Posted on 01/18/2011 3:53:39 AM PST by markomalley
Willis Eschenbachs recent guest post at Watts Up With That? on the current state of Climate science should be made compulsory reading in every classroom, every university science department, every eco-charity, every environmental NGO and in every branch of government. They wont like it up em, thats for sure.
What Eschenbach says is so pure and simple and obvious youd need to be as dumb as Chris Huhne not to get it:
The theory linking man-made CO2 with dangerous global warming is dead. It has been falsified. It has run smack bang into a null hypothesis. It has met its Waterloo. It has bought the farm. It has gone for a Burton. It has cashed in its chips, fallen off its perch, gone south, gone west, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible. Man-made Global Warming has ceased to exist.
Eschenbach wrote his post in response to a bizarre speech prepared by Dr Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which he intended to deliver to the American Meteorological Society. Trenberth is the arch-warmist perhaps best known for writing the Climategate email which went:
The fact is that we cant account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we cant.
When Trenberths speech was pre-published on the internet it caused something of a stir, both for the way large chunks of it had been taken almost verbatim from another scientist and for its use six times of the word denier. (Thanks to some kindly advice proferred by Steve McIntyre, Trenberth has now significantly altered his speech. Deniers has been altered to sceptics. Probably quite sensibly since many in the AMS, being meteorologists rather than climate scientists tend very much to…
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Just got a call from a company called Green Home, Inc. wanting to do an energy audit on my house.
Told the caller, "I do not do business with any company that refers to itself as being Green or wanting me to go green."
Messy? I'd say it's probably impossible, just like trying to determine an "average" temperature of the earth. How do you define an equilibrium in a chaotic system with limitless variables?
You have a good point. However, if we can measure solar + cosmic influx, earth’s outflux and estimate the relatively small amount of heat being generated on the surface and escaping from the core to the surface, we should have a pretty good idea of the rate of change of averages of earth’s surface or atmospheric temperature. It doesn’t tell you the weather in Boise next week, but it does tell you whether or not it’s getting warmer.
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