Climate Science Once Again Twisted Beyond Recognition By Conservative Media
Climate Science Once Again Twisted Beyond Recognition By Conservative Media
August 01, 2011 8:53 pm ET by Jocelyn Fong
In response to Spencer’s paper NCAR scientists Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo ran their own comparison of the models and the observations and concluded that the results depend largely on which models are chosen. In other words, if you select the models in a different way from the 6 used by Spencer, the “huge discrepancies” disappear. Trenberth and Fasullo concluded that “there are some good models and some not so good,” but “the net result is that the models agree within reasonable bounds with the observations.” They also stated that Spencer’s paper “has very basic shortcomings because no statistical significance of results, error bars or uncertainties are given either in the figures or discussed in the text.”
“Has a central tenant [sic] of global warming just collapsed?” That’s the first sentence of a July 29 Fox News article about a recent study which shows nothing of the sort, demonstrating just how broken climate change coverage is at news outlets like Fox, where scientific illiteracy meets political slant.
“Artist’s Rendering” of Conservative Media on Climate Change
Last week, Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), one of the few climate scientists who think we don’t need to worry much about global warming, published a paper purportedly challenging mainstream climate models that is both limited in scope and, by many accounts, flawed. After a Forbes column by James Taylor of the libertarian Heartland Institute misinterpreted the study and declared that it blows a “gaping hole in global warming alarmism,” an avalanche of conservative media outlets, including Fox, followed suit…
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