Prince Charles - a realty check
Anthony Watts
has this to say:
Chicken al la still not a king
The royal prince in waiting of Britain labels climate skeptics as �headless chickens�.
From The Telegraph:Prince Charles has criticised climate change deniers, describing them as the �headless chicken brigade� during an awards ceremony recognising a leading young green entrepreneur.
Charles, who has campaigned for years to reduce global warming, also spoke out against �the barrage of sheer intimidation� from powerful anti-climate change groups during the event held at Buckingham Palace last night.
The mark of a true leader is bringing people with diverse views and backgrounds together, clearly with this recent pronouncement, Prince Charles clearly has failed as a leader.
I�ll point out a few things the prince who may be king should know, but doesn�t, or chooses not to.
1. Rational climate skeptics don�t doubt that some portion of the proposed greenhouse effect is real, it�s just that nobody (and that includes many scientists) seems to be able to agree upon how much. The few who actually deny the Greenhouse effect exists, such as the �Slayers� aka �Principia Scientific� only represent the views of a fringe.
2. Item 1 then leads to arguments about climate sensitivity, values are literally �all over the map�:
Anthony then posts a graph showing the estimates from seventeen of the official AGW sources (IPCC, Lindzen, etc...) and follows with a brutal shopping list that dismantles the political hype machine. This one is especially delicious:
5. While rational climate skeptics point out reality based factual inconsistencies with warming projections, the global warming movement has been hijacked by emotional activists, such as Bill McKibben and Al Gore, who use emotional pleas and invective to motivate people. You won�t see them ever show the graphs above because they don�t deal in facts, only emotional appeals.
Show us the facts and then we might start to listen again. Don't try to snow us with emotion. Climate is not emotional. Striving for political gain is.
Posted by DaveH at February 1, 2014 11:58 AM