Tag Archives: global warming

What Global Warming Consensus?

Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory

In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the “consensus view,” defined as humans were [...]

Why Don’t I Sweat Global Warming?

The answer climate sensitivity, diminishing curves, CO2 doubling, historical empirical data and more. Warren Meyer explains the whole thing with just two charts.

Coyote Blog: Problems With Catastrophic Global Warming Shown in Two Charts

To get a sensitivity of 3.0ºC, one has to assume that global warming due solely to man’s CO2 (nothing else) would [...]

Monday Morning Reading List, Part 1

Massachusetts Universal Care Plan Faces Hurdles - New York Times.

People who must pay the full cost themselves, who are crucial to the success of the nation’s most ambitious effort to achieve near-universal coverage, may now be a majority of the state’s uninsured and not all are rushing to get coverage. Many of them [...]

Madison’s Very Own Global Warming Skeptic

I’m ecstatic to see that not everyone believes that my iPod is destroying the planet.

Local scientist calls global warming theory ‘hooey’

Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey. The UW-Madison professor emeritus, who stands against the scientific consensus on this issue, is [...]