Posted on 12/17/2002 12:58:53 PM PST by new cruelty
Click the first link below for "Junk Science - Harvard and Beyond" as I submitted it to UPI, minutes ago.
Congressman Billybob
Click for latest column on UPI, "Junk Science - Harvard and Beyond" (Not yet on UPI wire, nor FR.)
If we agree with them that there is warming then we can lay them off, their work is done. After spending $100 billion on scientists to detect a 0.1 degree increase enough is enough. I'd rather spend future money on a) what temperature do we want? and b) what technologies can we use to set that temperature? A Luddite approach to our environment is silly. It could be we should be giving tax breaks to factories to produce more CO2, not less.
If it were really on track to break records, they would have waited until January 1 and made a statement about the full year average. Instead, when it was clear it wasn't going to be a record, they effectively threw out a cold month (December) and just pretend that it is apples to apples to compare January through November 2002 to January through December in some other year.
Hansen gets more and more a pure media spin "shill", without any scientific standards, as time goes on...
Good question. Here's the latest from NOAA: Current El Nino.
From that NOAA site: This is a classic El Niño pattern, said retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used Mann's "hockey stick" global temperature reconstruction as the basis of their investigation into climate change. If one assumes a temperature record like Mann's that is relatively flat or slightly declining except for the last 100 years or so, then the only explanation for the last century's rise in temperature becomes the human influence.
Other scientists do not agree with Mann's temperature reconstruction: Temperature Record.
The Little Ice Age was clearly global in its extent. I've been following scientific papers on it for years, and I about fell out of my chair when I saw what the IPCC had used.
"It is now clear that human (activity) has become dominant over the natural variability."
Sure, and I have some ocean front property in Colorado tah sell yah.
Globally Averaged Atmospheric Temperatures This chart shows the monthly temperature changes for the lower troposphere - Earth's atmosphere from the surface to 8 km, or 5 miles up. The temperature in this region is more strongly influenced by oceanic activity, particularly the "El Niño" and "La Niña" phenomena, which originate as changes in oceanic and atmospheric circulations in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The overall trend in the tropospheric data is near zero, being +0.04 C/decade through Feb 2002. Click on the chart to get the numerical data. |
Ice Ages & Astronomical Causes Figure 1-1 Global warming Figure 1-2 Climate of the last 2400 years
Figure 1-3 Climate of the last 12,000 years Figure 1-4 Climate of the last 100,000 years Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice |
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