Global Warming Denialist Lord 'of the Dance' Monckton and geologist (not climatologist) Ian Plimer are doing a speaking tour of Australia pushed by the denialist rags in that country. To kick things of the non-science educated prick Lordy Monckton has published an open letter to the PM of Australia, Kevin Rudd. The rant is an error filled pool of tripe with the biggest error being that Monckton only puts his (wrong) calculations to 2020 - where the difference between the impact of reduced CO2 emissions is tiny. What is wrong with this is that the climate system is full of feedback loops (hence we can't avoid any warming even if we dropped emissions to zero now.) These loops mean that over time the impact increase dramatically. This is a clear case of cherry picking the data (in this case time-scales) and if you want an accesible account of why small changes lead to large impacts, the underlying ideas in James Gleick's popular science book 'Chaos' is good on that or this article.
Back to the tour - guess who is organising it? A coal company with plans to extract 5 billion tonnes of coal. As I said before; How Much is Global Warming Denial Worth? $1120 Million Per Day.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Are you sure this isn't an entertainment tour? Will he be wearing a costume?
I hope so; Jester perhaps?
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