By: dana1981
I have a hard time understanding why Vahrenholt and Lüning have gotten so much media attention for their contrarian views, which are simply based on a lack of understanding of basic climate science and...
View ArticleBy: Marco
Dana, it really is not hard to understand: controversy is interesting for the media, especially if you can add an Appeal to Authority (or the like). It stirs emotions and gets attention. “there is no...
View ArticleBy: facepalm
Dana, Fahrenholt has a special history in Germany: He has a degree in chemistry and authored some well-known books, e.g. “Seveso is everywhere – the deadly risks of chemistry” that made big splash in...
View ArticleBy: Paul Kelly
I tried commenting the other day and it wouldn’t post. Trying now.didn’t
View ArticleBy: Paul Kelly
Eli, It looks like we’re on our own here. Nature’s How to talk to a denier article made the case for replacing the info deficit model with a focus on cooperative effort model. The reaction to it is...
View ArticleBy: Jeff Condon
“It’s telling that no physics-based climate model has been developed that can simulate past and recent climate changes without a substantial warming effect from an increase in greenhouse gas...
View ArticleBy: Bart
Jeff, You ask for something that you know the answer to yourself: We have imperfect knowledge of past climate through proxies of many different kinds (including but not limited to icecores,...
View ArticleBy: Kath MacDonald
Excellent post and much appreciated. I have far too many acquaintances that are buying into what Vahrenholt has proclaimed. Nice to see some common sense in a response to his argument.
View ArticleBy: thomaswfuller2
HIya Bart, Are you going to post on the new survey? I’m very interested.
View ArticleBy: Bart
Hi Tom, see the new post about the <a href="http://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/climate-science-survey-questions/" rel="nofollow">climate science survey questions</a>.
View ArticleBy: Aleksander
Fritz Varenholts book is a corageous, well documented and much needed statement of the real fact behind all the propaganda and manipulated science from IPCC.
View ArticleBy: Summer Joyner
Die Kalte Sonne’s popularity reflects a growing skepticism among the German public about the likelihood of climate catastrophe. Today only 31 per cent of Germans are afraid of global warming. In 2006,...
View ArticleBy: Kelvin Spyres
Global warming has become perhaps the most complicated issue facing world leaders. Warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increasing body of science points to rising dangers...
View ArticleBy: Frederick Colbourne
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I believe that the meaning of your header is that extraordinary evidence is what is required to falsify the null hypothesis. So what is the null...
View ArticleBy: Bart Verheggen
Extraordinary claims are claims that are deemed very unlikely in light of the current body of evidence. it needs extraordinary evidence, ie evidence that is stronger than and opposite to the whole body...
View ArticleBy: SteveSalmony (@SteveSalmony)
Recalling a message uploaded on 11/ 11/ 11 that still seems relevant because so little necessary behavioral change has occurred in the past few years.
View ArticleBy: Mike
Since this article and most of the comments date from around four years ago, I wonder how the latest data will affect the discussion. Events such as the growing ice cap?
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