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A climate-change heretic! He should be burned at the ... er, warmed at the stake:

One of the most decorated French geophysicists has converted from a believer in manmade catastrophic global warming to a climate skeptic. This latest defector from the global warming camp caps a year in which numerous scientific studies have bolstered the claims of climate skeptics. Scientific studies that debunk the dire predictions of human-caused global warming have continued to accumulate and many believe the new science is shattering the media-promoted scientific “consensus” on climate alarmism.

Meanwhile, more than one-third of government cash earmarked for Australian global warming projects has not been spent. Good.

Posted by Tim B. on 10/19/2006 at 01:21 PM
  1. Sorry, Tim, no heat sources allowed.  All that carbon from burning a human being?  Aiiieeeeee!!!  Mother Gaia™ will be very angry.

    May I suggest stoning?  That appears to be on a level that Mother Gaia™‘s adherents understand, and hey!, the rocks are recyclable.  It’s a win-win scenario.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 19 at 02:05 PM • permalink

  2. Man, the court docket at the World Court is going to be jam-packed with all these globalwarmingcoolingclimatechange denial conversions.  At the rate they conduct trials, too, they’ll be busy well into the 22 century.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 10 19 at 02:06 PM • permalink

  3. Skeptics consist mostly of scientists who have seen computer models built.

    The answer to questions you can’t answer is either (a) do something else, or (b) build a computer model.

    The latter has its own career trajectory advantages, but is not science.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 10 19 at 02:56 PM • permalink

  4. Science minded People might like to read “A New Kind of Science” which goes into enormous depth about computer modelling.

    Climate change models all suffer from an exponentional increase in error accumulation.  They basically can never have a correlation with the real world.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 10 19 at 03:06 PM • permalink

  5. My god, what do you people not understand.  Professor Quigley has ruled that the argument is over!

    (writes check out to Monsier Givemoigivemoi for consulting services rendered, must get Karl’s approval)

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 19 at 03:29 PM • permalink

  6. Following #4, it is sensitive dependence on initial conditions…

    ...that is why meteorologists cannot generate (with confidence) a weather forecast much beyond 4-5 days.  Let alone the earth’s climate in 50 years.

    Granted, there is a difference between short-term models that predict micro-climate and long-term models that predict macro-trends.

    But the weather forecast situation serves as a reminder of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, and that lon-term modelling/prediction must be taken with many many grains of salt.

    Posted by closeapproximation on 2006 10 19 at 07:39 PM • permalink

  7. One more thought criminal.

    Posted by moptop on 2006 10 19 at 09:42 PM • permalink

  8. Meanwhile, more than one-third of government cash earmarked for Australian global warming projects has not been spent.

    The Australian Greenhouse Office hasn’t been able to spend anywhere near the amount of money it’s been given for many years now - something unheard of in Canberra - in spite of hiring huge numbers of people who don’t seem to do anything but attend conferences on gloabl worming in hotspots such as Paris, Vienna, Stockholm and Venice.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 19 at 10:17 PM • permalink

  9. Nice up-to-date summary there. There’s hope for us yet, though will I live to see a time when industry and prosperity aren’t looked upon as sin? Probably not - the human race has been fascinated with its condemnation of pleasure ever since Eve offered Adam the apple.

    Now, TRJ, more importantly: tell me how you do superscript!

    Posted by Dminor on 2006 10 20 at 02:02 AM • permalink

  10. Dminor, you have to use HTML entities, which use a special sequence of characters. 

    For example, ™ is “&” + “trade” + “;”, all together.  This way, you can do ®, ¶, or even ¢!

    The link has a table of the available characters. 

    If you go here, you will see how to format for color, size, or both.

    Have fun!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 20 at 09:24 AM • permalink

  11. Don’t try those without using preview. This site would look awfully funny in bold pink.

    Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 10 20 at 10:24 AM • permalink

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