The Recent Climate Change Arguments

So, we've got another barn-burner of a discussion going: started off about politics, but quickly moved to Viscount Christopher Monckton's recent articles in the London Telegraph. It's gotten a bit heated at points -- that's typical for these arguments -- but it's also forced me to really take a look at what some of the climate science blogs are saying. So far, I've come across a number of efforts to refute Monckton's arguments:

• RealClimate's post on the first article -- the discussion thread on this one is fascinating, that much of it's definitely over my head.
• The beginnings of an extended critique of both Monckton's science and logic at Open Mind. Almost as soon as its started, though, the author decided that s/he was going to stop in order to concentrate on participating in...
• A wiki aimed at gathering viewpoints to create a singular critique of Monckton.

As our discussion is getting heated, perhaps unnecessarily so, we should all probably take a look at Monckton's articles, and these criticisms of them. If you'd like, I'll create separate post for the political issues raised -- we ought to keep them separated from the science as much as possible... Following the arguments here and elsewhere has been fascinating, though...

Categories: globalwarming, climatechange, christophermonckton, realclimate, openmind, blogs, debate