Comments on: Global Warming Movie

By: The Cowboy Capitalist

The Cowboy Capitalist — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:44:29 +0000

"I believe that the BBC had nothing to do with this, but that it was a production of Channel 4, whatever that may be."

Correct. It was a Channel 4 production(a public channel, funded via advertising). They have a reputation for producing "controversial" documentaries.

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:48:15 +0000

I was watching “How It’s Made” last night and one of the segments was on distilled beverages. It was stated that just one distiller created 30 tons of CO2 per day! I wonder what will happen when the Global Warming nuts find out about that?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:11:30 +0000

Every time I read your writing about global warming, I imagine a humanoid God Of Global Warming stomping across the globe, breaking the glaciers with his giant feet, sitting down in the Pacific like it’s a bathtub and causing the ocean levels to rise as a result. It’s a very funny image.

By: eddie

eddie — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:24:37 +0000

apparently random white noise fed into their model produces a hockey stick

Technically it was random red noise, not white noise. But the implications are the same, namely: the fact that Mann's model and data produce a hockey stick says nothing about whether there really is a hockey stick.

By: Jim Morse

Jim Morse — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:48:17 +0000

One problem with using anthropogenic CO2 to explain the global mean temperature time series: how does an increase in anthropogenic CO2 explain the decrease in global mean temperature between ~1940 and ~1975? For that matter, how does an increase in anthropogenic CO2 explain the constant (or slightly decreasing) global mean temperature between ~1998 and ~2005?

By: Noumenon

Noumenon — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:12:32 +0000

Just to link together the only two parts of the blogosphere I saw talk about this movie, badscience.net writes about this guy's last environmental documentary for Channel 4. They had to broadcast a prime-time apology for misrepresenting interviews with tricky cuts. Maybe that was just a political thing where the government's "Independent Television Commission" forced them to recant, I don't know.

By: Don Lloyd

Don Lloyd — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:37:00 +0000

Warren,

"I finally watched the BBC special..."

I believe that the BBC had nothing to do with this, but that it was a production of Channel 4, whatever that may be.

Regards, Don

By: me

me — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:13:07 +0000

I enjoy your blog and visit regularly, but one think gets on my wick: the word you want is ‘anthropogenic’, not ‘anthropomorphic’, when referring to man-made events rather than man-shaped things. Ciao Bella!

By: me

me — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:12:35 +0000