Potholer on the Newest Climate Denialist’s Crock
December 15, 2010
Potholer54 is over on the other side of the pond doing basically what I’m trying to do on YouTube, offer sane, balanced, well documented, reasonable, and hopefully entertaining antidotes to the horrific tide of denialist ignorance and garbage on the internet.
I’m glad Potholer had the time to take this one on- it’s a recent variant of the “CO2 is Plant Food Crock”.
Knocking down denialist myths is like shooting fish in a barrel, but there are so many barrels, and so little time. Potholer’s description and sources after the jump.
SOURCES:
Original myth published in:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/…
“‘Greener’ Climate Prediction Shows Plants Slow Warming”
NASA press release
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/feat…
Original paper:
“Quantifying the negative feedback of vegetation to greenhouse warming: A modeling approach”
L. Bounoua et al, Geophysical Research Letters, Dec 2010
Bio of Lewis Page:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/lew…
Mauna Loa CO2 growth data:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/tre…
Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO2 growth
from economic activity, carbon intensity, and
efficiency of natural sinks
— J. Canadell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007
“Probabilistic Forecast for 21st Century Climate Based on Uncertainties in Emissions (without Policy) and Climate Parameters”
— A.P. Sokolov et al, MIT 2009
Myth from the Register repeated:
http://www.openyoureyesnews.com/2010/…
…and again…
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/219…
…and again…
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/9045/Ne…
…and again…
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/…
…and again…
NASA Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Low Sensitivity To CO2 Doubling: The UN’s IPCC Global Warming Science Is Imploding
http://www.c3headlines.com/are-leftis…
…and again…
New NASA model: Doubled CO2 means just 1.64°C warming
http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/…
…and again…
NASA Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Low Sensitivity To CO2 Doubling: The UN’s IPCC Global Warming Science Is Imploding
http://www.c3headlines.com/2010/12/na…
…and again…
Greenhouse Gasses Aren’t Going To Be A Problem For Centuries Say Scientists From NASA
http://rightwingnews.com/2010/12/gree…
“Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply”
— M. Jung et al, Nature, October 2010
December 16, 2010 at 3:09 pm
A bit OT, but prominent climate-denier Tim Ball is now donning a full-on “Velikovsky” tinfoil hat. No kidding! See http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/31141 for another mother-lode of mock-worthy material.
Excerpt:
December 16, 2010 at 3:26 pm
oh, my.