Quote from piezoe:
It is not the video that matters, and his work won't be judged on the video, it's the paper that counts. He has undoubtedly already submitted it, and it will take a long time to review. Probably several rounds. Stay tuned for the result. There are not enough details in the video to allow others to check his work carefully. There will be much more detail in the paper. I thought his approach to ice core analysis was correct, so far as I could tell. I am totally unfamiliar with how others have approached the problem of CO2 diffusion in ice (I hope this hasn't been ignored in the prior analyses!) I have a background in solution diffusion studies, but never worked in solid state diffusion.
Salby's work is going to make waves, one way or the other. He is not a shrinking violet. And he is most definitely qualified. He is not a quack, but that of course does not mean he can't be wrong.
Well, Salby being no fool as you suggest, surely intended his video and the talk he gives in it to be representative of his work and his paper, seeing they are all about the same subject. By the way, a paper which, as far as I am aware, is still not and appears unlikely to be published.
Salby is fundamentally proposing something that has not withstood the scrutiny of science when it has been previously suggested. Namely that the rise in atmospheric co2 is not anthropogenic but caused by temperature.
Salby does not basically refute any of the established scientific data. But rather than establish any hard scientific evidence of his own, when it suits he hand waves known science away, as he does calling "proxy" the existing extensive scientific data , observations and factual measurements around co2 in ice core samples.
Glaciologists are obliged to scientifically analyze and then explain co2 diffusion in solution if required and solid state with extensive detailed research data. Not just dismiss it all away as
proxy. Salby does. In that instance alone he's basing a proposal by ignoring not refuting or improving scientific evidence.
Giving someone the benefit of doubt that such a proposal might be worthy merely because a paper on a fundamentally already failed proposition is being promised is too generous.
Akin to waiting for the second coming while trying to brush aside the ten ton truck hurtling towards you. More like reason to be skeptical of Salby rather than supporter of his.
The detail he does give has not stood scrutiny and is knocked down all over the place.
But currently there is a good marketplace for AGW skepticism, something of which Salby being no shrinking violet will be well aware.