From July 13th 2013 in Houston. I was invited to give a presentation, and I adapted Dr. Matt Ridley’s excellent essay: A Lukewarmer’s Ten Tests and added supporting graphs and commentary along with my own work and findings. The video follows.
The video is 53 minutes long including Q&A.
I’m sure some people won’t like what I have to say, and/or will take issue with it. For those that will immediately pounce on the location, Houston, to suggest “big oil” was involved, I’ll provide full disclosure. There was mostly an aerospace interest due to Houston’s role in the space program, there was not a hint of the oil industry there.
I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.
I welcome suggestions readers might have for improvements to the presentation.
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I did not know about your background as an environmentalist or the extent of your experience in broadcast media……….we share many things.
Your presentation, telling it from knowledge in your head while using legit video/graphs is about as authentic as it gets.
There are some things that separate you from an Al Gore presentation.
1. You are using legit data and
2. You walk the walk as well as talk the talk
Toughest thing for people viewing information on the internet today is what to do after getting access to the incredible, convincing sounding sources………….do they discard what they see as garbage or store it as knowledge in their brains?
Am I the only one having problems to watch the video?
Ive tried for two days shifting between Crome Explorer Mozilla but get “time session running out” with all options and I cant find the video on You Tube..
@antiactivist
I use Mozilla Firefox and don’t experience any problems. To find the Youtube-Video use the context-menu(right click) on the video in firefox. I don’t know whether this works in Chrome as well?
Dear Anthony
This is an excellent presentation you also gave credit to other people’s work that you used in your talk, which is very commendable of you.
You invited comments and criticism of your presentation and for a change I have nothing to add 🙂
Bill H says:
August 17, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Might I sugggest that Anthony place a permalink in the tool bar for his presentations? It would give many of us who share this kind of info a quick place to look for it and link to.
Bill
Bill beat me to it. I was going to suggest that if room could be found on the toolbar, a place for all videos that you endorse would be a worthwhile addition to the site.
One of the major problems encounter of when discussing the effect of CO2 on temperature is the math concept of logarithmic relations. Most people simply do not understand the differences between linear, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Forget that, most do not even know what a function is.
Before you know it, while you’re explaining log functions, the eyes of the audience glaze over when they start wondering when they can go home and have a beer or watch America has talent.
Sad really. What skeptics need are some good marketers.
Moana Loa may be an inactive volcano but there will still be CO2 migration from the surrounding ground. I bet the CO2 concentration in your lecture theatre was up to over 5000ppmv after your talk.
Great job, and nice presentation style too!
Yet our President would characterize this as a meeting of the flat earth society.
Excellent presentation!
Having read this blog for years and also seen the occasional broadcasts, I know your speaking style, but this is an excellent example. You come across as a sensible and rational human being. By contrast, so many environmentalists seem to specialise in bluster and abuse of anybody who is not a fully signed up believer. Very easy to follow and informative.
“Hi Anthony- A very valuable and informative presentation. I hope you do more of these!
Roger Sr”
I wonder how many other presenters on this topic over the years have received such a kind and friendly nod from Roger Sr. That should be a source of great satisfaction and pride for you.
Congratulations!
What an excellent talk Anthony. You were clear, concise and convincing. It’s great to see someone with such a grip of the situation being able to articulate it so simply. *claps*
I would, perhaps, add that a single temperature metric tells you nothing meaningful about “global climate”. Show them Yad06.
You have such an easy sense of humor. Your easy manner and the lack of pretentiousness let the facts shine like a Spring day.
Janis you suggest making the same errors CAGWers do, which is to make statements as if they have been rigorously studied when in fact they have not been so studied under standard research methodology. Your suggestions begin to make the presentation look like an agenda.
And beards, mustaches, short hair, long hair, no hair, what does that have to do with the price of tomatoes?
Brian H August 18, 2013 at 12:48 am says: “…Excellent comments, please respond to Mod. to insert para separations….”
I am perfectly willing, made a PDF file for that, but where does it go?
Thanks Anthony for a superb, enjoyable … memorable! …presentation.
I’ve been using your site for years and this was extremely helpful in tying all the major findings together in a great Video.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
Thanks to you and your work many have been shown the way to truth.
Anthony, Wonderful presentation and thank you for your comment to promote Thorium nuclear power!
Finally, I stole a few minutes to watch the video. Your presentation is brilliant, brilliant, and brilliant. It will go viral. Prepare for blowback. God Bless You.
Totally awesome lecture. Even though I follow WUWT there was much that was new to me. Just one minor quibble. You implied that we did not have electric telegraph 150 years ago:
On August 16, 1858 (155 years ago) the first transatlantic electric telegraph message was sent and here is what it said:
“Europe and America are united by telegraphy. Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace and good will toward men.” Queen Victoria then sent a telegram of congratulation to President James Buchanan at his summer residence in the Bedford Springs Hotel in Pennsylvania and expressed a hope that it would prove “an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded on their common interest and reciprocal esteem.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable#First_contact
REPLY: I was alluding to widespread use as a mechansism for news dissemination, early use was mostly for railroad business. – Anthony
Your emphasis on siting issues and the surface temperature record is extremely important. It gives people something to sink their teeth into and it reveals a foundational problem with claims of global warming. Teachers should send kids and parents out looking for weather stations. Most important to me, you carve in stone the total lack of attention shown empirical matters by those who control temperature measurements. (When is BEST going to pony up and do the statistics on your five-fold classification of weather stations? What is their problem? Why do they show a total lack of attention to empirical matters?)
Anthony, make this post a sticky at the top. Keep it there for a considerable amount of time. You have great popular appeal.
Anthony,
very good presentation.
Harry Kal
Excellent presentation.
It’s great that you avoided criticizing individuals and organisms and that you never alluded to fraud. You stuck to science.
So are you going to tell us one day what role you played in the AR5 leak ?
François