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About LinkBacksJohn Gibbons interview with Pat Kenny last year was the first time I ever was forced to start doubting climate change. He encapsulates all that is arrogant and righteous about the worst proponents of AGW.
John Gibbons interview with Pat Kenny last year was the first time I ever was forced to start doubting climate change. He encapsulates all that is arrogant and righteous about the worst proponents of AGW.
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reinstated and apology forthcoming.
They would understandable react very defensively and try to manipulate to keep the show on the road.
''Nobody who has invested much time down a blind alley likes the messenger who shines a light at the brick wall up ahead.'' Fredrick Ross
He'd fit in well here! :mrgreen:Originally Posted by borntorum
Especially one who is patently thick. He is a PR hack, who clearly would have failed any basic science or maths course.
It is worth reposting a letter I sent to the IT complaining about noe of his more transparently stupid outbursts:
He couldn't even keep track of his own thoughts.Madam,
In his most recent puritanical lashing of the great unwashed, John Gibbons castigates those who might wonder why recent record-breaking cold weather might be so prevalent across much of the globe just at the time we are being told we are literally on the verge of roasting the planet. “Weather, in short, is not climate.” writes John. Quite so. Then why on 26 November did John write of Ireland’s recent record flooding “These weather events are being fuelled by spiralling emissions from human activity”? Maybe it is not so much knowing weather events from climate, but knowing whether events can boost your climate biases.
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Third Assessment Report: “long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
The point is that climate change appears to cause weather unpredictability. Therefore the two statements do not contradict each other, quite oppositely, extreme weather events such as unusual cold spells actually support the thesis.
Terrific article DC. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. So with Gibbons gone is there anyone with a clue writing about environmental issues in Ireland or are we stuck with oafs like Myers?
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." - Chapman Cohen.
With the knowledge that we on our planet burn every year the equivalence of 100,000s if not even 1,000,000 years of the earth's carbon history I don't ask anymore the question whether this "could have an impact" on the climate.
"Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money."
Hmmm. Notable that not a single one of the critical replies here to Gibbons engages with how the media is covering this issue and is failing to report the scientific basis for overwhelming scientific consensus.
A very strange interview. I thought the whole idea of journalism is to be skeptical and trying to provide a balanced view. This interview seems like a puff piece.
Regards...jmcc
A more accurate figure is 400 years - still unsustainable - in other words, in one year we burn through fossil fuels that formed over 400 years, as calculated by Jeffrey dukes:
Biofuels or Biofools? | Energy Bulletin
In any event, the idea that biofuels offer a magic bullet doesn't seem too likely:
Yeah, yeah, I'm a gombeen eco-nazi. (Save the pimpleheads the bother of typing. I should add it to my sig line, to save ME the bother of typing). :mrgreen:It is estimated that 40% of the earth’s annual photosynthetic productivity is already utilized by humans, largely for food and building materials, with most of the other 5-20 million species (the actual number is unknown) on the planet making do with the remaining 60%.2 Attempting to produce large quantities of biofuels will rapidly accelerate habitat destruction and the further demise of other species.
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