A selection of stories helping to destroy the hoax one brick at a time.
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| Myron Ebel |
Donald Trump is tapping a high-profile climate change skeptic to lead administration transition efforts for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Myron Ebell, director of energy and environment policy at the conservative think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute, is heading Trump’s EPA transition preparation, E&E Daily reported Monday.
Ebell is an outspoken, longtime skeptic of the scientific consensus that human activity is dramatically changing the climate. He often refers to warnings about global warming as climate “alarmism” and is a vocal critic of President Obama’s climate change regulations.
Ebell has argued that the Clean Power Plan is illegal and that the Paris climate change agreement is unconstitutional.
Trump also doubts that human activity causes climate change.
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A terrific rebuttal by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, William M. Briggs, David R. Legates, Anthony Lupo, Istvan Marko, Dennis Mitchell, and Willie Soon, to an open letter signed by 375 members of the NAS. It answers the riddle:
Q: How many honest scientists does it take to refute 375 left-wing advocates pretending to be scientists?
Answer: 7.
An open letter about climate politics from seven responsible climate researchers and
friends of Science
Some 375
political activists attached to the National Academy of Sciences, supporting
the totalitarian view on the climate question, have issued an open letter
saying we “caused most of the historical increase in atmospheric levels of
heat-trapping greenhouse gases”.
We influence
climate by returning to the air carbon dioxide that was there before. But so do
termites, by emitting more methane than all the world’s farm animals combined.
So do plants, by breathing carbon dioxide and returning oxygen to the air. So
does the Sun, by supplying the Earth’s radiant energy. So do volcanoes, by
ejecta that shade the Earth from the Sun. So do the oceans, by helping to keep
the Earth’s temperature extraordinarily stable for more than 800,000 years.
The
activists say we are warming the oceans. But even the worst assessment says
this is just 1 degree Celsius every 430 years.
The
activists say we are warming the lower atmosphere. Yet all data shows the
atmosphere is warming at less than half the rate originally predicted by the
error-prone Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The
activists say the oceans are “acidifying”. The truth is that we have no idea
whether or at what rate the oceans are “acidifying”. What is known, however, is
that the oceans are pronouncedly alkaline and are so powerfully buffered that
alkaline they must remain.
The
activists say our influence on climate is evident in “altered rainfall
patterns”: but there is little or no
evidence of a link between our industries and enterprises on the one hand and
global rainfall patterns on the other.
The
activists say we are to blame for retreating Arctic sea ice. But Arctic sea ice
variations, if objectively quantified with proper error estimates, are fully
within the large natural range of changes that have no need of any unique
explanation by rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. In addition Antarctic sea
ice, which they forget, has largely offset the loss of Arctic ice.
The
activists declare their faith in the doctrine “that the problem of human-caused
climate change is real, serious and immediate, and that this problem poses
significant risks” to everything from national security via health and
agriculture to biodiversity. But this
statement is based wholly on faith and is unsupported by reality. We know this
because of the serially failed predictions made by the activists. Good science
makes accurate predictions.
The
activists say, “We know that the climate system has tipping points”. Yet,
revealingly, “Tipping point” is not a scientific but a political term. The
activists say that “rapid warming of the planet increases the risk of crossing
climatic points of no return”, but there is no evidence for rapid warming of
the planet today.
The
activists say warmer weather will “possibly” set in motion “large-scale ocean
circulation changes”. The scientific truth is that, while the wind blows, the
Earth rotates and its land-masses are approximately where they are, the ocean
circulation must remain much as it is now. To suggest otherwise is mere
rodomontade.
Scientists,
like other citizens, are entitled and even encouraged to take part in the
political process. This applies to non-citizens, which many of the 375 are.
What scientists must not do, however, is pretend, as the activists did, that
their totalitarian point of view is unchallengeable. In all material respects,
unfolding events have proven their extremist viewpoint prodigiously exaggerated
at best, plain wrong at worst.
Though the
activists have attempted – falsely and improperly – to convey the impression that
it is somehow illegal, immoral or damaging to the planet to vote for the
Republican party’s candidate in the forthcoming Presidential Election because
he disagrees with the totalitarian position on the climate question that they
espouse with such religious fervor and such disregard for science, in truth it
is not the business of scientists to abuse the authority of their white
lab-coats by collectively suggesting that “Science” demands the voters should
or should not cast their vote in any particular direction.
Therefore, the
signatories hereto repudiate the letter issued by the 375 activists as
reflecting not scientific truth but quasi-religious dogma and totalitarian
error; we urge the voters to disregard that regrettable and anti-scientific
letter; and we invite every citizen to make up his or her own mind whom to
elect to the nation’s highest office without fear of the multifarious bugaboos
conjured into terrifying but scientifically unjustifiable existence by the
totalitarian activists who have for decades so disrespected, disgraced and
disfigured climate science.
Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, William
M. Briggs, David R. Legates, Anthony Lupo, Istvan Marko, Dennis Mitchell, and
Willie Soon
