Posted on 04/12/2015 8:19:09 AM PDT by Signalman
Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry Maurie Trewhella, of Victoria University (Australia), has just made a stunning claim about global warming, in a letter to the editor.
According to Trewhella;
Ian Dunlop’s warning (Comment, 7/4) is especially sobering. The slowing of atmospheric temperature rise over the past 15 years or so, used by climate change sceptics to debunk the work of the IPCC, is, on the contrary, evidence that the solar energy delivered to the Earth is being absorbed by the oceans. The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets are acting as giant dampers to contain temperature rise in the oceans. When both of these ice sheets melt away in the next decade or so, the rise in both ocean and atmospheric temperatures will accelerate rapidly and demonstrate that the passing of the tipping points that Dunlop expresses concern about has, indeed, occurred. …
I’m not certain which article by Ian Dunlop Professor Trewhella was responding to, but this article, full of alarmist claims about tipping points and the “dangers” of economic growth, seems fairly typical of Dunlop’s writing.
Professor Trewhella is a person of substance within Australian academia. The press release Ephedrine’s green dream details advanced work being performed by Associate Professor Trewhella and colleagues on yeast, to economically produce important medicines (interestingly their innovation, in this case, involved large quantities of CO2).
To obtain a Chemistry qualification in Australia, you have to study Thermodynamics at an advanced level. Part of being a qualified Chemist in Australia, is knowing how much heat it takes to melt a block of ice.
Does Professor Trewhella really believe that the Antarctic and Arctic ice sheets will “melt away in the next decade”? I hope not. But whatever led to this letter being published, it seems careless to say the least, for the reputation of a man of science, to be associated with such a ridiculous claim.
That was the last decade when they were predicted to melt. Sorry, Dude. You missed it.
and water at the Equator will turn to steam and everyone/thing will burst into flames , D’oh
And when this doesn’t happen, the media won’t mock him as he deserves and the others that do real science won’t throw him out. He will go on as if he never said it. This guy is a fool.
Al Gore must have missed it by a decade.
With all that hot air that is coming out of their mouths, you betcha it’ll happen!
Or not.
I thought the Aussies were wise to this.
Nah. We have offsets. I just leased a Kia Soul EV that is pure electric. Next step is a solar panel array on the roof, so I'll be doing my part to turn the heat from sunlight into motion, instead of letting it just warm up the atmosphere.
See? If we turn enough sunlight into electro-motive power, then we'll have to go back to the dire predictions of a new ice age. Wake me up if and when it gets here...
The slowing of atmospheric temperature rise over the past 15 years or so, used by climate change sceptics to debunk the work of the IPCC, is, on the contrary, evidence that the solar energy delivered to the Earth is being absorbed by the oceans.IOW, the lying beeotch is, like the rest of the global warming hoax frauds, retreating to the long-discredited LIE that the oceans warm at depth and store the energy.
Dude, that was 10 years ago.
okay...if you say so....I have more important things to do....like counting the blades of grass in my lawn..
No evidence is evidence, then ?
They are a lunatic as the Iranian Mullahs who predict the Mahdi will climb out of a well.
10 years again? algore already said this and has 289 days left!
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2006/01/27/algore_we_have_ten_years_left_before_earth_cooks
I love the sophistry used by the global warming cultists to show that the lack of any global temperature increase in the last decade and a half and above normal ice at the South pole and normal ice levels in the Arctic are somehow proof of global warming. If this clown were a true scientist he would be rejecting the CO2 driven climate change model as not fitting the observed data
Last decade? I’ve been hearing this since 1994, if not longer. If it was a real danger, they would be talking about civil engineering projects such as flooding sparsely populated below sea level areas such as Death Valley or the Qatarra Depression or the Caspian Sea area to contain the excess ice melt rather than trading carbon credits and other nonsense to line their pockets and/or bolster their political power.
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