30 Seconds of Fame
Q&A have collared me for the “bloggerheads” section of tomorrow’s show. Homepaddock was on last Sunday and details her trials and tribulations in getting her 30 second video made and uploaded to TVNZ. Sorry, Ele, but it took me less than half an hour to work out what I was going to say (goodness, isn’t 30 seconds short), rehearse it, record it and upload it to TVNZ.
Ah. The joys of a Mac.
The topic is public skepticism about global warming and the opposing blogger to me is Gareth Renowden of Hot Topic fame (or is that notoriety, Gareth? 
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I told Tim Watkin he was a chicken for using mild little MacDoctor instead of someone a bit more fiery like Poneke, Peter Cresswell or Ian Wishart.
Anyway, one can’t compress any sort of debate into a 30 second sound bite , so I guess the winner of the “debate” will be chosen in the usual manner for TV. May the most handsome win.
Sorry, Gareth, but that would be me… 
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Sep 11 10 11:15 pm
“Ah. The joys of a Mac.”
Ah the pain of being computer incapable
Homepaddock´s last [type] ..Word of the day
Sep 12 10 9:53 am
“I told Tim Watkin he was a chicken for using mild little MacDoctor”
Bill Bixby used to play a role like that, and look what happened to him when he got his dander up!
JC
Sep 12 10 10:48 am
You may have won the good looks competition, but that’s in part because Gareth, being a poor journalist/farmer rather than a rich doctor, had such a crappy camera – his nose looked huge!
Sep 12 10 11:04 am
My nose IS huge… but the little camera on the iMac is definitely not good. (And I couldn’t use my MacBook Pro because one of the fans developed a loud whine that made it seem as if I was talking in a sawmill).
Anyway, at least I have more hair than Jim.
PS: If you’d like a more substantive debate on climate science, Jim, I’d be happy to oblige (once i’ve got a good webcam).
Gareth´s last [type] ..Paint it bleak
Sep 12 10 3:13 pm
Andrew W – I should point out the we were BOTH using iMac cameras, though my iMac is probably newer than Gareth’s (about 15 months old)
Gareth – Bald is beautiful – I hope.
The secret of getting a decent picture out of a web cam is to make sure your background is dark and there is plenty of light on your face. I used 2 100W lamps one either side of the screen.
As to a debate – One between you and Ian Wishart would be great television (though most people would cut to the fight scene at the end!)
Sep 12 10 4:04 pm
I was doing well with the MBP, recording outside, until it started to rain and the fan whine ground into life…
Debating Wishart would be an exercise in futility, as I he seems impervious to reason. You, and to a certain extent Poneke, would be a different matter…
Gareth´s last [type] ..Paint it bleak
Sep 13 10 10:30 am
Wishart would wipe you out. He knows very clearly where the holes are in the “mankinds CO2 emissions are causing the warming” debate. That aside. I hear Anthony Watts might be coming.
Would you debate him?
Nah, you’d lose that too.
You see, more and more of us now understand that the nub of the issue is not ice supposedly melting, sea levels rising etc etc but its you warmists having to prove that CO2 mixing with water vapour creates POSITIVE feedback because the atmosphere is SENSITIVE to this and hence forcing occurs increasing the reaction which then creates the heat which warms the world.
As you have so often patronisingly said, “its basic Physics”.
Exactly,so for heat to be created there has to be a reaction. And its yet to be proved where the “reaction” creating the heat described above is occurring. There are NO actual observations of this occuring despite over 16,000 radiosondes launched, jets circling the globe taking temps etc.and the models in Santer et al 2008, which was the IPCC’s “proof” of this “forcing” have now been disproved by McIntrye, McKittrick and Herman et al 2010.
Its becoming increasingly clear that the climate is probably insensitive to CO2 and that clouds have a big influence in cooling.
Oh dear.
Besides we are also told by the IPCC that man only contributes 3% of the CO2 and nature 97%. So how will reducing the 3% make a difference anyway?
Sep 13 10 10:39 am
Empirically observed fingerprints of anthropogenic global warming. Come over to Hot Topic when you’ve read and understood that, and we’ll talk more, OK?
Gareth´s last [type] ..Paint it bleak
Sep 14 10 8:25 am
Oh Gareth, you are so predictable and hilarious because of it. Straight out of warmists 101 you send the sceptic to some web site to get lost in the big words.
While avoiding the points I raise.
I see over on your blog that Chris de Freitas is being slagged off. Would you like to have a public debate with him?
Mac
Not sure if you have seen Roy Spencer before. If you want empirical evidence then its hard to go past the accuracy of Nasa’s UAH satellite series, measuring temperatures in the troposphere. Unfortunately its only been up since 1979
El Nino is over again and La Nina is kicking in. Temps are dropping.
Spencer also has some interesting views on feedbacks, whether they are positive or whether there arent any.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
Sep 14 10 9:35 am
I’m a big fan of Spencer’s site, as I think the data, taken from thick layers of the atmosphere rather than just the surface, gives a much better picture of what’s happening – there’s a better signal to noise ratio.
If you go to the graph and plug in all the years from 1998 for the troposphere (channel 4) you can clearly see a warming trend despite it being such a short time frame (and it’s clear that of the two El Nino years, 2010 is warmer than 1998). If you go to the stratospheric data (channel 13) you can see a hint of the predicted stratospheric cooling over the last 12 years.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
Sep 14 10 12:09 pm
Andrew,
Yep, its warming alright. Not a lot , most seem to agree its currently at .5 to .7 degrees per century.
Glad you look at UAH, the land based datasets put out by HadCru and Gisstemp are very dubious. Just look at what NIWA did to our own temp data!
Sep 14 10 12:24 pm
Oh, forgot, 1998 is still the hottest year- just!
From Spencer;
“As of Julian Day 243 (end of August), the race for warmest year in the 32-year satellite period of record is still too close to call with 1998 continuing its lead by only 0.06 C:
YEAR GL
1998 +0.61
2010 +0.55″
Sep 17 10 12:39 am
I guess if 8 seconds is all it takes to give ones opinion, 30 seconds could be a full scaled debate in TV land.