Comments on: Re-Energized

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:33:05 +0000

Your work is much appreciated. Glad to hear you have a new found sense of energy/passion. Keep up the good work and thank you again.

By: Highlander

Highlander — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:02:51 +0000

As with all things natural: The effect can ~never~ overcome the cause.

By: Pedro X

Pedro X — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:20:34 +0000

The climate alarmist / skeptic blogs have their uses even if most of what they say is ignored by the other side.

The summary document you wrote is really is good. Pat Michael’s Climate of Extremes is better, but from the skeptic side your book is short, sharp and worth reading and free.

The issue will be decided by the thermometer, not climate audit or WUWT or real climate. We’re going to get to see what the result of increased human output of C02 is. The Chinese, the world’s number one emitters of C02, have little interest in what the West chooses to do.

But, should the thermometer fail to show increases at least upwards of 0.2 C / decade over the next 20-30 years then the consensus will change. It’s important that the arguments for why that may be the case are detailed as the climate blogs do. The skeptic blogs also allow people who are skeptical but haven’t read much to find out about the issue from the skeptics side.

It would also be very interesting to see what the US and other administrations are really saying internally also. They might put out press releases saying certain things, but serious cuts in emissions would be very hard to sell politically. The Europeans with their enthusiasm have not managed to cut emissions significantly since about 2001 or so.

By: Jeff11

Jeff11 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:08:44 +0000

@Hunter “You’ve endeavoured as an idiot to mislead other idiots. You don’t understand the science! What on earth makes you think you do?”

Aren’t you the guy who pretends to be a scientist yet don’t even understand simple things like the difference between positive feedback and amplification? Looks like your ad hominem describes you better than it does the blog host.

I’ve read this blog for ages but have never seen you (or your sock puppets) post a single, solitary bit of “science”… Just abuse and ad hominems. Why do you bother? You just make yourself look like an abusive, ignorant fool.

By: MJL

MJL — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:24:24 +0000

Nice ad-hominem attack, Hunter. I read articles and blogs on both sides of this issue, including those by meteorologists and climate specialists. These lead me to believe this site is essentially correct in most of its analyses. What have you to contribute, other than bile?

By: Hunter

Hunter — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:54:20 +0000

“I have endeavored as a layman to help other laymen understand the key issues in the science”

Nope. You’ve endeavoured as an idiot to mislead other idiots. You don’t understand the science! What on earth makes you think you do?

By: stan

stan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:18:25 +0000

Look at all the people who have tried to leave comments or questions at realclimate and never get posted. There is no interplay because the alarmists will not allow it. WUWT, Climate Audit, and Airvent all accomodate alarmists and often allow and even invite alarmists to post their own complete posts on their sites.

The alarmists have the news media in their pockets. Why would they engage with skeptics? It only gives the skeptics the opportunity to blow holes in their propaganda. Same reason they never agree to debate.

Roger Pielke, Jr has pointed out the serious misrepresentations in this latest pile of garbage. And he’s an alarmist. Still won’t change anything, though. Expect to see the same quality debate in the news media which we get on every other big political issue — none. It will be all propaganda, all the time.

By: Steve H.

Steve H. — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:10:32 +0000

I am glad you are not burned out as I very much enjoy reading here not just your blogs but the responces as well. I personally think that the input of CO2 by humans could go either way. Many might look at this as idiotic but I have been reading and listening to climate raving for over 30 years and believe that the fact is the climate will change. That is just fact and this is with or without human intervention. My belief at this time is that currently the earth (without the human influx of CO2) could go back into a very cold period but with the human influx of CO2 we might just be preventing it. I have no scietific facts just hunches based on the last 30 something years of reading and listening. Now let the badgering begin!