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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.
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Sometimes we need a little help to understand some of mankinds impact on this planet.
One of the better ones I’ve heard lately..
‘The Mortal Sea’
Rebroadcast: originally broadcast on April 10, 2013.
“The Mortal Sea.” A ship’s captain turned scholar tracks our impact on the oceans through time.
Well, look around, says my guest today. And look way back. Even in the long age of sail, of little wooden boats and tall-masted ships, humans were leaving a deep imprint on the vast seas. Hauling in catches so great they ate away at the sea’s capacity to renew and replenish. It’s all utterly relevant now.
This hour, On Point: the age of sail and the “mortal sea.”
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/08/12/mortal-sea
At the above link is the rebroadcast. After listening you may want the book..
Brian @ur momisugly 5:42
“So how do we get past the stigma of 3 horrible disasters in nuclear history, 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and of course recently Fukishima.”
One gets past the stigma with facts:
3-mile island was NOT a horrible disaster – nobody was harmed physically.
Chernobyl happened due to technology not used in the West combined with actions by some cowboy plant operators.
Fukishima was too close to sea-level to withstand an extremely rare tsunami event.
One of my favorite lines – albeit a little dated: “More people have died in Ted Kennedy’s car than in commercial nuclear power accidents in the U.S.”
As I turn 50 this very day, I have been immersed the whole morning watching the great interviews on the 50 to 1 site. Great job folks, and thanks for the wonderful present 😉
I would encourage development of the 2 hour or longer program that could be created from just the contained interviews. Add in the ones from last Novembers WUWT TV and you have a whole season series that could bring credibility back to PBS?
Keep on keeping on folks. We really do need the help garnering visibility to the truth.
I have only looked at the short interview so far and find extremely powerful viewing. This is so sensible, so well put together, and so useful. BRILLIANT – SUPERB – I hope it will now do the rounds because this video is going to push people in the middle ground into activists against stupidity
Loved the animation too
Are there any transscripts for the videos available? It cuts the translation time for subtitles.
I see those videos as usefull tools to deprogram our local politicans …
Yes, it has been a long haul. I have put in well over a thousand hours checking and rechecking thr ratings and metadata. But the results have been worth it.
Poliotical Junkie says:
I use the term ‘horrible’ not in the terms of lost life but in what it has done to people psychologically.
All 3 accidents have one thing in common, human error. In the case of 3-mile island a technician put a piece of paper on the counter that blocked a warning light. Then with Chernobyl, it was technicians doing an unapproved test that, a mild understatement, got out of hand. Finally, I consider Fukishima human error because they built the emergency power below historical flood levels. I once rented a villa from a architect, who was so proud of his his and community. He had designed and built it to be 5 feet higher than historic flood levels, obviously it was right on the beach. Point being, if someone can take into account flood levels when building villas, then how was it missed when installing emergency power.
Personally, I find the average person to be hysterical loons, that is my concern with getting past the stigma. I was in a conversation with fellow Electrical Engineers and was taken back by their absolute disdain/ fear/ hatred, I am, Not exactly sure which but they were against nuclear. Not one of them had a ‘reason’ other than typical media garbage, they talked about all the loss of life, in the US, there has never been 1. They talked about all the physical waste, ummm it all can fit within the confines of a soccer field. How many hundreds possibly thousands of soccer fields of coal waste are there.
So I truly believe it is an up hill climb, quite possibly impossible.
Another fright-panic – the radioactive water leaking at Fukushima – probably not detectable a few hundred meters away. THe volume is some fraction of that of a high school swimming pool. Has anyone actyually SEEN a Mr. Floatie outside of a pool?
Brian, i think human error will be around a while longer. Are you implying that it’s all gone by?
These videos represent some of the best money I’ve ever spent. Well done, Topher, Lord Monkcton, and all those that have been interviewed to date. The arguments are clear with just a delectable hint of passion, but more importantly, are credible.
Well done Anthony and Topher.
I’ve seen other Topher clips and he seems to be a talented young man.
Look at the Chris Essex interview. He certainly thinks outside of the box. And his approach to everyday people and how they might deal with the specter of climate change is very refreshing. Worth a watch.
Bernie
The videos leave behind a clear record the speakers will have to live with inside a decade. If there is no new high temperature record in about five years, most of the world will probably walk quietly away. Mann will be like Pete Rose at the annual BB Hall of Fame inductions. If it goes the other way… well thanks for taking this side anyway. I’ll never be ashamed to say I thought AGW was mostly hose shirt.
I should like to thank the 690 angels who backed the 50 to 1 project so very generously; Topher Field and his talented team for turning the germ of an idea into a distinguished finished project on time and well under budget; Anthony for his kindness in allowing the project to be plugged on his ever-more-splendid blog; and Anthony (again) and all the other articulate and well-informed interviewees for their eloquent contributions.
To those who worry about whether we at the 50 to 1 project will be proven wrong by a resumption of warming, don’t worry. All of the economic calculations were done on the assumption – per impossibile – that the IPCC’s projections of global warming are correct. A resumption of warming will leave our calculations unaffected. And, talking of the calculations, the underlying reviewed paper will shortly be posted up on the 50 to 1 website.
To those who suggest that a two-hour feature could be made of the main video and the interviews, yes, that is indeed a possibility. However, now that Topher has proven himself so triumphantly, I shall be proposing to him a series of 6-8 hour-long TV programs filmed in a courtroom under a real High Court judge, where the “official” position on global warming will be put on trial in front of a real jury of qualified but uncommitted scientists. The series will be entitled “Judgment Day”. Watch this column for further details.
Thank you all again for your help and encouragement.
50 to 1 needs to do it’s part in fighting couchpotatoitis by making these interviews available as easy to download mp3s.
Would you do us the service of listing a few ‘items’ you despise that you ‘think’ they represent?
To my knowledge, the democratic party has not outright embraced socialism – yet, although the outcome seems to be little different, so this may be one difference I can see …
But please, take this invite to enlighten just one or two of us. Heck, if your argument is good I may switch allegiances …
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Bryan S says:
September 2, 2013 at 12:02 am
Well done. You have past the first hurdle to clear logical thinking. Now all you have to do is to realise that Obama is an inveterate liar. What he is doing via his agencies and outside of the constitution will severely damage the once great nation that is the USA.
Read Steven Goddard. It’s fun, cynical, sarcastic but accurate.
ANTHONY & TOPHER , WELL DONE
@Canman
I’ve put up the mp3 audio of the video here
http://tinyurl.com/n4la7xn
Hth.
I may be just a retired old tool and die, cnc machinist, but I donated ($500), half of a month’s income to the making of this set of film interviews. Best other investments in truth telling I have made have been to Joan Nova, WUWT, Tallblokes Talkshop, and buying books found on the right side bar. Just to show the grass roots effects of skeptics, no oil money source here, I have spent in all, about 25% of my income over the past two years, in the advancement of the truth getting to the public.
JPeden, concerning water vapor, it largely does. Without atmospheric humidity provided by the oceans, Earths average temperature would be about -18C not +15C and we would not be here debating AGW. The CO2 climate question is whether upper troposphere relative humidity stays constant with induced warming. IPCC AR4 says, and GCMs say, it does. Observational evidence IPCC ignores says it goes down, even though UT specific humidity may still increase some. Mechanism is likely Lindzen’s adaptive iris hypothesis. So water vapor positive feedback is overstated and the models run hot. This is why they produce the infamous tropical troposphere hot spot that does not exist. Is explained in my book in the chapter in climate change.
Regards
I have posted links in several groups at http://www.linkedin.com – all building industry design and operations. (we’ll see if they get approved for posting or not.) IMO, this field is suffering due to the climate scare tactics, with codes and design requirements becoming economically unfeasible.
Would you rather like to hear the initiating reason that caused the ‘problem’ in the first place (the ‘paper tag’ blocking an indicator occurring somewhat later)? How about water being forced into pressurized “instrument” air supply system?
Of course, this would then be the ‘root’ causative ‘human error’ which precipitated the whole fiasco …
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When I saw this had come up yesterday, I put up my little red planet in Likes (sorry about it being red, by the way, no I’m not a communist), because I was thrilled it was out – then I went and watched the videos. That took the rest of my afternoon and some time this morning.
Absolutely fantastic. What I would like to see is the option to download this as one giant video – all together. The short video was great, but all the full interviews were even better and I would like to see them locked together into one fantastic show so as not to dissipate any of it. Every aspect was covered and Topher plied each and every one of his interviewees with the “tough” questions, bringing in every argument and concept an ordinary person not already into the subject would ask.
I found it riveting from beginning to end. Brilliant job done by all – and a big Thank You to all who made it possible.
@BryanS
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/01/my-50-to-1-project-interview-is-now-online-along-with-the-main-video/#comment-1405911
I hope you see this comment: You very much speak for me! I have the same political ideals as you describe and the same concern that climate change alarmism perverts real issues pertaining to the environment and science.
Anthony, just a short note to say what a great interview you did. It reminded me what captured my interest and led me down the data path to scepticism when I first found WUWT.
Verity, thanks. And thanks to everyone for the kind words.