Greens invent new day: ‘Earth Overshoot Day’: ‘In less than 8 Months, Humanity exhausts Earth’s budget for the year’
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/earth_overshoot_day/…
Watch Now: Morano on TV (humbly) promotes new climate film: ‘We are going to have the greatest climate documentary of al-l-l-l-l ti-i-i-ime!’
Morano: ‘We are shooting for entertainment value first as our goal and education as number two. We have to make this entertaining and appeal to the average viewer who does not follow climate change on a regular basis.
‘We confront UN IPCC lead author Michael Oppenheimer who claimed in a climate documentary with Tom Brokaw that skeptics were motivated by money. I got to ask him point blank — I asked him about his funding of a quarter million dollars from none other than Barbra Streisand. Oppenheimer was the climatologist to the Hollywood stars and I ask him about this on camera. And he is accusing skeptics of being motivated by funding.
We have hard hitting sections. We bring in scientists whose stories have not been told before.
Climate Hustle is set for a Fall 2014 release.
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Global-Warming Skeptics Seek Documentary, 8 Years After ‘Inconvenient Truth’ – ‘Marc Morano, a political operative and frequent guest commentator on Fox News who has tangled with many climate scientists over the years, is spearheading The Climate Hustle. The project’s website boasts that Morano was
Resigned UN IPCC Lead Author Dr. Richard Tol: ‘There are plenty of examples in history where everyone agreed and everyone was wrong’
The consensus was wrong
http://ipccreport.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/the-consensus-was-wrong
In an article in the Guardian, Richard Tol wrote that “There are plenty of examples in history where everyone agreed and everyone was wrong”. He didn’t give examples there – perhaps he thought this was so well known that it wasn’t worth commenting on, or perhaps space was too limited.
Here are a few examples of where the consensus has turned out to be wrong (thanks to @Fastcom, @intrepidwanders, @DerrickByford, @nmrqip and @Beautyon for suggesting many of these).
Yes, I know, these stories are all greatly oversimplified.
Copernicus, Galileo and the Sun. For some time after Copernicus wrote his book saying that the Earth goes round the Sun, most scientists continued to believe the opposite.
Ernst Chladni and meteorites. The consensus was that meteorites came from the earth, perhaps from volcanoes, until, around 1800, some nutter suggested they might come from outer space.
Cholera and John Snow. The consensus was that cholera was caused by ‘miasma’ – bad air, until John Snow identified a link with a contaminated water pump in the 1850s.
Semmelweis, hand-washing and puerperal fever. His results were rejected because they conflicted with the consensus of scientific opinion.
Evolution. The consensus was that God created species in a few days. Darwin was so worried about the consequences of what he’d found that he sat on it for many years.
The Aether and the speed of light. It used to be thought that light travelled at a certain speed relative to a background known as ‘aether’. Experiments and then Einstein’s theory of relativity showed that this was wrong.
Wegener and continental drift. Wegener was attacked and ridiculed for this theory.
George Zweig and quarks. The consensus was that protons and neutrons were fundamental elementary particles until Zweig and Gell-Man came up with quarks.
Barry Marshall and stomach ulcers. The consensus was that gastritis and ulcers were related to poor diet and stress. in 1984, Marshall had to ingest the bacteria, helicobacter pylori, to show he was right that this was the cause, and eventually won the Nobel Prize.
Stanley Prusiner and prions The consensus was that disease agents needed nucleic acids. Prusiner’s theory of prions in the 1980s led to incredulity, personal attacks and then a Nobel Prize.
Barbara McClintlock and “jumping genes”. Another Nobel Prize winner whose work wasn’t accepted at first because it went against received wisdom.
Maybe all those people …
Think Progress’ Latest Fear-Mongering: Climate Change Causing Expensive Olives
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2014/08/think-progress-latest-fear-mongering.html…
Gore fraud suit against Al Jazeera ‘the height of hypocrisy’ – ‘Who gets to sue Al Gore?’
‘The climate made me do it!’ Anti-coal protesters are poised to try out the ‘necessity defense’
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/08/16/the-climate-made/SyBQ7d95ZG0QoiJBHI17KK/story.html…