Bishop Hill Bob misrepresents the science again
Nov 27, 2014 Climate: WG2 Climate: Ward Bob Ward's interview with Conor Gearty is fun, with the film-noir style making Bob look even stranger than normal. His views are amusing too, having only the loosest connections with the science. Take this bit on the 2-degree target.
This is straight from the science...we've seen from the evidence that if we go above global warming of more than 2 degrees we will be facing very severe risks that the world has not seen for millions of years...
As an actual climatologist explained at BH once:
Most climate scientists* do not subscribe to the 2 degrees "Dangerous Climate Change" meme.
And then there's this on the impact of climate change here in the UK:
We can already start to see the impacts of climate change in the UK...more flooding, more droughts, more heatwaves. They are things that are going to get worse. We are already starting to increase.
The trends in drought in the UK is downwards. Any increase in flooding is due to increased exposure rather than flood. I'm not aware of any studies on UK heatwaves.
Bit of an embarrassment really.
Reader Comments (157)
Techno-Optimists vs Malthusian Doomsayers has never seemed to me to be even a sporting contest. The sitting bird is in hand.
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Michael hart
"Well, we've passed 400ppm CO2 and it seems harmless. "
I imagine that the man who jumped off the Empire State Building said something similar as he passed the 40th floor. :-)
I'm afraid your imagination is too powerful, EM. It leads you to see with great clarity things that are not necessarily there.
E. Smiff,
The more one reflects on what he says openly, the more one can see in the climate concerned movement an amazing example of 'false but true' in action.
How evil, condescending and wicked, all wrapped up in sincerity and caring.
we know from venus that co2 adds chickenshit to "warming"
all temp differences explained by ditance from the sun
Entropic Man
Still waiting for some genuine evidence that a 2ºC increase in GAT will have "catastrophic" consequences.
Glebekinvara,
Heck, I am waiting for some evidence that GAT is more meaningful than "how high is up" or "how far is far".