Rebuke: Climate Change in 12 minutes - The Skeptic's Case
Introduction Over on The Chronicle Flask 's page, a climate change "skeptic" responded to a share of a guardian article on Trump's "crackdown of politicized science". He shared a youtube movie, which is relatively short. I'll reply to it here. It's called Climate Change in 12 Minutes - The Skeptic's Case . It is authored by a Dr. David Evans, who is not unknown. Rebuke The first claim is that they checked the climate models versus the latest data, and the climate models got all the major predictions wrong. Beyond the obvious request of a (peer-reviewed) citation, the claim opposes various papers. A few examples: doi:10.1038/nclimate3079 : "climate sensitivity estimates have now been reconciled and are consistent with the modelled range" . doi:10.1038/nclimate3066 : " Correcting for these biases and accounting for wider uncertainties in radiative forcing based on recent evidence, we infer an observation-base