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The summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the terrifying sequence of near-disasters that occurred during the past year, and are keeping their fingers ...
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The coast-to-coast college rioting and destruction that marked late April and early May should draw attention to international students and precipitate a demand from fed up citizen taxpayers that the federal government tighten up the F-1/J-1 student visa guidelines. Participating in the criminal behavior at Columbia, Penn, [...]
AG Garland MIA during Campus Upheavals
Last week, amid nationwide student protesting that threatened Jewish students and effectively shut down college campuses, twenty-seven GOP U.S. Senators sent Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona a letter urging them to restore order and shut down the antisemitic, pro-Palestine mobs. The letter [...]
Betrayed Again! Johnson Gives U.S. Workers Stick’s Short End
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Labor
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![In many respects the topic of climate change has assumed the status of a world religion and as such comes repleat with its zealous adherents and detractors as well as raising the question, is it science or is it theology?
In many respects climate change has assumed the status of a world religion replete with zealous adherents and detractors. And it raises the question, is it science or is it theology? To answer, Michael Axelrod and KMO, who come from very diverse backgrounds, examine the issue from a truly unique perspective. Buckle up prepare to nerd out on a wild ride through science and philosophy.
You can find KMO's latest book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Loathing-Kuiper-Belt-Science/dp/B0CY97N31Q/
References:
Videos.
Charlie Rose interviews Michael Crichton. While 17 years old, this interview nicely frames the current debate. Notice how Crichton sounds a lot like Koonin today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh4dIkEyfd0
Crichton wrote a novel, State of Fear, published in 2004. A novel with an Appendix and a Bibliography! He suffered a lot of flack because of the book and his public statements.
Crichton on environmentalism as a religion. In this video he’s talking to school kids who look shocked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv9OSxTy1aU
Today Climate Change in particular has become a state religion. Indeed there are politicians who want skeptics sent to prison.
Books
Unsettled. One of the best books for the general reader. No equations, no calculus needed to read and understand. Many graphs, diagrams, maps and figures. [Note: many publishers believe that equations will reduce the readership, so they discourage manuscripts with equations. Indeed equations were known as “penalty type” in the days before computer typesetting software became commonplace.]
Critical reviews of Unsettled.
Scientific American June 1 2021.
Steve Koonin’s response to the SA review. Koonin says that SA refused without reason to publish his response.
Scientific American May 21, 2021. The Reviewer Gary Yohe is an economist not a physicist. Here is his CV. I see no track record of scientific publications.
Most of the negative reviews that appear on Amazon reference Scientific American.
The Skeptical Enquirer Environmentalist. One of the very early critical books on the subject, 2001. As one would expect, Lomborg suffered an immense amount of criticism, in particular from Scientific American who refused to publish his rebuttal claiming copyright infringement. I remember one critic said he had too many references in the book! Lomborg remains an active critic of climate hysteria.
A Climate Modelling Primer. Neutral work focusing on the scientific aspects of climate modeling. (Note “modelling” is the British spelling, we use “modeling.”) This book is technical in that it has equations and one needs a little calculus to read fully, but covers the basics reader.
Websites
Whats Up With That? One of the major websites debunking climate hysteria. A good source for data refuting the extremist claims.
Sciencebits. Website of an Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv that covers a range of subjects. Here is the part of the website that deals with climate sensitivity. This section takes the reader through the physics behind the equilibrium climate sensitivity. One of the best and clearest treatments of the basics. This part discusses the politics of the subject and reaction to Shaviv’s work.
Climate Audit. Steve McIntyre is one of the most feared critics of establishment climate science because he’s very good at statistics.
Judith Curry Another heavy hitter. Formally a professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She retired from Georgia Tech because of the hostile atmosphere towards her. Scientific American describes her as a climate heretic who turned on her colleagues. Vast output of articles and interview on the subject.
On the Consensus of Climate Scientists.
Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring '97-Percent Consensus' Claims
Ninety-Nine Percent? Re-Examining the Consensus on the Anthropogenic Contribution to Climate Change.
Claimed ‘99% Consensus’ on Climate Change Demolished by New Report
Cloud Physics: The Achilles heel of climate science.
A collection of papers
The General Circulation Models can’t do the cloud physics which operate on a far smaller scale. So modelers use a variety of empirical approaches giving a variety of results. One reason the equilibrium sensitivity has a wide confidence interval. An interval that has not contracted over the years.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KCZAgljR7x0/hqdefault.jpg)
Climate Change, Science or Theology?
![In many respects the topic of climate change has assumed the status of a world religion and as such comes repleat with its zealous adherents and detractors as well as raising the question, is it science or is it theology?
In many respects climate change has assumed the status of a world religion replete with zealous adherents and detractors. And it raises the question, is it science or is it theology? To answer, Michael Axelrod and KMO, who come from very diverse backgrounds, examine the issue from a truly unique perspective. Buckle up prepare to nerd out on a wild ride through science and philosophy.
You can find KMO's latest book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Loathing-Kuiper-Belt-Science/dp/B0CY97N31Q/
References:
Videos.
Charlie Rose interviews Michael Crichton. While 17 years old, this interview nicely frames the current debate. Notice how Crichton sounds a lot like Koonin today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh4dIkEyfd0
Crichton wrote a novel, State of Fear, published in 2004. A novel with an Appendix and a Bibliography! He suffered a lot of flack because of the book and his public statements.
Crichton on environmentalism as a religion. In this video he’s talking to school kids who look shocked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv9OSxTy1aU
Today Climate Change in particular has become a state religion. Indeed there are politicians who want skeptics sent to prison.
Books
Unsettled. One of the best books for the general reader. No equations, no calculus needed to read and understand. Many graphs, diagrams, maps and figures. [Note: many publishers believe that equations will reduce the readership, so they discourage manuscripts with equations. Indeed equations were known as “penalty type” in the days before computer typesetting software became commonplace.]
Critical reviews of Unsettled.
Scientific American June 1 2021.
Steve Koonin’s response to the SA review. Koonin says that SA refused without reason to publish his response.
Scientific American May 21, 2021. The Reviewer Gary Yohe is an economist not a physicist. Here is his CV. I see no track record of scientific publications.
Most of the negative reviews that appear on Amazon reference Scientific American.
The Skeptical Enquirer Environmentalist. One of the very early critical books on the subject, 2001. As one would expect, Lomborg suffered an immense amount of criticism, in particular from Scientific American who refused to publish his rebuttal claiming copyright infringement. I remember one critic said he had too many references in the book! Lomborg remains an active critic of climate hysteria.
A Climate Modelling Primer. Neutral work focusing on the scientific aspects of climate modeling. (Note “modelling” is the British spelling, we use “modeling.”) This book is technical in that it has equations and one needs a little calculus to read fully, but covers the basics reader.
Websites
Whats Up With That? One of the major websites debunking climate hysteria. A good source for data refuting the extremist claims.
Sciencebits. Website of an Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv that covers a range of subjects. Here is the part of the website that deals with climate sensitivity. This section takes the reader through the physics behind the equilibrium climate sensitivity. One of the best and clearest treatments of the basics. This part discusses the politics of the subject and reaction to Shaviv’s work.
Climate Audit. Steve McIntyre is one of the most feared critics of establishment climate science because he’s very good at statistics.
Judith Curry Another heavy hitter. Formally a professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She retired from Georgia Tech because of the hostile atmosphere towards her. Scientific American describes her as a climate heretic who turned on her colleagues. Vast output of articles and interview on the subject.
On the Consensus of Climate Scientists.
Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring '97-Percent Consensus' Claims
Ninety-Nine Percent? Re-Examining the Consensus on the Anthropogenic Contribution to Climate Change.
Claimed ‘99% Consensus’ on Climate Change Demolished by New Report
Cloud Physics: The Achilles heel of climate science.
A collection of papers
The General Circulation Models can’t do the cloud physics which operate on a far smaller scale. So modelers use a variety of empirical approaches giving a variety of results. One reason the equilibrium sensitivity has a wide confidence interval. An interval that has not contracted over the years.](https://instituteforsoundpublicpolicy.org/wp-content/plugins/youtube-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
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