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Wednesday
Oct162013

Valentine's day

Over the weekend I received a copy of Phil Valentine's An Inconsistent Truth. There was no covering letter, but I assume it came from the publicity people for the film.

At a loose end, I took a look and although "Documentary presented by American conservative talk radio host" is a genre that I would tend to be a little suspicious of, in fact it was a very amusing way to pass an hour or so. Valentine has none of the bombast that I was expecting, coming across as a wryly amusing, very straight kind of guy, ready to have a laugh with anyone about anything. I really warmed to him.

The film itself is pretty much as you'd expect it, covering Climategate, the holes in the global warming hypothesis, and interviewing lots of sceptic scientists. In some ways it can be seen as an extended mickey-take of Al Gore, with much of the time spent focused on his high-carbon lifestyle.

The film has none of the showmanship of the Great Global Warming Swindle, but its more understated tone probably means it will hit home with a different audience. The only gripe is that they get Hide the Decline all wrong - lots of talk about hiding declining temperatures, a la Sarah Palin. That apart, it's a very pleasant way to spend an hour or so.

Buy it here.

 *corrected 11.20am.

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Reader Comments (102)

why don't climate scientologists use apporpriate language for the concepts they imagine?

Oct 20, 2013 at 1:24 AM | diogenes

The same terms tend to be used in different ways in different areas of science. The term feedback has a distinct meaning in Martin A's electronic engineering which would be very different from a biologist's or climatologist's concept. This is part of the problem.

Martin A's view of the world is conditioned by his intimate knowledge of electron flow in computer chips and his vocabulary is specialised to suit. Is his use of "feedback" to describe recursive current changes in a circuit, with all the subsidiary assumptions involved, entirely suitable to describe the effect of increasing temperature on the release of carbon dioxide from thawing tundra?

Oct 20, 2013 at 11:43 PM | Unregistered Commenterentropic man

Harold W

You're doing a lot better than some here!

Oct 20, 2013 at 11:45 PM | Unregistered Commenterentropic man

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