Forbes Follies - Joe Bast Deliberately Excludes And Misrepresents Important Climate Science

Forbes magazine OP/ED 3/31/2014

The IPCC's Latest Report Deliberately Excludes And Misrepresents Important Climate Science

By Joseph Bast

Reviewed by citizenschallenge

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First, we should be clear - Joe Bast is a political operative.  Everything he does, he does from a position of defending his policy agenda which is all about protecting the big business status quo.  This is not slander nor misleading and I'm not even opining on whether it is right or wrong.  It is what it is.  

Nowhere in Joe Bast's writings will you find any curiosity or interest in understanding the various dynamics at work in our atmosphere and oceans.  He won't discuss basic geophysical fundamentals, nor review the science that is "settled."  Things that we need to understand before any of the rest of this 'global warming conversation' can make any sense.

Read on as I do a detailed review of Mr. Bast's recent Forbes' Op-Ed attack on the IPCC's WG2 report, including many links to authoritative sources of further information  
(http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/)  
Joe Bast's words are in courier font and unaltered.

Here's an interesting quote worth keeping in mind when reading Joe's take on scientific reality:

"Joe Bast reflecting on the kind of person needed to run the Heartland Institute: 

“My motto is, you need to find a used car salesman who’s a libertarian—

an aggressive, articulate guy who wants to build an organization.” "

Source: http://heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/RadicalsforCapitalism479-480.pdf

Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: 
A Free-Wheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement 
(New York: Perseus Books Group, 2007).

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The Forbes conversation continues - 13 points examined

As the world warms the "manmade global warming" debate gets ever more surreal.  

Seems that no matter how much evidence accumulates, the Republican power-politic devotees come up with ever more disconnected claims and rationalizations.  

Couple days ago I was confronted with the following 13 points, (15 including the intro and closing), by someone named "scottar" over at the Forbes' comments pages.  After his jabbing introduction he begins his list with "You-all have failed to account for:"

It turned out, his items are very well accounted for and the list of 13 was little more than a list highlighting scottar's profound misunderstanding of climatology.  

Rather than swapping claims and opinions I thought I would simply share a variety of educational videos that directly speak to his various claims.  And then I invited some calm fact-based defense of his various claims and commentary on the lessons offered in the videos I shared.

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From the Forbes comments section to "Global Warming Alarmist Caught Doctoring 97% Consensus Claim"

Has Forbes become the rich guy's Mad Magazine?... with James Taylor playing Alfred E. Neuman?

James Taylor has written another one of his bizarre climate opinion pieces for Forbes Magazine.  Watts up with that anyways... I always heard Forbes was a decent magazine?

Still month after month I hear about, then read, this guy's off-the-wall, paranoia and conspiracy soaked stories.  

James' dislike for serious scientists is palpable.  

Worse he has no integrity, shamelessly spewing contrived nonsense that'd make any disinterested high school drop-out proud.

Taylor's obvious lack of understanding for our "global heat distribution engine" is appalling - In this blog I will try to confront his lies with videos that provide many basic primers to various aspects that Forbes' Taylor chooses to misrepresent.  Of course there's more to learn, but the resources are many - all that's require is the will and interest

I am reposting James Taylors' complete article in courier font my response will be in blue.

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OP/ED | 4/24/2013  |  James Taylor  |  Forbes Magazine

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