A few weeks ago, I stated WUWT would be moving to a “war footing” due to the election of Biden and the inevitable headlong rush into the “climate crisis” mania that seems to be gripping elected officials, media, and teachers.
They seem to really believe that the world is headed for hell in a climate handbasket – of course, we know better. We know a good portion of it is just rhetoric and unsupported by actual observations.
To that end, the only way to fight such disinformation is with factual information, and that’s why after months of development by Charles and me, I’m proud to announce the companion website to WUWT: everythingclimate.org “EC” for short.
The idea behind EC is to cover specific climate topics in a pro and con way, so that people can examine and compare, and hopefully make up their own minds. We have four categories at the moment, and a few dozen sub-titles covering specific claims/arguments that are commonly in the news and are contentious.
You may have noticed the past couple of days that the word “EverythingClimate” appeared in the top WUWT menu bar. That’s because we have WUWT integrated with EC at the menu level covering topics.
You might ask: why do we have a second website done this way?
It’s simple – I wanted a site that was entirely a factual website, without discussions that could be used as a reference. I also wanted a website that has the word “climate” in it as opposed to WUWT, which has no such word. This might be helpful in search engines. It’s certainly helpful in discussions, since climate alarmists put on blinders, shut their minds, open their mouths and scream “climate deniers” anytime WUWT is mentioned. EC doesn’t have that baggage. Finally, speaking of search engines, EC will have SEO separate from WUWT.
We aren’t going to change the climatized brain-dead, but we will be able to reach thoughtful people.
I welcome pro/con topic ideas for EC.
There’s more to come. Thanks for your support.
– Anthony
Thanks for doing this important work.
Based upon my conversations, the most cited reasons to fear enriching our air with plant food are 1) supposedly vanishing sea ice, 2) allegedly accelerating MSL rise, 3) dangerous ocean “acidification” and 4) the myth that “97% of ALL scientists” are convinced that man-made climate change poses an “existential” threat to humanity and the rest of nature.
Intelligent, well-educated professionals believe that the risks of global warming far outweigh whatever benefits from enjoying more of an essential trace gas, vital to aerobic life on the planet.
Would it be possible to purchase a subscription to EC so that the annoying ads might be avoided?
Anthony, great idea. Something along the factual content of the now-gone-except-on-wayback-machine “https://barrettbellamyclimate.com/“ is again needed. But even they were branded a “denier” site.
I would put the “Predictions” page there as that is what the scientific method is all about. Predictions, predictions and more predictions. If someone is claiming “science” then lets see their predictions.
Especially very detailed predictions with dates and temperatures. My favourite question is to specify a time frame, like 2020-2040, and ask “Hotter, Colder and by how much?”.
How about a section on the physics of GHGs? I read an interesting article the other day, “CO2 The Miracle Molecule, that supports the calculation that a further doubling of CO2 can only contribute about .7C to global temperatures. It also goes through the physics of IR absorption and shows that, yes, CO2 is a GHG, but as we ‘deniers’ have been saying for years, its effect is overwhelmed by that of H2O. I think a section showing just how GHGs actually work would be valuable.
A major barrier to imparting detailed information to the masses is that a significant proportion of the adult population is deficient in basic levels of literacy and comprehension.
Canada is an example –
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/let-s-get-digital-from-bitcoin-to-stocktok-plus-what-low-literacy-means-for-canada-s-economy-1.5873703/nearly-half-of-canadians-miss-high-school-literacy-grade-and-that-s-bad-for-economy-1.5873757
So Anthony it seems that the “KISS” approach taken by the climate carpetbaggers has much fertile ground to work.
Biden has been very blatant about his love for the California policies and regulations and wants to clone them for all of America.
Biden loves CA and is starting to impose the same inflationary costs to the other 49 states, with higher costs for electricity, fuel, and labor, all of which impacts the cost of everything else.
Discouraging America’s energy independence will have Americans beholden to foreign countries for our crude oil, like CA, and beholden to China for the mining of minerals and metals to support wind, solar, and EV battery construction.
If CA can be successful in recalling Newsom, maybe that would send a strong message to Biden and the rest of the country, that it may be best if they avoid following the deteriorating state of CA.
Hope it helps.
We need to return to real science rather than the politically correct version that responds only to the paymaster (whoever controls taxpayer revenues at any given time).
You could always just link to ‘Skeptical Science’ 🙂
Just out of curiosity, I did a Google search for Everything Climate. Of course the search did not find this site. First line on DuckDuckGo.
Impressive… Already bookmarked and I will make it a daily read. Thanks for your devotion to the truth.
It looks like Google is already blocking it in searches. Type in EverythingClimate, without quotes, and they switch it to Everything Climate, and make you click again to change the search as entered. With the initial search, I went back 10 pages, 100 results, without any results for your new site (I gave up , don’t know if it ever shows up). If you click the offered alternate search, as entered with quotes added, it comes out on top. DuckDuckGo finds the new site in all of the top 3 results, without quotes.
Great! Congratulations!
Interesting to add to the Sea Level section: the Deltares Aqua Monitor. It shows a map with details for all coasts: “Surface water changes (1985-2016)
Green and blue colors represent areas where surface water changes occurred during the last 30 years. Green pixels show where surface water has been turned into land (accretion, land reclamation, droughts). Blue pixels show where land has been changed into surface water (erosion, reservoir construction).”
WR: If sea level was rising seriously, all coasts should show a blue color, meaning ‘disappearing land’. They don’t. You can zoom in for every coast you are interested in. It is a great tool to find the real situation for specific locations.
More info: https://www.deltares.nl/en/software/aqua-monitor/
The app itself: https://aqua-monitor.appspot.com/
Climate feedback needs to be discussed, as this is the only theoretical rationalization for a climate sensitivity as high as claimed,
It’s based on a model that fails to conform to any of the preconditions for applying the analysis being used and whose use was justified by a math error confusing the feedback factor with the feedback fraction providing the illusion that the input and output of the model could have non linearly related units.
There’s also the fake ‘danger’ of runaway positive feedback.
Climate change is fully politicized down to supposed “science” published in leading journals by academics who need to get grants to pay their salaries and that of their staff (post-docs, research assistants, statisticians, programmers, secretary, etc).
The danger of politicized science described by Michael Crichton is here today in “everything climate.” And like Lysenkoism, it is consuming other disciplines in its corruption to career enabling and rentseeking behavior.
Everything climate cannot escape politics because it has been consumed by idiots from the Gretas to the Biden White House.
I will definitely check out the new site. One of the problems that I encounter, even with people that understand that most of the CAGW claims are nonsense, is the notion that “Even though the science on climate change is very uncertain, we should still avoid ‘spewing’ stuff into the air that could possibly harm us later.” Some intelligent, thoughtful people have told me this. I asked one friend, “But what if CO2 is actually beneficial?” He was skeptical that could be the case because our contributions were changing the “natural balance”. My response was, “Where do you think all that carbon in coal and oil came from? It was originally in the air, and we are just restoring it, which the plants love.” He said he would think about it. I hope he does. The deceit surrounding this entire subject is so deep and wide, it’s difficult to counter it.
The concept is sound, but there is much to do. If I understand it, the site is for the mostly uniformed, which would include teachers and students. Aim for that target audience.
Good topics might be the History of Climate (the Ice Ages and all) and the Benefits of Warming.
Too much emphasis on dispelling myths might bog the site down. The Myth Machine churns out mountains every day. Some critiquing is necessary but try not to get lost in that. WUWT does that very well, and the expert commenters have it covered, even with all the annoying trolls.
Links? There are other sites where more in-depth analysis can be found. Such as WUWT. It might not compromise the mission to add some.
As important a mission as exists in our civilization right now. The groundless hysteria has become astonishing. Just as “racism” as being used by some to destroy faith in and love for the American way of life enjoyed by most Americans of all backgrounds, so certain political activists are trying to ride environmental hysteria to political power with the destruction of our way of life as their goal.
Thank you for your efforts!
Brilliant idea, bookmarked. And right at the top and in a very prominent place have the definition of – climate. Then I would suggest looking to the two “Climate Change, The Facts” books for a start on subject matter, i.e., Problems with Policy Science, Ocean Acidification, Understanding Climate Change ….., The sun-Climate Connection, Co2 and Plant Growth, etc.
Good to see new web site. Read article on hurricanes.
How many know the history behind the Japanese use of kamakazi.
Devine Wind
The huricane that destroyed the Mongol fleet getting ready to invade Japan.
“I’m proud to announce the companion website to WUWT: everythingclimate.org “EC” for short.”
Funny, but just today I was wondering when we’d see a site to compete with the ultimate web site dedicated to put down climate skeptics at: https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php
The skepticalscience site is scathing of those not of their faith. The EC site, from what I can see is far more professional.
Dear Anthony,
good idea! Keep up the good work and spread the information!
I wold love to see a chapter about potential natural influences to the global warming.
In particular it would be great if someone could discuss the following data:
Which shows temperature changes in Great Britain in September of about 2K over 100years in good correlation with solar activity (not radiance)
I dont see how this effect could be limited to GB or September, so if this is a real phenomena the global data requires additional effects to mask this at different places and times.
Last not least the solar activity seems high in the last 100 years compared to the centuries before (there are some alarmists sites disputing this fact, which seems unbelievable!).
The section on “El Nino” seems to have been scrambled:
“However, if you remove the effect warming El Niño events in the climate record, the amount of warming since 2000, you find almost half of the global warming in the 21st century is due to El Niño events.”
???
John
Won’t do any good if search engines can hide you. They may even declare your material as dangerous hate media and ban your sites. The ability to censor is the ultimate power in control of the general population.
Wikipedia to list everythingclimate.org as a dirty denier site run by dirty deniers in 3…2…1