[Coral-List] Copenhagen flop revisited: Gene Shinn again confusingweather and climate
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
oveh at uq.edu.au
Tue Oct 27 02:38:49 EDT 2009
Well said John. This sort of unsophisticated viewpoint is simply
misleading.
Regards,
Ove
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Smart State Premier's Fellow (2008-2013), Director, Global Change
Institute; Director, Stanford Australia; Reviewing Editor at Science
Magazine, and Deputy Director, ARC Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef
Studies; BLOG: www.climateshifts.org LAB: www.coralreefecosystems.org
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confusingweather and climate
As I pointed out a few weeks ago, Gene, like many anthropogenic
climate change skeptics, is confusing weather and climate. But you
have to wonder if this ignorance is willful. It may indeed have been
cool in Florida last week. I was in Amherst, MA then and was in
shorts and a t-shirt. But both facts are irrelevant in the debate
over the role of people in the observed the climatic warming. Is that
not obvious?
That "it was cold in my home town last week!" is a very common skeptic
argument, referred to as the "it's freaking cold!" argument:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-cold-weather.htm
or the "Wagga Wagga" argument:
http://www.grist.org/article/its-cold-today-in-wagga-wagga/
as in "it's cold today in Wagga Wagga!"
You can read the overview of skeptic arguments, including links that
falsify them, I sent to the coral-list a while back here:
http://www.climateshifts.org/?p=2683
John Bruno
Associate Professor
UNC Chapel Hill
www.brunolab.net
www.climateshifts.org
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