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2013 SkS Weekly Digest #37
Posted on 15 September 2013 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
Global Warming's Missing Heat: Look Back In Anger (and considerable disbelief) by gpwayne attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Dana's Debunking 97% Climate Consensus Denial drew the second highest number of comments.
Toon of the Week
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists
Quote of the Week
"At this point, 70 to 75 percent of Americans understand that global warming is very real, and the need to do something about it," (Bill) McKibben said. "The trick at this point is not to convert the other 25 percent. The fight is to get those who do know what's going on as active and engaged as possible."
Author warns about climate change at CA conference AP/San Francisco Chronicle, Sep 14, 2013
SkS Week in Review
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #37B by John Hartz
- Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph by Dana
- Global Warming’s Missing Heat: Look Back In Anger (and considerable disbelief)… by gpwayne
- Global imprint of climate change on marine life by John Bruno
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #37A by John Hartz
- Arctic sea-ice 'growth', a manufactured IPCC 'crisis' and more: David Rose is at it again by John Mason
- Debunking 97% Climate Consensus Denial by Dana
Coming Soon on SkS
- What is causing global warming? Look for the fingerprints (John Abraham)
- Why trust climate models? It’s a matter of simple science (Scott K Johnson)
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #38A (John Hartz)
- The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report (Dana)
- Moncking up the Numbers (Rob Honeycutt)
- The 2012 State of the Climate is easily misunderstood (MarkR)
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #38B (John Hartz)
In the Works
- How did Ancient Coral Survive in a High CO2 World? (Rob Painting)
- Why Atmospheric CO2 matters: The Really Big Picture (Chris Colose)
SkS in the News
Seth MacFarlane Tweeted Dana's Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph.
The Arctic Escalator was used by Climate Progress, Open Parachute, and Media Matters.
The Cook et al. (2013) 97% consensus paper was referenced in Sharman (2013), The Age, TreeHugger, and The Guardian.
Graham Readfearn at the Guardian referenced Dana's DenialGate Highlights Heartland's Selective NIPCC Science.
Graham also referenced Monckton Myths on his own blog, as did HotWhopper.
Dana's Debunking 97% Climate Consensus Denial was re-posted on The Conspiracy Index.
Greg Laden made use of some SkS graphics in debunking climate denial from CNBC's Joe Kernen.
SkS Spotlights
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I find that the story that "attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week" is actually the one that got the most trolls posting. I'm not sure that's something to highlight. Maybe remove that line?
[JH] My purpose is to highlight "where the action is" re comment chatter. In that context, a comment is a comment.
Exactly moderator! The more trolls that comment is a fair indicator of the fear these same trolls have in the veracity of the real information in that story. This also gives a a better measure of the 97% as the tiny minority still loudly decry its insignificance! Bert
I sort of agree with numerobis because quantity is not quality and sometimes I don't have time to read the trolls and debunk them, espetially if the troll authors are helpless and the best tactic is "don't feed the troll". So "trolling threads" could be indicated as such.
I noticed that recent trolls are evolving around "GW has stopped since 1997" and Cook at al 2013 about 97% consensus. I don't understand the reason for the former because science is so simple in our debunkings. The latter suggests poor understanding of statistics and polling techniques in general public, so there is something to do in that area.
I remember other weeks with proliferate scientific discussions both explaining and complementing the articles. But this week lacks them.
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