Do these papers represent the absolute truth on climate change and man’s role in it? I doubt it. And that’s the point isn’t it. Science is all about doubting, questioning, challenging and searching for rational truth. When science become politicized as it has in the climate change debate, science becomes dysfunctional and a false means of manipulation and influencing public policy. We all need to do a little less “believing” and a little more “knowing” before we act and let others act on our behalf. The science of global warming is not settled. Read. Read a lot! Know more. Believe less. Warming or cooling, it makes for a happier, safer and calmer world.
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One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.
“I think that this, at moderate scale, is what is going in the AGW debate. When one side finds the other denying the “obvious” relevance of some fact, the principle of charity breaks down. Either the other guy doesn’t know what he’s saying, or he’s too much a fool to be worth talking to. Which is a reasonable position, provided we note that what will seem obvious, or indeed “reasonable”, will depend upon one’s background theory and different background theories will lead to contrary conclusions about who is and who is not a fool. Thus the unalloyed mutual acrimony of the AGW debate.”
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A dense read through much techspeak, Glassman’s critique is a worthwhile eye opener, especially for those readers grounded in engineering or the sciences. Put it this way, if an engineer relied on models with the same deficiencies as the Global Climate Change Models and then advocated his employer bet the farm on the results, he’d be making what’s referred to as a career limiting move. Despite this, the United Nation’s IPCC has adopted these GCMs as the burning bush of climate change.
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Professor Svensmark concludes……”So in many ways, we stand at a crossroads. The near future will be extremely interesting and I think it is important to recognize that nature is completely independent of what we humans think about it. Will Greenhouse theory survive a significant cooling of the Earth? Not in its current dominant form. Unfortunately, tomorrow’s climate challenges will be quite different than greenhouse theory’s predictions, and perhaps it becomes again popular to investigate the sun’s impact on climate.”
Richard Feynman was a delightful national treasure and Nobel Prize winning Physicist. You many remember him as the thoughtful scientist who nailed the root cause of the Challenger space shuttle disaster – cold 0-rings – which he demonstrated live during a presentation covered by the media by dropping some of the same 0-ring material into his glass of ice water. He also worked on the Manhattan Project. For Richard, being a scientist meant the truth was more important than being right. Integrity in science is paramount. Without it, science isn’t science and it will fail us. Or worse. We live in troubled pivotal times where money, politics and environmental fervor have created a heady cocktail that may be luring too many scientists – and society – astray. Richard warned his fellow scientist about going over to the dark side during his famous “Cargo Cult Science” commencement address that he gave at Caltech in 1974. If, like me, you’re grappling with all we’ve been told to date regarding global warming, climate change, carbon, and mankind’s role in it all, you could do a lot worse than read Feynman’s address regarding the slippery slope to bad science that he refers to as “Cargo Cult Science”.
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Perhaps most surprising to me personally is the Vostok ice core data that goes back 100′s of thousands of years as shown plotted in the graph below. You’d be right if you concluded that this data shows a clear correlation between Co2 and temperature. But a closer analysis reveals (not discernible in the graph) that the CO2 lags behind the temperature by an average of 800 years! Temperatures do indeed appear to control carbon and not the other way around (perhaps through temperature driven solubility changes in sea water). And while it’s possible that carbon also influences temperature the data don’t show much evidence of that. As temperatures rise, on average it takes 800 years before carbon starts to move. The extraordinary thing is that this CO2 lag is well accepted by climatologists, yet virtually unknown outside these circles.
Part I showed how ice core drillings in Vostok/Antarctica going back 420,000 years show undeniable correlation between CO2 and temperature in the atmosphere throughout numerous cooling/warming cycles. However, the temperature changes occurred 800 years ahead of the CO2 changes; not the other way around. It’s noteworthy that Al Gore used this same data in support of his core argument that carbon is driving global warming in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, but failed to point out that CO2 changes lagged behind temperature changes by 800 years (perhaps another inconvenient truth). Part II discusses how some scientists see solar and clouds (water vapor) as alternative (to CO2) drivers of climate change.
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If you try to sort through the clutter of fact and fiction surrounding climate change, much of what you hear and read is all too often seen through the distorted lenses of “believers” and “deniers”. Believers approach climate change with the glazed over ferver of religious zealots. Ever try to have a rational conversation with a true believer? Now there’s an oxymoron. Deniers on the other hand, while they give off an entirely different vibe, are just as vested in their own earnest beliefs that climate change is a fabricated hoax.
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