Singh it again

The comments have been reinstated on Simon Singh's blog. Good-oh!

(H/T Matthu in unthreaded)

Comments

[andyscrase]

"Astonishing that there is no mention of feedbacks in this article..."

I couldn't have put it better myself (not to mention the logarithmic nature of CO2 forcing)

Can't help feeling that Simon Singh is pretty new to this game.

[lapogus]

Andy - yes - I wasn't there but recall BH saying that Singh stated that he wasn't qualified to speak on the science at the recent Spectator debate. Singh (and other trendy science writers like Goldacre) inhabit a post-normal world - they see themselves as sceptics but in reality it is they who have fallen for the alarmist groupthink. For some reason the words 'gullible' and 'numpties' spring to mind.

[sHx]

Simon Singh, Ben Goldacre and, in the US, Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy) will forever rue the years they spent on the CAGW bandwagon, subcontracting their critical faculties to climate scientists and charlatans and belittling those who doubted, while claiming to be 'skeptics' themselves.

Much to his credit and much to the chagrin of the likes of Singh, the good old James Randi, the patron saint of skeptics, refused to sign up to climate cargo cult.

In my amateur opinion, more attention to disease control, better hygienic conditions for food production and clean water supplies, as well as controlling the filth that we breathe from fossil fuel use, are problems that should distract us from fretting about baking in Global Warming.
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/805-agw-revisited.html

Yes, sir. If only people half your age could be half the skeptic that you were at their age.

[Andrew B]

One blog I couldn't be bothered reading. I have had some direct contact with Singh. He has made up his mind on this issue and with my interaction with him at least, dances around the problem-space with such poorly constructed logic; one wonder's how he can seriously consider himself a skeptic. I guess his brand of scepticism is limited to making sport of soft targets acceptable to his peer-group, like astrologers and chiropractors. Far more interesting and challenging things in the world worth one's attention. Like this blog.

[James P]

"For some reason the words 'gullible' and 'numpties' spring to mind"

And Muppet (but not Beaker - he's too nice).

[David Chorley]

I took the opportunity of drawing 350 parts per million on an A4 piece of paper. a square 4.6mm in side just big enough to write CO2 in it... approximates to the same for an American 8.5x11 inch sheet. smaller than one of the punched holes.... puts it in perspective dunnit.