The Lomborg Deception? Howard Friel

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The Lomborg Deception? Howard Friel

The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming

The Lomborg Deception - Friel Howard Lovejoy Thomas E. - Yale University Press

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/HFResponseToLomborgFeb262010.pdf


very interesting...

 

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Friel’s book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg’s controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborg’s textual claims and supporting footnotes reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed mainly by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right—even if somewhat conservatively right—all along. Friel’s able defense of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborg’s repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading.

The Lomborg Deception - Friel Howard Lovejoy Thomas E. - Yale University Press
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http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/HFResponseToLomborgFeb262010.pdf

maybe gotta get up to speed on this

 

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Observing the records of the predictions by the sceptics and the scientists, one can only say that the scientists record on predictions is far better than that of the sceptics. For, from 1980 to 2000, the sceptics were insisting that nothing at all was happening, then, as they could no longer deny the warming, they changed their tune to 'It's all natural', but could not name what natural forces were involved.

Pubs.GISS Hansen et al. 1981 Climate impact of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide


Publication Abstracts
Hansen et al. 1981
Hansen, J., D. Johnson, A. Lacis, S. Lebedeff, P. Lee, D. Rind, and G. Russell, 1981: Climate impact of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Science, 213, 957-966, doi:10.1126/science.213.4511.957.

The global temperature rose 0.2°C between the middle 1960s and 1980, yielding a warming of 0.4°C in the past century. This temperature increase is consistent with the calculated effect due to measured increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Variations of volcanic aerosols and possibly solar luminosity appear to be primary causes of observed fluctuations about the mean trend of increasing temperature. It is shown that the anthropogenic carbon dioxide warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century, and there is a high probability of warming in the 1980s. Potential effects on climate in the 21st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part of a shifting of climatic zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.

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