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2011-04-06 01:59:27 | Christy Crocks Series - who's got dibs? | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
John and I think we should do a Christy Crocks series similar to Monckton Myths, using Christy's recent congressional testimony. Here are the myths I transcribed from his testimony, feel free to call dibs on doing a blog post on any of them: 1) "[the hockey stick] was the icon of the TAR, the Third Assessment Report, and what the tree ring record did, in showing it did not agree with temperatures, indicated that the icon itself, which was based primarily on tree rings prior to the 16th century, was therefore not very good at explaining what the temperature was." (John's got it). 2) "I think I might like it warmer actually" (too vague) 3) "When you look at the possibility of natural unforced variability, you see that can cause excursions that we've seen recently" (Albatross and Dana) 4) "I think there's been too much jumping to conclusions about seeing something happening in the climate and saying 'well the only way that can happen is human effects'" (grypo) 5) "I think the consistency [between now and 1970s cooling predictions]...there's a large amount of ignorance about the climate system." (I already took this one as Christy Crock #1) 6) "I can say that there certainly hasn't been a warming of temperatures since [1998]." (Robert Way has dibs) 7) "If you go back through the entire history of the world, most of the periods have not been cooler than today, they've been warmer." (Robert Way has dibs) 8) "Greenland ice borehole temperatures...indicated a clear 500 year period of temperatures warmer than the present centered around 900 AD commonly referred to as the Medieval Warm Period." (Rob H perhaps?) 9) "you're looking at most at a tenth of a degree [reduction in global temperature] after 100 years [if USA imposes CO2 limits]" (I'll probably do this one, since I did "CO2 limits will have little effect") 10) "climate model output does not match up to the real world" (James) 11) "this issue has policy implications that may potentially raise the price of energy a lot, and thus essentially the price of everything else." (Dana) 12) "Evidence was presented by Dr. Ross McKitrick and others indicated the popular surface temperature data sets were affected by warming not likely to be caused by greenhouse gases." 13) "The hockey stick's author was the same IPCC lead author who in my opinion worked with a small group of cohorts and misrepresented the temperature record of the past 1,000 years by promoting his own result...allowing amputation of a disagreeable result, and the splicing of unrelated data to 'hide the decline'" (John) 14) "IPCC-selected lead authors are given significant control over the text, including the authority to judge their own work against the work of their critics...this process has led to the propagation of incorrect and misleading information in the assessments, and thus should lead you to question the IPCC's general support for a catastrophic view of climate change." Like I said, if you want to do a post rebutting any of these claims, say so here. Feel free to combine multiple quotes into one post if you can. | |
2011-04-06 02:21:31 | ||
Albatross Julian Brimelow stomatalaperture@gmail... 199.126.232.206 |
Potholer and Sinclair could also have a field day with this-- Christy et al are on video saying some of these things, although I realise some of it is probably from his written testimony. Are there any plans to collaborate? #11 and #2 cold probably be addresses in the same post, as could #7 and #8, and #3 and #6 (oh the irony of using one of those natural excursions , 1998, to cherry pick a start date). | |
2011-04-06 02:34:53 | collaboration | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
Good idea on the collaborations, Albatross. Someone should check with Sinclair/potholer/etc. #3 is a little tricky because he's talking natural variability, not cycles. We have "it's natural variability" on the list, but haven't done a rebuttal on that one yet. So it would be nice to do a really good response to #3 and also make it the rebuttal. I recall reading that natural variability over periods of just a few decades generally isn't more than 0.2°C. | |
2011-04-06 03:03:19 | ||
Albatross Julian Brimelow stomatalaperture@gmail... 199.126.232.206 |
Hi Dana, "I recall reading that natural variability over periods of just a few decades generally isn't more than 0.2°C." Perhaps +/- 0.3 C at most, but yes, typically less than ~ +/- 0.2 C for a decadal time scale. | |
2011-04-06 05:51:24 | ||
Rob Painting Rob paintingskeri@vodafone.co... 118.93.217.218 |
What's the timeframe on this Dana?. Nos.2 & 7 are so stupid they irritate me!. | |
2011-04-06 05:56:28 | ||
Riccardo riccardoreitano@tiscali... 93.147.82.143 |
As for #7, the only rational reply would be that millions of years ago it as been as cold as a snowball and as hot as a hot house. Then? | |
2011-04-06 06:16:09 | timeframe | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
No specific timeframe - we'll just tackle these one at a time, whenever people have a chance. The sooner the better of course, but I don't think there's any particular rush. If you want to do one of the rebuttals, just call dibs and work on it when you have time. There are so many of them that we'll be rolling out new CC posts for a while. Regarding #7, the key of course is the context - the congressman was effectively trying to argue that because climate has been colder and hotter in the past, there's nothing unusual about the current climate (and Christy played along). It's one of those vague statements where they leave the audience to draw their own conclusions based on "common sense", i.e. "species survived hotter temperatures in the past, so global warming is nothing to worry about" or "if it was hotter before humans then current warming is probably natural". So there's a number of points we can make in response to #7. Something about CO2 being the main temp control knob would be useful. Species being adapted to whatever the current climate is at the time, whether it was hotter or colder than now. Maybe something about extinctions being linked to rapid climate change, so what we're worried about is the rate of change. And so on. | |
2011-04-06 06:43:26 | comment | |
Robert Way robert_way19@hotmail... 142.162.204.197 |
6) "I can say that there certainly hasn't been a warming of temperatures since [1998]." | |
2011-04-06 07:14:37 | Robert dibs | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
Got your dibs recorded, Robert. For the record, I'm not sure I got the quote for #2 exactly right. It was somewhat mumbled, and towards the end when I was getting a bit tired of the transcribing :-) Should probably go back and make sure the quote is right. I think he said it right after the discussion about how the climate has been hotter at most times in the past. Probably when Mo Brooks was asking questions. | |
2011-04-06 08:41:11 | Dibs on #1 | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 60.231.60.165 |
I'm sure Mike Mann would have been pulling his hair out when Christy said the Mann 99 hockey stick was reliant on tree-rings - that is a particularly frustrating bugbear for him. Hmm, that would explain his bald spot :-) BTW, the ordering is not important - so we don't have to follow Dana's numbering above. Whoever writes a CC, just take the next number along. Timing isn't important but we'll keep these flowing along similar to the Monckton Myths. I suggest a similar strategy to MM - keep posting the blog posts and keep our eyes open for a Christy related event - at that point, we'll launch the CC resource, attaching it to the event to get maximum exposure. Oh and if you see any Christy quotes not yet in our quotes database, please add them to the database. When we launch the CC resource, I'm going to reprogram it to make the Christy quotes the centrepiece. | |
2011-04-06 11:09:18 | Ordering | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 69.230.97.203 |
Agreed, the numbers above are just for reference. #5 is actually CC #1. John, you want to take #13 too? | |
2011-04-06 11:15:26 | Yes, I'll do #1 and #13 | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 60.231.60.165 |
Yep, same thing. I think Mike Mann is right - at first I was slightly skeptical when he suggested the idea but I now see there is a concerted effort to conflate the hockey stick with the decline in an effort to bring down the hockey stick. I'll handle both in the same post. I'll try to avoid the temptation to take Muller Misinformation #1 and use find and replace to change "Muller" to "Christy" :-) I think it would be a good idea to go through some of Christy's older stuff too - as you look through Christy's earlier works, be sure to add those articles to the list of Christy articles http://www.skepticalscience.com/skeptic_John_Christy.htm and take any handy quotes and add them to Christy quotes. It's looking like Christy is probably a veritable fount of misinformation and if we document the sheer amount of it, will make for a powerful message. | |
2011-04-06 15:33:03 | ||
Rob Painting Rob paintingskeri@vodafone.co... 118.93.221.247 |
I'll take no.2. Once you've sorted out exactly what he said. | |
2011-04-07 02:41:08 | ||
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
Sounds good Rob. I'll load the hearing again and see if I can track down that quote, maybe this weekend. | |
2011-04-07 05:04:20 | ||
grypo gryposaurus@gmail... 173.69.56.151 |
It'll take #3 | |
2011-04-07 05:37:13 | grypo | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
Okay grypo, got you locked in for #3 | |
2011-04-07 05:41:17 | ||
grypo gryposaurus@gmail... 173.69.56.151 |
I realize that Christy left open a wide variety of options for me to take with his terminology "excursions that we've seen recently". Is he talking about temperature? Precipitation? Extreme events? Should i just use the models from Meehl 2004 or should I get into the detailed finger print studies? What's the context? | |
2011-04-07 07:49:17 | temp | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
He was specifically referring to temperatures in that quote. He was asked if the warming could be natural, and his response was that it could just be natural variability. | |
2011-04-08 00:07:10 | ||
grypo gryposaurus@gmail... 173.69.56.151 |
Thanks. Done. | |
2011-04-08 03:26:47 | #3, #4 | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
grypo's post was more applicable to Christy's quote #4, so I've switched him to that. Internal variability is still open - I've asked if Albatross wants to tackle it. I could probably do it, but it's not a subject I'm terribly strong on. | |
2011-04-08 11:28:13 | I'll take #10 | |
James Wight jameswight@southernphone.com... 112.213.165.139 |
What was the context of that quote? Was he talking about global temperatures? | |
2011-04-08 12:41:12 | general | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 69.230.97.203 |
That was just a pretty general statement. Once he said the EPA overstated agreement "between models and observations". Later he said
He later mentioned the 'missing hot spot' and went into the bogus Douglass et al. paper. So there's a lot you could do with #10. | |
2011-04-11 04:44:44 | progress | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 69.230.97.203 |
So far we've done posts on quotes #4 and #5 with #3 on the way. So whoever does the next one, you'll have Christy Crock #4. | |
2011-04-12 13:07:20 | comment | |
Robert Way robert_way19@hotmail... 142.162.203.160 |
I might have to postpone mine, I have a thesis proposal this week to work on... | |
2011-04-13 02:01:38 | postpone | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
No problem Robert, just do it whenever you have time. The "might like it warmer" quote is a little too vague, so I think we're going to skip that one. | |
2011-04-13 03:01:46 | ||
Albatross Julian Brimelow stomatalaperture@gmail... 199.126.232.206 |
Bets of luck Robert! | |
2011-04-13 03:04:40 | ||
Albatross Julian Brimelow stomatalaperture@gmail... 199.126.232.206 |
I think that DeepClimate has actually tackled #12. The McKitrick and Michaels paper from 2004 has been contested elsewhere, most recently in a paper by Gavin Schmidt. Anyhow, McKitrick's paper is BS and should not have appeared in AR4, but they did in the end. Sad that Christy is citing debunked science. | |
2011-04-19 10:25:43 | Interview with Christy | |
oslo borchinfolab@gmail... 90.149.33.182 |
Not sure if this interview with Christy is known: http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=8563 Same reporter as the Lindzen interview. | |
2011-04-19 11:11:48 | ||
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 69.230.97.203 |
Son of a bitch. This may be even worse than his testimony. Thanks for the heads-up, Oslo. Anyone want to transcribe the quotes from this one? | |
2011-04-19 15:16:10 | ||
Albatross Julian Brimelow stomatalaperture@gmail... 199.126.232.206 |
Oslo, Awesome. Thanks for finding that. I did dig around a bit after hearing the interviewer refer to speaking with Christy recently, but apparently did not try hard enough. Dana do you want dibs on airing some of the more, um, intriguing comments on the latest Christy crock thread? Crap, 11:15 pm and i am only now starting on the Evans document! | |
2011-04-19 15:34:05 | quotes | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 69.230.97.203 |
My hand still isn't up to a lot of typing. If someone can transcribe the quotes like James did for Lindzen, I'll copy them into the Crocks thread. Again, no big rush. We've got more than enough to keep us busy! | |
2011-04-19 16:24:55 | Christy quotes | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 60.231.60.165 |
Don't forget to put any transcribed quotes into the Quotes database - this is going to be a major feature of our Skeptics resource eventually. The beauty of short quotes is it showcases misinformation in short soundbytes while providing links to more info - a nice multi-level way to present the info. | |
2011-04-19 21:33:21 | Okay, have transcribed the Christy interview | |
James Wight jameswight@southernphone.com... 112.213.169.63 |
It’s difficult to match every statement to a particular argument but here’s what I’ve got. Again, the unrebutted arguments won’t appear there so I’ll list them here (I created a new argument called “Humanity needs energy”):
It’s interesting to note that though Christy was speaking as a climate expert he quickly moved on to ranting about economics and energy. I’ve transcribed the Barnaby Joyce quotes too but haven’t yet got around to adding them to the database. | |
2011-04-20 01:58:16 | thanks | |
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
Thanks James, once again you're the man. I've added the new quotes to the Denier Disinformation forum. Call dibs on any there. Priority to the ones which don't have rebuttals yet. |