Posted on 03/15/2007 11:42:56 AM PDT by nypokerface
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 15 (UPI) -- A Danish scientist said the idea of a "global temperature" and global warming is more political than scientific.
University of Copenhagen Professor Bjarne Andresen has analyzed the topic in collaboration with Canadian Professors Christopher Essex from the University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph.
It is generally assumed the Earth's atmosphere and oceans have grown warmer during the recent 50 years because of an upward trend in the so-called global temperature, which is the result of complex calculations and averaging of air temperature measurements taken around the world.
"It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth," said Andresen, an expert on thermodynamics. "A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate".
He says the currently used method of determining the global temperature -- and any conclusion drawn from it -- is more political than scientific.
The argument is presented in the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
The video has the global warming kool-aid drinkers in a complete uproar -- hysterical is a better term.
ok, I've lived through the next ice age. now it may be that this latest scam will expire. i just wonder what the next leftist cause will be....
Global climate moderation?
He is obviously right.
Many thanks for finding it! The movie is great and their answers are very clear--GW is a giant swindle, fraud and far-left political myth. Trouble is, the enviro-idiots, aided amply by the MSM, are winning the argument and attacking the "deniers." Civil war is not out of the question if they begin passing laws to stop our economy in its tracks. These watermeon people are evil!
Many thanks for finding it! The movie is great and their answers are very clear--GW is a giant swindle, fraud and far-left political myth. Trouble is, the enviro-idiots, aided amply by the MSM, are winning the argument and attacking the "deniers." Civil war is not out of the question if they begin passing laws to stop our economy in its tracks. These watermelon people are evil!
bump
A star on a chart may be quite universal.
But diamonds are a wife's best friend.
Dumb. It is perfectly reasonable and meaningful to talk about a statistical measures of a temperature distribution and that is what people are talking about. There are good reasons to doubt and dispute AGW claims, but resorting to cheap rhetorical tricks is lame.
LOL - I actually heard Carol Channing's voice in my head as I read your post. That's not something I would want to happen very often!
Marilyn Monroe sang it, too. How's that for an image?
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