300,000 Climate death claim’s ‘questionable assertions and exaggerated nature…have gone unremarked on by environmental bloggers’
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Spin: 300,000 death claim author’s say number ‘should be treated as indicative rather than definitive’
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BBC: 300,000 death ‘report contains so many extrapolations derived from guesswork based on estimates inferred from unsuitable data sets’
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Society has ‘traded Barney the Dinosaur, for Al Gore and Big Bird for David Suzuki’
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Economist: ‘Real threat to humanity comes from governments growing ever more powerful in the name of fighting climate change’
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Update: Burger King cracks down: ‘Global Warming is baloney’ sign does not reflect a Burger King Corp. opinion or view.’
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Scientist Schneider who boasted he could ‘slaughter’ skeptics in debate backs off…’I certainly will not schedule some political show debate in front of a non-scientific audience’
Professor Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, a prominent proponent of man-made global warming fears, appears to be backing off of his boast that he could “slaughter” skeptical scientists in a global warming debate. In a May 24, 2009 interview, Schneider publicly boasted any skeptical scientist would be “slaughtered in public debate” against him.
But after many dissenting scientists happily took up the debate challenge, it now appears Schneider is shying away from any such debate.
“I certainly will not schedule some political show debate in front of a non-scientific audience,” Schneider told the San Francisco Examiner in a follow up June 1, 2009 article.
“A presidential like debate format with shallow staccato jibes and no nuanced arguments, no–confusion only in that style. I never do those anymore,” Schneider explained.
Former Colorado State Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. publicly accepted Schneider’s global warming debate challenge just days after it was issued. “I would be glad to debate Dr. Schneider…he represents a narrow perspective on climate science,” Pielke Sr. said on May 24, 2009. [Editor’s Note: Climate Depot was copied on many emails from scientists writing to Professor Schneider accepting his debate challange and Climate Depot also received numerous notes from many scientists eager to accept Schneider’s debate challenge in the past week.]
“If [Climatologist] Roger [Pielke Sr.] wants a debate, he can set one up at the American Meteorological Society meeting or the American Geophysical Union meeting and if dates work I’ll be happy to go and will encourage others like Ben Santer or Kevin Trenberth to join in. That I would do,” Schneider now asserts.
Schneider explained: “Some of the skeptics are going ballistic over my admittedly too provocative word ‘slaughter’–though given the framing I said I believe it would happen. But they misquote me in saying I challenged them to a debate. I challenged them to go to a legitimate scientific meeting with a knowledgeable audience and challenge from the floor with a room full of experts. I think they would be pretty unhappy with the outcome.”
Update: Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo weighs in on Schneider’s “terms” for a global warming debate.
“In other words, like the sports teams that prefer to play in the friendly confines of their home park than at a hostile away team’s stadium, Schneider insists on having the debate at one of the conferences attended by grant toting …
Climate lawsuits the ‘New Asbestos’: ‘Could expand faster than explosion of asbestos claims — Significant impact on insurers’
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Virtual observatory to monitor life on planet to chart changes in distribution of species because of global warming
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German meteorologist rejects ‘hypothesis of CO2 dominance on the climate’
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