any credible scientist assert that sensitivity is high and that “tipping points” exist? Billions of years of earth history show that feedbacks must be dominantly negative and that Earth is perfectly capable of moderating its own temperature and atmospheric compsition.
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If you look at the Oregon Petition many scientifically trained people HAVE looked at the evidence and agree with you. Then look at the IPCC “experts” that Donna Laframboise emphasized at the beginning of her presentation. They did not even have their degrees finished or dyed in the wool ACTIVISTS. (The presentation broke-up badly so I am waiting for the U-tube to watch the rest of it)
It is the MSM like the BBC who are pushing this stuff down the throats of people in a real world case of brainwashing that would make Stalin proud.
Anthony
Another poster has asked this question, but is any part of the broadcast going to end up on youtube?
Max
Kudos, Anthony on yr great marathon effort. i particulaly enjoyed Dr Luning
on Bond events, Maurizio Morabito on 28gate and Donna Laframboise on
the IPCC coterie. Sorry I missed Burt Rutan.
I only had time to dip into a few of the presentations, but I was quite impressed with the broadcast technically. First, I was viewing with Opera 11.64 browser on Linux, a combination which has caused many Flash video players to choke and fail — but the UStream player worked great. The video of Anthony was very smooth, with no visible jerkiness, very few dropouts, and clear audio. I’m on an erratic 1.5 Mbit/s connection, with an older PC, and I think this is the best streaming video experience I’ve seen. The Skype interviews looked like, well, Skype — a bit more choppy and with webcam video quality, but that’s what you get. I did notice a flickering horizontal bar at the bottom of Skype video images, but I didn’t see that with the direct video of Anthony, or any locally-generated graphics. So I’d say both the Tricaster and UStream are working great, and all you need now is to get more of your guests into the studio. (I know, I know, but I can dream, can’t I?)
Great job.
I’ve attended several online courses at Udacity, Coursera and VIU (a spanish online university) and I think that the kind of material we watched yesterday at WUWT-TV could easily be arranged in the form of a superb online ‘course for climate change’.
Thanks for the first class science class we enjoyed from WUWT-TV.
manacker – read what Anthony says above!!!
“2. In a few days, the source video clips will be posted on YouTube”
William Sluman says:
November 15, 2012 at 9:21 am
… My question to ask you experts was this. If warmist believe that a future warming of 1 or 2 degrees is likely to raise global temperatures to a dangerous tipping point, wouldn’t the rise in temperature of perhaps 20C that occurs when we move from winter to summer bring about the same effect? In comparison, 1 or 2 degrees seems extremely small. Similarly, why doesn’t an exceptionally hot summer in, for eg. Europe, when temperatures are above average initiate the same effect?
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I know that this was answered on the livestream. However all one has to do as GeologyJim says is look at the geological record. Even during the current Ice Age we have had interglacials that were warmer link (note the temperature during the Holocene has been quite level in comparison) and the same is true if you look only at the Holocene. The earth seems to have two semi-stable conditions with the continents in the present configuration. It takes a good boot to get a change from one condition to the other and CO2 is not and can not be that boot.
As was shown in the other presentations it is all about extracting money not science.
D Böehm says:November 15, 2012 at 7:20 pm
[..]If I had written like that, the gestapo-trained nuns would have rapped the back of my hand with their 3 foot wooden pointers.
Mere 3 foot wooden pointers? Perhaps the increased leverage from the added length made them more equivalent to the wooden foot-long ruler with the metal inserted edges…
julesbollocks says:
November 15, 2012 at 1:51 pm
12,000 here
12,000,000 with Al Gore
gives you an idea of just what a minority skepticism is!
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And whose fault is that? Could it be the MSM like the BBC who refused do give the public both sides of the story so they are not aware there IS two sides?
Oh and Mr Jules Bullocks, how about doing a bit of follow the money. Like the connections between Enron, BP, Shell, GE JP Morgan and Global warming , the multinationals positioned to make big bucks off the dying bodies of old people. Don’t miss the Shell/BP connection to WWF or the Standard oil (Rockefeller money) connection to Greenpeace.
I am sure you were completely stressed Anthony, but it will be worth it to kick Gore’s butt in the numbers, and with a fraction of the budget !!!! Technical issues, but will certainly be better armed next time. Great job !!!
While I understand why Anthony allowed Jones to present the Watt et al segment,I would recommend that in the future Anthony should do the presentation, with Jones at hand to
fill in any info gaps. I had a difficult time listening to Jones, who jumped all over the map
and constantly interrupted himself, and I found it hard to follow the storyline, despite
already being familiar with the study.
Stephen Rasey says:
November 15, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Re: Donna Laframboise’s piece.
It need a minute or two on the official changes the IPCC made in “Conflicts of Interest”. They acknowleged that Conflicts of Interest need to be address, but they will mostly do that after they publish the next report — two+ years hence.
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And if you believe that I have a slightly damaged bridge I want to sell.
At this point, with forty years of indoctrination starting with the UN’s first Earth Summit in 1972, the IPCC now has an entrenched CAGW science clique to choose from.
The BBC scandal shows just how bad the indoctrination program is.
I think a few people will have had a change of heart comparing your broadcast and the slick show of Gore. Dejá vu. Nice.
Great job, Anthony! The presentations that I saw (about half) were excellent. The four highlights for me were:
1) Maurizio Morabito’s presentation on 28Gate.
2) The Surface Stations findings. Absolutely gob-smacking, and clearly a huge amount of work by you and Evan. The hat-tip to Google was particularly fun.
3) Donna Laframbroise’s evisceration of the IPCC, done with such a pleasant tone.
4) KenjiCam.
Excellent enterprise I didn’t get to watch everything looking forward to to the video releases so I can catch up on the ones I missed.
Big thumbs up to all involved.
Extremely well done, I am looking forward to seeing a lot more of this. Thank you and all the speakers for their efforts. Real science will prevail over dogma.
Robert Landreth MSc Geology, Texas Tech Univ. ’77
Congratulations and thank you, Anthony!
I especially enjoyed Dr Spencer’s presentation, but well done to everyone who took part in this epic event!
I like when CEI introduced Frederic Bastiats ideas and what *real* (IE NON-KEYNESIAN) economics had to say about the jobs creation clap trap…it’s all about opportunity cost. Something 99.9999% of environmentalists will never grasp.
Are there any official stats on the webcast?
What I saw for WUWT-TV at the end was 16,690 total views and a current views in the range of 420-670, median about 550 over the 24 hrs. That boils down to each view with a mean duration of 47.5 minutes. Anyone with better estimates than that?
Contrast that with the Gore-TV stats as posted by Reg. Blank at 7:14pm:
610,000 total views at 03:14 GMT (2.25 hrs ? into broadcast), 12100 current views. You can only get there with a mean view duration of less than 3 minutes.
Reg. Blank’s 8:30 pm update (3.5 hrs) had “coming up to 1 million”, but the current view counter was taken down. That’s 275,000 views/hr coming from less than 15,000 current viewers (judging from the current views in the previous 2 hours). So each view is just over 3 minutes on average.
If you go by mfo’s 2:28pm post in the previous thread, 15.7 million total views in 24 hours boils down to 650,000 views/hr. The number of current viewers was taken down in the 4th hour, so we can only guess at that. Let’s give them 3X the highest count seen: 36,000 average current viewers over the 24 hrs. That’s still only 3.5 minutes a view. The fewer the current viewers, the shorter must be the duration.
WUWT-TV: 47.5 minutes/view
Gore-TV: ~ 3 minutes/view
Did I hear right near the end that nuclear energy is the most expensive form of energy despite all the money and promises for decades? That is just the opinion Canadian David Suzuki. Although a nuclear power plant has high capital investment and insurance and decommissioning costs over its lifetime, the cost of fuel is very low for the energy produced, giving power at a cost comparable to coal and gas, and is much more economical than wind or solar power.
Roger Knights says:
November 16, 2012 at 3:13 am
Eyal Porat says:
November 15, 2012 at 10:47 pm
It left me with a feeling of “More”. May I suggest you consider making short video blog posts as well as the written ones and upload them to YouTube or on your server (I know many people do this already).
Seconded. How about monthly two-hour shows with four guests?
Also, add a Video tab where rebroadcasts can be watched.
Steady on lads, Anthony has to work for a living !! He’s not sponsored by Big Oil or Big Green or for that matter the ex-felon.
Like others have said I was only able to view parts here and there and look forward to the YouTube clips.
Perhaps, as the blog links are put on the sidebar the YouTube links could be put there with the presenter and the subject?
My only regret is that, while I heard him at times in the background, I never actually got to see Kenji in action.
(Though from some of the comments made so far, perhaps there wasn’t much actual action to see.8-)