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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’ve just watched/listened to the JoNova interview, and she is far more impressive than I expected from reading her blog. Not that I thought she was ever off base, but I hadn’t realized how extensive her presentations of popular science programming had been *before* her conversion to climate skepticism, coincidentally at about the same time I went from the same level of belief to an utter disbelief in 2007, for many of the same reasons.
The program we won’t see but should would be a half hour of Charlie Rose talking to Joanne Nova and Bill Nye about climate issues… the more I see of Nye the more I miss Don Herbert.
I enjoyed both videos.
I was a little disappointed that there was no mention at all of all the “adjustments” in the data sets done by the government agencies. We know bad sites may be 1/2 of the warming, but the rest may be from the “adjustments”. In fact, there may be more cooling than we know about if we could only get fair and accurate data.
Can’t have everything though. Well done on the vids.
— Mark
Very nice interview Anthony, where anyone watching could absolutely find nothing extreme… except what’s coming from the warmists’ side of the argument.
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 etc.
Anthony Watts
http://tinyurl.com/n4la7xn
Fred Singer
http://tinyurl.com/kxxw9k7
Joanne Nova
http://tinyurl.com/lv8gunn
Donna Laframboise
http://tinyurl.com/n7qpb7l
David Evans
http://tinyurl.com/oq2bx3m
Henry Ergas
http://tinyurl.com/lag69ag
Christopher Essex
http://tinyurl.com/kgurk43
Marc Morano
http://tinyurl.com/lywhg7q
Well done, Anthony. Focused, succinct and reasoned without the dogma of one who thinks he knows all there is to know. Great interview.
I am half way through. Thanks Anthony. In Aust the weather mob are stating: Warmest winter, highest temperature for the early spring weather. I just wonder where they have stationed the monitoring equipment.
Monckton of Brenchley says:
September 2, 2013 at 12:00 pm
“…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…”
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Excellent! I look forward to this. Thank you. 🙂
What a neat project this turned out to be. Thanks so much to Tropher Field and his team. Gordon Alderson, Ben Whimpey, Luke Evans, Sinead Lau, Gavin Fisher, Nick Matthews, and Chris Dawson. And also to the 690 folks who donated to this project. Clearly with less than $60K of budget, I am sure there were a lot of donated long hours put into this. I really do and I suspect most of us here really appreciate the professional effort and the very nice final product. I loved the extended interviews and thanks so much to all of you who participated in them and especially Anthony Watts for his tireless effort in all these endeavors and his support of this project.
Bernie
Can anyone else see the little yellow guy (gal?) in the 50:1 cartoon as somewhat of a “mascot” for Skeptics?
T-shirts perhaps?
I can see “Fity T’One” (pronounced “fitty ta one”) rappin’, “Watts Up With That?”
Lord Monckton,
Great idea with Day of Judgement. Just a pity we cannot drag various felonious frauds in to be judged along with it….but go for it!
I need to amend and extend my praise heaped on Topher Field, Lord Monckton, and those who were so compelling in their individual interviews and those in the background making this happen. And finally, huge thanks to to my fellow 690 Club members for helping make the 50 to 1 project happen!
Wow. Well done. Thank you.
Monckton of Brenchley says:
September 2, 2013 at 12:00 pm
“…The series will be entitled “Judgment Day”. Watch this column for further details…”
I am one of the “690” who would contribute to that effort as well.
Great stuff Anthony. I’ve watched yours and the one with Joanne, and they were very well done. Comes across as very level-headed, objective and reasoned. Just the tone that needs to be used to wake up the masses. Outstanding job by Topher; please pass on our kudos.
(And I think I’m in love with Joanne. 🙂 What a great wit and passion for the topic. She’s going to change some minds out there.)
Send the link to everyone you know. We need to get it trending. Brian S, I was excited to see Obama elected the first time, just because of what it said about how far we have come as a nation in overcoming our racial history. However, his misuse of an agency that has some really excellent scientists (EPA) is one of the most ill informed and genuinely anti-scientific actions of any president in a very long time. But don’t take my word for it, look into it for yourself. Perhaps you could find a way to get Obama admin insiders to see 50:1? It would be a good thing for all of us.
Hilariously, sort of, large trenched earthworks have been found under the “pristine” jungle cover in Amazonia, strongly suggesting a widespread pre-Columbian agricultural society, with vast cleared and farmed landscapes — all of which collapsed confronted with Hibernian iron technology and weapons, permitting the return of wild forests. So Amazonia is at least substantially second-growth forest, if not some higher number!
“Pristine” is empty verbiage, and dis-information.
I have watched all the videos and appreciated them immensely. Thanks to all concerned.
“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.”
I greatly look forward to that, Lord Monckton. I agree that Topher excelled himself with a very professional job. Now that I have seen his work, I plan to make a donation to the next effort if arrangements are made for that.
Um, Greenspan was wrong. “Don’t be afraid”.
Nothing runs out. When necessary, something else, cheaper and better, is found. Always. Think whale oil.
Jabba Le Chat,
Thanks for the mp3 links. They seem to work all right.
Climate skepticism, for lack of a better word, is full of fascinating personalities, events and topics. It could probably support some sort of regular podcast.
THANK YOU:
A-th-ony,
Christopher Monckton,
Topher,
and all those interviewed…., thanks to you all,
Truth Will Win
THANK YOU:
Evan M. Jones for the 1,000 plus (!) hours to create a transcript;
Richard Holle, for heroically sacrificial giving.
And, last but not least,
THANK YOU, SO MUCH, ALL YOU 690
The world is a better place because YOU are in it.
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Dear OssQss,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
You have brightened many a thread with your video postings. Keep it up!
Here’s to a wonderful year ahead for you, full of joy.
Warm regards,
Janice
FOR OSSQSS (just for fun):
Remember staying up late on Friday nights to listen to his show? LOL. “Another one rides the bus… .” Remember how we created a new look when our Levi’s started to wear through at the knees around 1983? (the 2013 version looks so TOTALLY dumb, lol). Well, our hair looked kind of weird, but we sure knew how to have fun — still do! (yeah, I am just about your age)
—– this thread is apparently dwindling down, so….
“Nothing runs out. When necessary, something else, cheaper and better, is found. Always. Think whale oil.” (Brian H at 6:23pm today) Econ. 101.
(Repeated for emphasis). YES. Carla is (unintentionally, no doubt) promoting the U.N.’s “sustainability” lie by which they hope to justify controlling the economies (and population) of the world. Those who on this site speak out against the modern technique of gene splicing that creates “GM” food also help the Envirostalinists. For decades, now, very few people in this country (U.S.) have been eating non-genetically modified food, only the method (gene splicing) has changed. I don’t dispute one’s personal preference to eat non-GM food, but, to speak out against it is to promote some wicked policies that gravely harm third-world people by — the — millions.
‘Mind blowing paper’ blames ENSO for Global Warming Hiatus
Posted on August 28, 2013 by Bob Tisdale
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/28/another-paper-blames-enso-for-the-warming-hiatus/
What is “sustainable” what does it mean. Every single thing used by man is still on this planet and being recycled as we speak, by processes the earth itself invented. These include, inter alia, natural nuclear furnaces, chemical reaction, heat, cold, bacteria and viruses, tectonic activity and many others.
Brian H says:
September 2, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Pretty sure you Iberian, not Hibernian. There may have been some Irish conquistadors, but they have escaped the notice of history.
I was tickled by David Evans’ speculations about the possibility of the temperature dropping by 0.5 degrees C in two or three years. That’s one cosmic custard pie in the warmists’ faces I’d like to see. Maybe the Pranksters on Olympus will serve one up.