You Tube Sites
Wilfred Candler
29th June, 2008
There is an almost endless array of global warming sites on You Tube. By all means go look at a selection of them. (Google “You Tube”, then search for what you want, such as “Al Gore Climate Change”). Numerically, the sites that even doubt the occurrence of global warming typically exceed those that accept its existence and address what can be done about it. Don’t let this bother you. Look at them, and see if you thin they make any sense. As for reading I provide mini-reviews for sites that I have liked. By all means send me reviews of additional sites that you think should be included in the list of You-Tube links. Contact Us
Humor:
Al Gore reflects on his “withdrawal symptoms” from being Vice president, also ten technological “wedges” that could eliminate emissions. Note that he has no mention of policies to implement these wedges.
A wonderful spoof of carbon credits. Cheat Neutral
Policy:
Al Gore at TED (Technology, Entertainment Design, a high-tech conference center in Monterey, California). Here he does talk policy. He finally comes out for:
- Putting a price on carbon,
- A revenue neutral, carbon tax,
- No more coal fired generating stations without carbon dioxide capture and permanent sequestration, (i.e. No more coal fired generating stations).
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Wedges
Cheat Neutral
An Inconvenient Truth
Grey Literature
Skeptic Presentation
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“Welcome aboard Al!” Still missing are:
- Any mention of the tax rate, (I advocate $250 a ton of carbon initially),
- How the tax will be made revenue neutral, (I favor by an equal per capita rebate to all registered voters),
- What should be taxed, (I favor fossil fuel at the mine, well-head or port of entry).
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Still this is a vast improvement over his policy-free “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Hired Skeptics:
This excellent talk by Naomi Oreskes puts the lie to the skeptics view that “scientists are divided on the existence of global warming”. She demonstrates that there are refereed/peer reviewed articles that question global warming. There is a huge “grey literature” of un-refereed articles put out by think tanks, or fossil funded researchers, but this grey literature, not having been refereed, should carry no weight when compared to the scientific literature proper.
Similarly, there appear to be more skeptical You Tube snippets, than presentations endorsing global warming. Note, however, that this is You Tube, it is up to you to decide what you want to say or show on You Tube: If you get a thrill out of saying “Black is White”, You Tube will allow you to do so. You Tube is definitely a “viewer beware” medium. No one in their right mind is going to say “It must be true, I saw it on You Tube”.
Skeptic:
This is the best skeptic presentation that I have found.
Bob Carter is a convincing and dynamic speaker. If I understood him correctly, as a marine geologist, he does not find any time series of less than 1,000 year’s very convincing, not very useful in the present circumstances!
The Sydney Morning Herald (March 15, 2007) has said “One author of the critique was the retired James Cook University professor Bob Carter. Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community. He is on the research committee at the Institute of Public Affairs, a think tank that has received funding from oil and tobacco companies, and whose directors sit on the boards of companies in the fossil fuel sector.” |