Ventures into scepticism
You know that feeling you get when you ask pointed questions about somebody’s goofy beliefs? The strange looks people will give? The cold shoulders and ended friendships? The life of a sceptic can be quite hard. But can also be extremely rewarding.
And to celebrate life’s little ‘challenges’ that we sceptics face, a little song to remind us that we shouldn’t always take ourselves too seriously.
Lord Monckton has again garnered some attention, this time due to a debate with Richard Denniss, an economist. A debate that was organised by the National Press Club and was held on the 19th of July.
This debate is already doing it’s rounds on websites like Watts Up With That and has been heralded as a victory by these so called climate sceptics. I’ve watched this one hour long debate in full and I can say it wasn’t a victory for them. It was Monckton yet again repeating his well known, and faulty, talking points.
For example when Jennifer Bennett from Campus Review asked the question why he hasn’t published any peer reviewed articles if he’s so sure about his position. And he got all huffy after this question was posed and he slapped her down with saying he is peer reviewed and that she should do her homework. Read more
Apparently people have found something new and interesting to use as evidence against global warming, albeit a bit different than a cold winter. This time it’s a potential drop in solar activity that will counteract all the warming we have seen. And will very likely, according to them, put us in a new little ice age.
It is true that during a meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society an announcement was made that the sun might enter an extended period of low activity. A period similar to the Maunder minimum, which is also known as the Little Ice Age.
During the maunder minimum temperatures were lower than normal, predominantly in the northern hemisphere and most noticeable lower during the winter. And the lower solar-activity at the time has long been suspected as one of the major causes of this. Although other factors, like strong volcanic eruptions, played a role in lowering temperatures.
