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Posted on 05/18/2007 12:20:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
New Zealand Weatherman on Global Warming: 'It's All Going to be a Joke in 5 Years' Posted by Noel Sheppard on May 18, 2007 - 15:03.
The air continues to seep out of the global warming consensus balloon, ladies and gentlemen.
Meet Augie Auer, the former University of Wyoming professor of atmospheric science turned New Zealand meteorologist who isn’t buying what soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not so merry global warming alarmists are selling.
As reported by the New Zealand Timaru Herald (emphasis added throughout):
Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, [Auer] maintained.
"We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said.
A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it.
"It is time to attack the myth of global warming," he said.
Unlike folks such as Gore, Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, and Leonardo DiCaprio, Auer has actually studied and taught this science. As such, he walks the walks AND talks the talk:
Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect, an effect which was vital to keep the world warm, he explained.
"If we didn't have the greenhouse effect the planet would be at minus 18 deg C but because we do have the greenhouse effect it is plus 15 deg C, all the time."
The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent.
However, carbon dioxide as a result of man's activities was only 3.2 per cent of that, hence only 0.12 per cent of the greenhouse gases in total. Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs etc made similarly minuscule contributions to the effect: 0.066, 0.047 and 0.046 per cent respectively.
"That ought to be the end of the argument, there and then," he said.
"We couldn't do it (change the climate) even if we wanted to because water vapour dominates."
Auer correctly concluded: "It's become a witch-hunt; a Salem witch-hunt."
Yes it has, Doctor. Unfortunately in this instance, the hunt is more serious because there are a lot more people involved, and the consequences far more dire.
Hear, hear!
A lecture by Michael Crichton
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
January 17, 2003
My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.
That's because we fixed the problems. If we had not then some bad things would have happened. (IMHO) (Because I know the things I fixed would have caused some serious problems.)
As to your stepdad, he over-reacted, but I took prudent step like I would for a huricane.
Does your stepdad's neighbor need any help with the scotch? ;-)
No; some of the Basmati rice showed up in our pantry, tho...
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Well said. The technical organization that I worked for had about 300 people, just as many computers, and many thousands of programs.
The list of Y2K issues contained about 2000 items. Some were very small, just consisting of a need to inventory what programs were being used and where. Other systems relied on various schemes of utilizing the date, and many of them had to be modified to prevent the systems from malfunctioning. It was neither rocket science nor was the effort trivial.
You correctly characterized the situation. "What level of failure do you want?" The level we wanted was such that our multi-million dollar business was economically unaffected. We succeeded.
The Darwinian/Marxist socialists still believe in world-wide domination. They believe in global redistribution of wealth, just as the U.S. Congress seems to believe in domestic redistribution of wealth (through the graduated income tax; etc.)
The global warming club (Gore and friends) is simply one component of the overall united effort to move the wealth of the north to the southern continents, and the political, social and moral powers from the West to the East.
To do this you must incessantly blame the North and the West for ALL of mankind’s ills, and get naive Westerners to weep sorely for people who prefer darkness to light in the South and in the East.
see entry entitled "CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas
Climate change: a guide for the perplexed
As noted to the author of the thread in the post above, the entry entitled "CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas is relevant to Augie Auer's frequently repeated, just as frequently incorrect, point.
Horner doesn't point out the obvious difference between the hemispheres primarily responsible for this dichotomy: the large difference in ocean vs. continental area between the two hemispheres. The ocean is a moderating factor in the warming of the SH.
Climate scientists, of course, are perfectly well aware of this.
The article was extremely erroneous.
The warming of the oceans during the 5 deg. C global temperature change between glacial and interglacial conditions is only responsible for about 10 ppm of the 80 ppm change in atmospheric CO2 concentrations (see my profile, point #5). For the currently much smaller temperature increase, the increase in CO2 from warmer oceans is essentially negligible.
For CO2 it is. See my profile, point #1.
Kyoto Al Gore invented the internet and is the discoverer of global warming. What a great resume.........better yet, what a great epitaph!
Numerous oceanographic measurements indicate that the oceans are a net sink (=absorbing) atmospheric CO2. As they warm, they will absorb less, a positive feedback that will potentially augment the increase in atmospheric CO2 due primarily to fossil fuel emissions.
No credible model of global climate could exclude water vapor.
Full report of IPCC Working Group 1
See Section 3.4.2
They are not the same.
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