Posted on 04/21/2006 11:08:08 AM PDT by JZelle
Global warming may not be as dramatic as some scientists have predicted. Using temperature readings from the past 100 years, 1,000 computer simulations and the evidence left in ancient tree rings, Duke University scientists announced yesterday that "the magnitude of future global warming will likely fall well short of current highest predictions."
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Park it with Y2K.
You are looking at a public display of suicide by research director Gabriele Hegerl of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Her career is FINISHED!! She'll never get another grant.
Duke, huh? Very interesting timing, the libs will say.
Also, did you notice one group even wanted to blame the forests for global warming.
I guess it's time to watch the comedy classic "The Day After Tomorrow" again.
If you take off the spin and look at the numbers, the Duke study confirms what is pretty much the consensus estimate for climate forcing: about 3 degree Centigrade (5.4 degree Fahrenheit) temperature rise for a doubling of CO2 concentration, whcih is predicted for about 2100. The one thing they do is exclude estimates on the very high tail of the range.
...paging Dingle-Norwood.
How did you leave out Ronnie?
The problem with the consensus is that it must continually be readjusted as the blatant errors of computer models are corrected by reality. The global warming lobby is foolishness.
If consensus means whatever scientific opinion the driveby media feels like reporting, then consensus is the last thing we need to listen to. Unless we seek deception and stupidity.
How odd that scientists, who have spent their lives doing something, got it right. Far more likely peanut-brained ideologues who probably never finished high school know better.
Why exactly do you think you have an opinion on this anyone should care about?
I still contend it DOES change the alarmism. It puts a ceiling on the way-high predictions, and curtails the alarmism.
I agree.
I still contend it DOES change the alarmism. It puts a ceiling on the way-high predictions, and curtails the alarmism.
I agree.
Oh NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
They're going to transition back to "pollution will bring on the ice age"!
Where's my woolys???????
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