Barry Bickmore (blog administrator): Barry Bickmore is a geochemistry professor at Brigham Young University, an active Mormon, and an active Republican. From 2008-2010 he was a County Delegate for the Republican Party. Anything he posts here (obviously) represents his personal opinions, and does not necessarily reflect the position of his employer, Brigham Young University.
Bill Dinklage: I’m an associate professor of Earth Science at Utah Valley University, and I love it! I love teaching, and I do some research in tectonics and metamorphism of mountain belts, too. I have a BA in physics from Carleton College (MN) and a PhD in geology from UC Santa Barbara. I teach courses in physical geology, rocks and minerals, physical science, meteorology, and energy. I’ve been keeping up with the climate change issue for over a decade and give public lectures on it occasionally.
Andrew Jorgenson: Andrew Jorgenson is an environmental macrosociologist and a faculty member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah where he is also affiliated with the university’s Environmental Studies Program, the Institute for Policy and International Affairs, and the Master of Statistics Program. He has published extensively on the human dimensions of global environmental change in top peer reviewed journals in environmental sociology, ecological economics, international relations, and human ecology. Much of this research focuses on the human drivers of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in comparative international perspective. He is also a contributing member of the newly formed American Sociological Association Task Force on Climate Change. Dr. Jorgenson has deep roots in Utah, with most of his extended relatives living in rural parts of the state where they work in agriculture and mining.
Note from Barry: I’m looking for more contributors, so let me know if you’re interested.
Barry, hearing great things about your work.
Hope you have a chance to look at my videos debunking Monckton,
(and other things)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=029130BFDC78FA33
By: greenman3610 on May 4, 2010
at 3:08 pm
I have watched the videos–brilliant!!!
By: bbickmore on May 4, 2010
at 3:11 pm
Brilliant? REALLY?
This clown confuses weather with climate and you find his purely political propaganda “brilliant”?
http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610#p/u/5/YVh7z-0oo6o
There went your credibility.
Try this instead:
http://sbvor.blogspot.com/p/climate-change-science-overview.html
By: SBVOR on October 26, 2011
at 1:53 am
Hi SBVOR,
I took a look at your website, but unfortunately I don’t find that you understand the science you cite. E.g., when you say there’s no consistent correlation between CO2 and temperature over the past several hundred million years, you don’t realize that over that long time period, you have to take into account increases in solar radiation. When you do that, there IS a consistent correlation between CO2 and temperature. Look up “Faint Young Sun” and Dana Royer’s work on the subject.
By: Barry Bickmore on October 26, 2011
at 6:27 am
Greenman3610 presents purely political heat and drought propaganda:
http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610#p/u/5/YVh7z-0oo6o
Here’s some real science on the matter:
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/12/4136.full.pdf
Also “inconvenient” is the fact that your holy church of GISS assured us that AGW would be evident not in summer warming, but in winter warming:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20010423/
Just making it up as you go?
But, I expect you’ll censor all of that — too “inconvenient”.
By: SBVOR on October 26, 2011
at 2:04 am
Sorry Barry,
You’re the one whose insights are lacking. Start at the link below and you’ll find your solar energy canard quite easily debunked:
http://sbvor.blogspot.com/2009/10/climate-change-science-overview.html?showComment=1258072182431#c6322587460772335818
By: SBVOR on October 26, 2011
at 10:12 am
I left a comment on your website. Greenland temperatures are not global temperatures. Scientists are talking about global warming not Greenland warming.
You may find this graph useful: http://berkeleyearth.org/analysis/
By: Jose_X on January 17, 2012
at 9:56 am
It seems SBVOR posted my first comment, in which I made a minor mistake he was able to jump on, but has failed to post my follow up on-topic comments offering some corrections to the website (eg, to his critique of the recent BEST studies). SBVOR, you tempt me to think your webpages are an anti-AGW propaganda site with little concern for all the facts on climate change.
.. as goes that Greenland/Arctic issue, http://www.skepticalscience.com/New_temperature_record_for_the_Arctic_in_2011.html gives new data that shows the Arctic keeps getting warmer.
By: Jose_X on February 1, 2012
at 10:48 am
Barry,
I’m interested in contributing to your blog. I have a BS in physics from BYU ’75 and an MBA from Harvard ’79. I’m now retired from a career in semiconductor marketing (Intel, Mitsubishi) and living in Orem.
I have followed the AGW debate for the last few years. I am a believer in moderate warming from co2 but I have strong doubts about the overall climate sensitivity assumed in the scary projections for catastrophic climate change. In fact, the climate sensitivity is the key unknown quantity being debated by the “warmer” and “skeptic” climate scientists.
Most recently, I have turned my energies from debating CAGW to promoting energy sources that can be acceptable to “warmers” and “skeptics” alike since they are clean, low cost and 24/7. I am referring to LFTR the “green” nuclear energy.
http://energyfromthorium.com/2010/07/01/welcome-american-scientist-readers/
So if you are interested in a little AGW balance on your blog please let me know.
By: Charles Hart on November 2, 2010
at 7:29 pm
Aloha Professor Brickmore,
I learned about you on climatecrocks. Peter Sinclair is my inspiration and his blog is my mentor — much of my AGW work in the newser.com NEWSER BY USERS page originates from ideas on climatecrocks.com. However, as often as possible I go to the “source” to do the summary which is posted on newser. Here’s the link to my summary of your YouTube presentation.
http://www.newser.com/story/133367/a-mormon-geologist-looks-at-climate-science-denial.html
You asked that it be passed on and this is one way I intend to do so.
Here’s my entire “body of work” on newser — at least one if five of my summaries is on AGW and nearly half of them are on client science denial.
http://www.newser.com/user/39776786/1/kokuaguy.html?type=stories
Although i have lived in Hawaii most of my life, I feel a special kinship having been born and raised in Colorado, and having many Mormon relatives among my ex-wife’s family here in the islands. Please let me know if I may be of service “to the cause” in any way.
Kokuaguy in Honolulu
kokuaguy@gmail.com
By: kokuaguy on November 15, 2011
at 1:10 pm
I watched your presentation: Climate Change: What We Know and How We Know It
It’s really well done and I want to present it here in Luxembourg, translated.
Would you accept to pass me your presentation and make use of it citing your name?
By: Robert Leven on November 21, 2011
at 6:23 pm
I’ll send you a link to download it. By the way, Luxembourg City is one of my favorite European cities. It feels sort of old and new at the same time.
By: Barry Bickmore on November 21, 2011
at 8:38 pm
29 Nov 2011
Hi:
Jon Huntsman has famously recognized the existence of climate change and the human role in contributing to it. But, as Utah governor, but what did he do about it?
–Farrell S. Seiler, Chairman (a Republican)
New Hampshire Carbon Action Alliance
By: Farrell S. on November 29, 2011
at 11:59 am
He convened a blue-ribbon panel on climate change and its effects on the state, and then signed the Western Climate Initiative.
By: Barry Bickmore on November 29, 2011
at 12:22 pm
I would love to sit down with Moncton for a few minutes and ask him a few really basic questions about the atmosphere and chemistry to really establish what he does know. Of course I know that he wouldn’t be able to answer them and he would probably go on the attack and call me all sorts of names and threaten to have me locked up. But it would be interesting.
Keep up the excellent work Baz.
By: Paul on January 7, 2012
at 9:09 pm