Scroll down to read this post.

 

Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. I keep the website clean from pop-ups and annoying demands. Instead, I depend entirely on my readers to support me. Though this means I am sacrificing some income, it also means that I remain entirely independent from outside pressure. By depending solely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, no one can threaten me with censorship. You don't like what I write, you can simply go elsewhere.

 

You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are five ways of doing so:

 

1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.

 

2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
 

3. A Paypal Donation:

4. A Paypal subscription:


5. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
 
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652

 

You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above. And if you buy the books through the ebookit links, I get a larger cut and I get it sooner.


Thursday’s Batchelor podcast

Below the fold is Thursday’s Batchelor podcast. This time the focus was mostly on science, including a discussion of the data tampering of climate data that I think is going on in NOAA and NASA.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

7 comments

  • Steve

    Great appearance as usual. I am glad you mentioned that “Planet 9” if it exists at all should really be called Planet 10.

    And it is also good that you got in a segment of the data fraud at NASA and NOAA. To me that news is on a par with the revelations at the IRS.

    Both should have been major headlines of corruption in institutions that are supposed to be above politics and ideology. The fact that we can not now trust federal agencies at this broad of a level should be a watershed moment for our society.

    The fact that it is not, and that no one is going to jail from either scandal tells you volumes of where we are today.

    That the mainstream media treated both as minor stories is either a cause or a symptom of what ails us. I’m not sure which is worse…

  • Willi Kusche

    Great! Another 20 minute segment! Is this going to be SOP in the future?

  • Richard

    Bob,

    Which critics of AGW do you think have the strongest arguments. I’m arguing with people on the net and am interested in which critics you think are bulletproof.

  • To name a few, in no particular order:

    JoNova: http://joannenova.com.au/
    Steven Goddard: http://realclimatescience.com/
    Anthony Watts: http://wattsupwiththat.com/
    Roy Spencer (who is an actual climate scientist): http://www.drroyspencer.com/
    Global Warming Policy Foundation: http://www.thegwpf.org/
    Judith Curry (another climate scientist): http://judithcurry.com/

    That’s a good start. Note that Judith Curry is actually not hostile to the theory of human-caused global warming. She however is a good scientist, and recognizes the very vast uncertainties. She has discovered in recent years that just admitting the existence of these uncertainties can be dangerous for your career, which is why she has become much more sympathetic to the skeptical position.

  • Steve

    That’s a great list, I especially like Anthony Watts site WattsUpWithThat. Very good articles and a very active comment section (sometimes I learn more there than the article above them…. LOL)

    I would also add Dr Richard Lindzen Climate Scientist from MIT. Very well-respected and was one of the first to speak out about so-called human caused climate change.

    He does not have his own website, but a quick google will turn up plenty of his articles or quotes.

    Here’s one in the ClimateDepot site:
    http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/01/20/mit-climate-scientist-dr-richard-lindzen-on-hottest-year-claim-why-lend-credibility-to-this-dishonesty/

    And a quote:

    “Frankly, I feel it is proof of dishonesty to argue about things like small fluctuations in temperature or the sign of a trend. Why lend credibility to this dishonesty?” Lindzen, an emeritus Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, told Climate Depot shortly after the announcements.
    “All that matters is that for almost 40 years, model projections have almost all exceeded observations. Even if all the observed warming were due to greenhouse emissions, it would still point to low sensitivity,” Lindzen continued.
    “But, given the ‘pause.’ we know that natural internal variability has to be of the same order as any other process,” Lindzen wrote.
    Lindzen has previously mocked ‘warmest’ or ‘hottest’ year proclamations.
    “When someone says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? It’s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period,” Lindzen said in November 2015.

  • Edward

    Another critic to consider is Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. He looks at it from the viewpoint of a policy maker.
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/13/the-abject-failure-of-official-global-warming-predictions/

    “To the continuing embarrassment of the profiteers of doom, the least-squares linear-regression trends on Dr Roy Spencer’s UAH satellite dataset shows no global warming at all for 18 years 6 months, despite a continuing (and gently accelerating) increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration”

    “The West is purposelessly destroying its industries, its workers’ jobs, its prosperity, its countryside, and above all its scientific credibility, by continuing to allow an unholy mesalliance of politicians, profiteers, academics, environmental extremists, journalists and hard-left activists to proclaim, in defiance of the data now plainly shown for all to see for the first time, that the real rate of global warming is ‘worse than we thought’. It isn’t.”

Readers: the rules for commenting!

 

No registration is required. I welcome all opinions, even those that strongly criticize my commentary.

 

However, name-calling and obscenities will not be tolerated. First time offenders who are new to the site will be warned. Second time offenders or first time offenders who have been here awhile will be suspended for a week. After that, I will ban you. Period.

 

Note also that first time commenters as well as any comment with more than one link will be placed in moderation for my approval. Be patient, I will get to it.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *