Saturday, January 28, 2012

Michael Mann on Climate Change

The 100th post in this blog, on Michael Mann…
Well - I saved you all a lot of time. (Although if you do decide to watch the whole thing, it may be useful to realise that you can incease speed of lecture to e.g. 1.4 or 1.6 x normal speed.)

Mann shows observed temperatures following "scenario B" with uncanny accuracy - but stops the observations in 2005. Lots of alarming images: Cooling towers belching steam, Polar bear on shrinking ice floe, House teetering on cliff edge.

Comparisons with tobacco industry.

Shows the Hockey stick - but does not actually explain hide the decline at the same time.
Shows 12 independent reconstructions from proxy data, followed by "modern observations" without making it clear that proxy data stops.

Introduces new terminology: Scientization of politics?

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