Comments on: PBS Relies on Non-Scientist to Rebut Scientists on Climate Science http://blog.nwf.org/2012/09/pbs-relies-on-non-scientist-to-rebut-scientists-on-climate-science/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Sun, 19 May 2013 16:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Russell Cook http://blog.nwf.org/2012/09/pbs-relies-on-non-scientist-to-rebut-scientists-on-climate-science/comment-page-1/#comment-16992 Russell Cook Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:32:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/?p=67005#comment-16992 Those two questions would have wiped out. Watts does not dispute either, that I know of. Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas, which I’d think would implode the EPA’s efforts to regulate them. The fundamental question here is whether human activity is the driver of global warming.

By the way, what is up with the insistence that Richard Muller was ever a denier? If this narrative is to stay afloat, somebody needs to yank that 2008 Grist interview he gave where he said in the clearest terms that he resigned from the Sierra Club over their dislike of nuclear power which would leave us with an enslavement to fossil fuels that he called “a pollutant to the atmosphere that is very likely to lead to global warming.” No need to trust me on this, read it yourself: http://grist.org/article/lets-get-physical/

Do the math, Muller’s timeline in that NYT piece does not line up at all with what he said at Grist.

]]> By: Sidney Winter http://blog.nwf.org/2012/09/pbs-relies-on-non-scientist-to-rebut-scientists-on-climate-science/comment-page-1/#comment-16987 Sidney Winter Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:32:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/?p=67005#comment-16987 I saw that PBS program and was shocked. However, rather than presenting wildfire stories, etc., I would say that interviewers should never omit two basic questions for deniers: Do you believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas? Do you believe that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are rising? (And then be ready with some reference to the overwhelming evidence on those points.) Not posing those Qs to Watts was a big mistake, but there were others, like letting the old hotspot story go by without challenge.

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