Peter Sinclair is a videographer specializing in issues of Climate Change and renewable energy solutions.
Mr. Sinclair produces the video series “This is Not Cool”, for Yale Climate Connections. He has produced more than a hundred videos in the series “Climate Denial Crock of the Week”, a sharply satirical and scientifically rigorous response to the many bits of climate science misinformation, and disinformation, often seen on the internet – which Mr. Sinclair calls the “Climate Crocks – something Rush Limbaugh can say in 10 seconds that takes an honest scientist an hour to unpack”.
Since 2013, Mr. Sinclair has been Media Director of The Dark Snow Project, an ongoing science communication effort that focuses on clarifying and communicating the emerging story of melting ice in Greenland and its impact on global weather and sea level rise. Mr. Sinclair has traveled three times to the Greenland ice sheet with scientific teams to document ongoing research in this area, and interviewed hundreds of today’s best known glaciologists, oceanographers, geologists, and atmospheric scientists.
A frequent speaker, Mr. Sinclair has brought his rich multi-media presention to schools, colleges, universities and community groups throughout Michigan and around the world – including the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the University of Reykjavik, and invited presentations for scientists at American Geophysical Union gatherings in San Francisco and Colorado. He has been called “The sharpest climate denial debunker on YouTube” and “The most important videographer on the planet.” A life long Michigan resident, Mr. Sinclair resides in Midland with his wife Sandra Collinson, an educator. He has two children.
I really think your climate crocks are great. Aside from being persuasive, they are masterpieces in communication (and entertaining to watch too).
But…..
Let me make one request….Will you please please please make a single post on this blog (or actually a wordpress Page) giving a link to all the climate crock videos and more importantly mentioning the title and two or three phrases that identify the subject of that week’s video.
Don’t embed the youtube video. Just do it like this:
“It’s cold. So there’s no Climate Change” Temperature vs. Climate * What Causes Variability? * Effect of El Nino. (6 minutes 20 seconds. January 29, 2009)
And most importantly, put these links and descriptions all on the same page for easy reference. You see, I have seen all your vids several times and am constantly linking to them on facebook and email. And it gets tiresome having to use the clumsy Youtube interface to look up which video covers the topic I am looking for. Your user’s Youtube page make it difficult to find anything. I HATE having to scroll through these narrow Youtube lists that show only 3 words in the title. Also, the titles themselves sometimes don’t ring a bell.
If you put links to all your vids on the same age, that would make it much easier to find and cite your vids.
Robert Nagle
idiotprogrammer at fastmailbox.net
http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/
G’day Peter,
I found your blog whilst searching for links to Climate Crocks. I just wanted to say what a great job you’re doing and that I like your avatar greenman3610.
I love to design and carve Green Men. I have also written and performed a play about the Green Man. I would love to film the play or turn it into an animated short….one day. You can see my work and/or read the play at my website at;
http://www.carvedgreenman.com
Cheers Graham
Greetings Peter. My name is Chris Lindsay. I am a member of the Michigan Skeptics Association, which is a group here in Michigan that promotes science and critical thinking. I was wondering if you would be interested in an e-mail interview for our blog?
As you can see, I’ve done this before with Dan Moutal of Irregular Climate (http://www.miskeptics.org/category/skeptic-chat-with/). If you’re interesting, please send me an e-mail to cwlindsay@miskeptics.org at your first convenience. Thanks!
Peter,
Why is climateaudit.org not on your blogroll? In my opinion, they’re the most informative site on climate change, yet you don’t mention them! Why is that?
Because the blogger is, in my opinion, dishonest.
Peter, please use your platform to debunk this morning’s story on Morning Edition that sounds like it was written by Roger Ailes: http://bit.ly/17mTcAz
I’m still apoplectic about this piece on NPR. It’s fucking brilliant (from a climate denial perspective). It cherry picks the 1998 data point. So, technically, they aren’t lying. And then it talks to multiple scientists who disagree about what’s going on, to perpetuate the myth that climate scientists can’t agree on anything.
If it was on Fox News, it would be par for the course. But NPR?!?
I’m listening to this one, is this it?
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/29/216415005/a-cooler-pacific-may-be-behind-recent-pause-in-global-warming
doesn’t seem so bad to me.