Gore’s 24 hours of climate reality gets panned by greens and scientists alike.
Mr. Gore bases his activism on several key points, all of which are either wrong or unknown. The red text in the boxes below summarizes positions taken by Mr. Gore. The corrections of ICSC scientists follow each box. More.
Al Gore’s “24 Hours of Reality” is backwards | Scoop News
ICSC Energy Issues Advisor Bryan Leyland of New Zealand said, “Gore says we must focus on reality. Reality says that the world has not warmed for the last 17 years even as carbon dioxide, the gas Gore blames for climate disruption, has risen 8%. Reality says that we are near a record low for hurricanes, and other extreme weather is not generally increasing in severity or frequency.”
Leyland concluded, “ICSC scientists explain here that Gore’s claims about science are either wrong or unknown.”
Dr. Ryan Maue:
http://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/392721996938633216
And it seems they are playing fast and loose with viewer stats like they did last year…
…when numbers magically jumped.
As for me, I forgot it was even on yesterday. That and lack of notice in the media shows just how much Gore’s shine has dulled. Oh and then there’s this:
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Awww…
It’s very cold now. It snowed last night. The blizzard blew my very poorly insulated window open and I had to sleep wearing my hat. I’m nervous about spending winter here. I have a radiator in my cell but it’s the Arctic breeze that makes the place very cold. I heard that from December Murmansk is dark for six weeks. God, I hope I’m out by then.
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Maybe his earlier work was a crock too?
A paper under open review for Climate of the Past reconstructs summer [June, July, August [JJA]] temperatures in Sweden and Finland over the past ~2,200 years and finds temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years ago and the Roman Warm Period 2,000 years ago were about the same as at the end of the 20th century. The paper also shows excellent agreement between the instrumental record since 1800 and the proxy reconstruction, unlike Michael Mann’s hockey stick “trick to hide the decline” in proxy temperatures after 1960. The paper adds to the published papers of over 1,200 scientists finding non-hockey sticks demonstrating that the Medieval Warm Period was global and as warm or warmer than the present.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-paper-finds-summer-temperatures-in.html
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Dan Tauke writes: A great article in the Economist last week regarding research papers often being wrong and the process not being self correcting – something that we have in spades in the climate arena: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble
Key takeaway paragraph here but good detail on the statistical errors in the article:
“Various factors contribute to the problem. Statistical mistakes are widespread. The peer reviewers who evaluate papers before journals commit to publishing them are much worse at spotting mistakes than they or others appreciate. Professional pressure, competition and ambition push scientists to publish more quickly than would be wise. A career structure which lays great stress on publishing copious papers exacerbates all these problems. “There is no cost to getting things wrong,” says Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who has taken an interest in his discipline’s persistent errors. “The cost is not getting them published.” “
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Larry Ledwick writes: New modeling initiative by National Science Foundation to produce “reliable climate predictions”
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503399
The long-term goals of this solicitation are to improve on and extend current Earth System modeling capabilities to:
Achieve comprehensive, reliable global and regional predictions of decadal climate variability and change through advanced understanding of the coupled interactive physical, chemical, biological, and human processes that drive the climate system, including as they pertain to agriculture , forestry or land cover/use.
Quantify the impacts of climate variability and change on natural and human systems, and identify and quantify feedback loops.
Maximize the utility of available observational and model data for impact, vulnerability/resilience, and risk assessments through up/downscaling activities and uncertainty characterization.
Effectively translate climate predictions and associated uncertainties into the scientific basis for policy and management decisions related to human interventions and adaptation to the projected impacts of climate change.
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Tony Abbott accuses UN official of ‘talking through her hat’ on climate change
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has dismissed a UN assessment that the New South Wales fires are linked to climate change, accusing a senior UN official of “talking through her hat”.
Earlier this week, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, said the fires proved the world is “already paying the price of carbon”.
She also criticised the Abbott Government’s direct action plan to tackle climate change as being potentially “much more expensive” than the carbon pricing scheme that it is moving to dump.
But Mr Abbott argues that “fire is a part of the Australian experience” and not linked to climate change.
“The official in question is talking through her hat,” he told 3AW.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-23/tony-abbott-fires-climate-change-rfs-un/5039932
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rogerknights says:
October 24, 2013 at 5:47 am
>The link below has two consecutive periods in it–that is probably why it doesn’t work….
http://eg.igras.ru/files/f.2010.04.14.12.53.54..5.pdf worked for me with the .. and not if I “fixed” it. The problem is that WP’s URL generator stopped copying the URL when it saw the “..”. My link should work for people.
One more try, the text in the link took precedence and got mis-converted.
This may also work, it has a “%2e.” and gets passed to the server.
You have been misinformed. The Arctic is warming faster than any place else. After a few years you will feel the runaway heat, you will be begging for air conditioning, you told me so. I believe you so please stay with the program and there is no get out of jail card free. Global warming cannot be denied and the Arctic is screaming after all. 🙂 Enjoy your jail time.
‘Talking through get hat’ ! Maybe, if she sits on her hat.
Ric Werme;
The two periods are indeed part of the URL, and work fine when it is copy-pasted.