Real Sceptic

What The Ice Cores Tell Us, And How Deniers Distort It

“Sceptics” often cite ice core data to make a point along the lines that current warming isn’t a problem and is within normal climate variability. And often they cite research papers and data to prove this point.

However almost every single time they display temperature records out of context, and more often than not come to entirely different conclusions than are in the research paper or is held by the author(s). One of the websites that’s notorious for this is the website Watts Up With That (WUWT).

One of these examples is a research paper on the Greenland Ice Sheet by Dr Richard Alley, who has publicly said that this is not what his research shows.

Cheers for Greenman3610 for making another excellent Climate Debunking Video.

Monckton Debunked By Monckton – Correlations And Himalayan Glaciers

Potholer54 posted his third video on Lord Monckton this time dealing with the assertion that CO2 has no influence on global temperature. And some of his Glaciation/Glaciers claims.

With the previous two releases on climate sensitivity and his shenanigans with citations I wish there were no more people out there that trusted his opinion. This is sadly not yet true.

“Meet the Skeptics”: Monckton Close-up Aired By BBC

The BBC Broadcast Lord Monckton tried to stop has aired in Britain and yet again it shows that Monckton is not a true sceptic. Although it’s not a full scientific debunking, it shows more the methods employed by Monckton and his inability to admit when he was wrong.

Well worth a watch if you are interested in the debate surrounding climate change. Read more

Monckton Debunked By Monckton – Climate Sensitivity

Potholer54 posted his second video on Lord Monckton and reasons why people tend to believe him. Although Monckton is a good debater, it’s again shown that Monckton gets the science horrendously wrong. And not only gets it wrong, he keeps repeating the same flaw.

For example he misrepresented a paper written by Pinker. For which he was corrected in a debate with a statement that was written by Pinker and read aloud to him explaining why he was wrong. But that didn’t stop Monckton, he repeated the exact same misrepresentation before members of congress a couple of months after this debate.

I’ve already said before that I see him as a fraud who’s deliberately misrepresenting the science, and this video shows exactly why. So from now on if anyone ever cites Monckton during a discussion with me I’ll point them to these videos.

Kansas vs. Darwin

The whole creationism and intelligent design movement and the whole discussion surrounding it in the United States was, and still is, quite the alien concept to me. With the very few things that I do know about biology, evolution and the scientific method that these proposed “theories” have absolutely no scientific merit whatsoever.

As such the documentary Kansas vs. Darwin was an eye opener. It’s a good introduction to the bid these proponents are making for getting their ideas taught in schools. And the whole mindset surrounding it. A good watch if you are interested in these subjects.

Best of all, you can see the whole documentary for free till the 12^th of March.