Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/10/2009 11:00:00 AM PST by Teflonic
Everything Al Gore believes about carbon is wrong.
Data? Data? We don't need no steenkin' DATA!
This, among other contradicting reports, will be buried.
“terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2”
ya mean, increased CO2 leads to increased plant growth that absorbs the increased CO2?
Because increased plant life is necessary to support whoever and whatever is giving off the excess CO2?
As if the earth were a living ecosystem that had some mysterious ability to self-correct and balance itself to support life?
Nah, never ......
That would be cool. Then we would have no need for Lord O'bama.
Oops! What am I saying?
Ping
Everybody has to believe something. I believe I'll have another drink. Al Gore believes, correctly, that the carbon racket is making him a millionaire many times over and awarding him fame and accolades he could never have achieved in any honest line of work.
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“it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models.”
WORDS YOU AREN”T LIKELY TO HEAR SPOKEN PUBLICALLY BY ENVIRO-WACKOS AND THE IPCC:
Complex computations that relay on complex climate models are much preferrable to facts, as they can be coaxed into telling you exactly what it is that we want to you hear. Enviro-justice must be served and the truth can really inhibit our ability to accomplish world-wide redistribution of wealth. So, of course, climate models work the best!
In fact, if we had our way, these rogue scientists taking actual measurments would quietly disappear.
Yes, and he will receive further reward when he dies and enters the kingdom of.... well, it ain't heaven is all I will say.
I’m in the computer software development business, and years ago I developed a model of a gas compressor that put out more gas than it took in. THE COMPUTER SAID SO. I tried to sell it like that, but no go. It turns out I had made an error in my model.
So according to the enviro-wackos, this report is bad because it is based on facts and not perceptions. They cannot let facts get in the way with how they feel about things.
“... found that in fact the trend in the airborne fraction since 1850 has only been 0.7 ± 1.4% per decade, which is essentially zero.”
With that error, the range is -0.7 to 2.1 %. (Could be up - could be down!). Also, water vapor is a much stronger component to the greenhouse effect. Something like 2 to 3x “better” than CO2. So, that 0.7% CO2 only adds something like 0.2% to the greenhouse EFFECT. But hey, if we can cripple our economy to get that 0.2% down by 25% (to say, 0.15%) - I guess that’s a good thing.
Absolutely true, if you’re a commie.
One of the first rules that every scientist is supposed to learn is that when the model contradicts the data, the model is wrong.
The whole Al Gore/Jim Hansen/Green CAGW thing is falling apart. This new finding supports the notion that CO2 is not nearly as long-lived as had been assumed and baked into the climate models. More and more people are asking the basic questions that should have been asked back in 1988 when Hansen began his chicken little routine.
There is a new discussion report on Himalayan Glaciers from the Indian Ministry for the Environment that basically aargues that the scaremongering about the disappearance of these glaciers is just that and that there is no significant change in the rate of retreat of these glaciers since the last Ice Age - averaging 5 meters per year or about 500 yards per century!
The new Finish TV special that points out the flawed science underpinning the iconic hockey stick is excellent. Transcripts are available at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/09/mcintyre-and-lindzen-to-appear-on-finnish-tv-documentary-transcript/
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