2012 SkS Weekly Digest #8

SkS Highlights

Monckton's constant problems misreading - and consequently misrepresenting - the climate science literature is documented in detail in the three part post, Monckton Misrepresents Scientists' Own Work, collaboratively written by Dana, Alex C and Tom Curtis. As to be expected, this set of articles generated numerous comments. Uncertainty Is Not the Basis for Investment by JG also generated a lot of attention. Satellites find over 500 billion tons of land ice melting worldwide every year, headlines focus on Himalayas by Mark R may have set the SkS record for longest title a posted article.

Toon of the Week

Issue of the Week

SkS plans to create an inventory of similar websites that provide quality and timely information about manmade climate change and its consequences. In this context, what are the top five sites (in addtion to SkS itself) that you regularly go to for such information? To help us put your listing into perspective, also please tell us what country you reside in.

The Week in Review

A complete listing of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. 

• Climate change models underestimate future temperature variability; food security at risk by John Hartz
• German translation of The Debunking Handbook by John Cook
• Monckton Misrepresents Reality (Part 3) by Dana, Alex C and Tom Curtis.
• Radiative Balance, Feedback, and Runaway Warming by Chris Colose
• Satellites find over 500 billion tons of land ice melting worldwide every year, headlines focus on Himalayas by Mark R
• Scafetta's Widget Problems by Dana and Dikran Marsupial
• Monckton Misrepresents Specific Situations (Part 2) by Dana, Alex C and Tom Curtis.
• Uncertainty Is Not the Basis for Investment by jg
• New research from last week 7/2012 by Ari Jokimäki
• Monckton Misrepresents Scientists' Own Work (Part 1) by Dana, Alex C and Tom Curtis.

 Coming Soon

A list of articles that are in the SkS pipeline. Most of these articles, but not necessarily all, will be posted during the week.

• DenialGate - Highlighting Bob Carter's Selective Science (Dana)
• New research from last week 8/2012 (Ari Jokimäki)
• Greenhouse Effect Basics: Warm Earth, Cold Atmosphere (Tom Curtis)
• The Independence of Global Warming on Residence Time of CO2 (Dikran Marsupial)
• Wall Street Journal's "Gang of 16" misrepresents IPCC projections (keithpickering)
• The Certainty Monster vs. the Uncertainty Ewok (Dana)
• A Sunburnt Country (Glenn Tramblyn)
• The History of Climate Science - William Charles Wells (Doc Snow)
• Methane - Part 1 (Agnostic)

SkS Spotlights 

DeSmogBlog exists to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science on climate change.

An overwhelming majority of the world’s climate scientists agree that the globe is warming - the world's climate is changing - and that the indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels is to blame. We know that the risks are incalculable and, increasingly, we understand that the solutions are affordable.

Unfortunately, a well-funded and highly organized public relations campaign is poisoning the climate change debate. Using tricks and stunts that unsavory PR firms invented for the tobacco lobby, energy-industry contrarians are trying to confuse the public, to forestall individual and political actions that might cut into exorbitant coal, oil and gas industry profits. DeSmogBlog is here to cry foul - to shine the light on techniques and tactics that reflect badly on the PR industry and are, ultimately, bad for the planet.

Posted by John Hartz on Monday, 27 February, 2012

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