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Skeptics Dare Heartland Institute to Take Up $25,000 Climate Challenge

gregladen | June 15, 2015

This is a press release from the Center for Inquiry: Skeptics Dare Heartland Institute to Take Up $25,000 Climate Challenge A leading science advocacy group is throwing down the gauntlet to the Heartland Institute, a group that claims that global warming stopped in 1998, with a stark, simple challenge: If the 30-year average global land surface temperature goes up in 2015, setting a new record, the Heartland Institute must donate $25,000 to a science education nonprofit. The challenge is presented by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), a program of the Center for Inquiry, which held…

Can Monckton Put His Money Where Is Mouth Is? NO! it turns out (UPDATE)

gregladen | August 28, 2013

Climate science denialist Christopher Monckton wrote a post at WUWT blog in which he describes the non-existent stall in global warming. At the end of the post he writes: Meanwhile, enjoy what warmth you can get. A math geek with a track-record of getting stuff right tells me we are in for 0.5 Cº of global cooling. It could happen in two years, but is very likely by 2020. His prediction is based on the behavior of the most obvious culprit in temperature change here on Earth – the Sun. My friend and Colleague, John Abraham of St. Thomas University (he blogs here) wrote the following letter:…