As he has done numerous times this year, Dana hits another denier softball out of the park with the posting of Matt Ridley Risk Management Failure Deja Vu. As the body of sound scientific evidence about the realities of manmade climate change grows exponentially, the folk inhabiting Deniersville double-down and regurgitate a body of pseudoscience that has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked.
"Take any one of these events in isolation, it might be possible to yell `fluke!' Take them collectively, it provides confirmation of precisely what climate scientists predicted would happen decades ago if we proceeded with business-as-usual fossil fuel burning, as we have," Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann said in an email. "And this year especially is a cautionary tale. What we view today as unprecedented extreme weather will become the new normal in a matter of decades if we proceed with business-as-usual."
2012 Extreme Weather Sets Records, Fits Climate Change Forecasts by Seth Borenstein, AP/The Huffington Post, Dec 20, 2012
The SkS iPhone App was featured in an article by the San Jose Mercury News.
John Cook's Sun and climate moving in opposite directions, says leaked IPCC report was published at The Conversation.
The Climate Progress debunking of Matt Ridley's WSJ nonsense referenced the SkS climate sensitivity page. A Media Matters debunking of the same article referenced several SkS ocean heat content resources.
Gunnar's Italian flag curry was re-posted by Citizen's Challenge.
Dana's IPCC Draft Report Leaked, Shows Global Warming is NOT Due to the Sun was referenced in a Mother Nature Network article on the subject, and also one by Media Matters.
A story about a climate denying Indiana regulator helping coal companies delay EPA climate rules on AlterNet, referenced several SkS myth rebuttals.
Daily Kos referenced the SkS page on the link between hurricanes and global warming.
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Posted by John Hartz on Monday, 24 December, 2012
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