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New blockbuster paper finds man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warming
The Hockey Schtick ^ | August 30, 2012 | Unknown

Posted on 09/01/2012 8:23:02 PM PDT by Rocky

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To: piytar
Anyone with a basic understanding of absorption spectra and quantum mechanics knows AGW is complete bull

The absorption of IR photons by CO2 molecules is well understood at the macro level. It's the same as with partly cloudy skies at night. As clouds go over reporting stations you can actually see the temperature stop dropping then continue when the clouds move off. Same as a greenhouse which stops convection but also absorbs and reemits heat. It's easy to test by tying a space blanket way up in a tree (so that there is no convection stopping effect) and sleeping under that versus sleeping under the stars.

At the quantum mechanical level it is considerably more complex. Photons may not be absorbed and reemitted the way we think they are.

21 posted on 09/02/2012 8:29:21 AM PDT by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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To: Rocky

OK, thanks for the correction. I would think the ice core data would be more significant and more definitive than any short term observations though.


22 posted on 09/02/2012 8:37:24 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Rocky
An important new paper published today in Global and Planetary Change finds that changes in CO2 follow rather than lead global air surface temperature and that "CO2 released from use of fossil fuels have little influence on the observed changes in the amount of atmospheric CO2"

This has been known all along.


23 posted on 09/02/2012 12:23:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Rocky

Bump for later.


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25 posted on 09/02/2012 3:58:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
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To: Rocky
Ole Humluma, b, Kjell Stordahlc, Jan-Erik Solheimd The blog gives a link to the article, but to view the article at the link, you have to pay $39.95.

That's steep for online content...

26 posted on 09/02/2012 6:07:33 PM PDT by GOPJ ("If you want to know who controls you, find out who you are not allowed to insult."TravisMcGee)
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To: sauropod

tues


27 posted on 09/02/2012 6:09:09 PM PDT by sauropod (Only two of God's creatures can employ the term "we": newspaper editors and men with tapeworms-Hayes)
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To: Rocky

These scientists must be new at this “study” stuff. They obviously didn’t realize that if they find out there really is no problem, they won’t be eligible for more federal study money for this doomsday “problem.”


28 posted on 09/02/2012 6:24:58 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think the article has new information. It isn’t talking about temperature vs. CO2 eons ago. It’s talking about recent information. I think it is another nail in the coffin of CAGW.


29 posted on 09/02/2012 7:49:02 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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Not that you’d know it from listening to the Republican candidate for president of the United States;
“Mitt Romney:

I am not a scientist myself, but my best assessment of the data is that the world is getting warmer, that human activity contributes to that warming, and that policymakers should therefore consider the risk of negative consequences.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=obama-romney-science-debate


30 posted on 09/05/2012 11:25:19 AM PDT by trumpetvine
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