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SuzanneKneeling -> RE: Wannabe GOP chair: "God will protect us from climate change" (11/15/2010 12:54:18 PM)
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I’m afraid I'm skeptical about our contribution to global warming. Yes, I have read and listened to many of the pro climate change scientist’s reports but I have also read and listened to anti scientists, atmospheric physicists, climatologists and archeologists.
Thank you, Prof. allthatjaz, for taking time away from your busy research to fill us in. And you've published these contrary findings in which climate-related journals again? And where are all these anti-scientists [sic] then? They seem to fail to show up in significant numbers when people do exhaustive searches of peer-reviewed literature or polling of published climate scientists.
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Thousands of bore holes show that the middle ages were warmer than today.
There is little evidence that the "Medieval Warm" was anything more than a northern hemispheric phenomenon.
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We have had a 6,000 year melting trend in the Antarctic and yet during the middle ages the Antarctic cooled and gained ice mass. We are now being blamed for the ice melt that has re-started over the last 30 years.
Global warming, allthatjaz, global. That means average global temperature increasing. You can - and do - have all sorts of regional shifting around of energy, from all kinds of complex dynamics. The concern is that the earth is in the past few decades absorbing a net amount of energy, compared to the previous equilibrium. That corresponds to an unprecedented buildup of CO2, among other GHGs.
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The USA had 5 of its hottest years in recorded history 80 years ago and in 2006 the USA reported one of the coldest Octobers since records began.
And where would those five years appear on the NASA GISS record? Other than the industrial boom corresponding to the WWII years (following a global depression), I don't see those. In any case we've long since wiped out those "hot" years.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
(from http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/ )
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Are we just coming out of another cold period in history? Is this a global pattern that happens perhaps every 500 years or so?
I think we need to be cautious about accepting our contribution of global warming. We may well have an affect on global warming but I believe its in a very, very small way.
Again, your learned, cautiously-considered opinion is not shared by 97% of a field that comprises tens of thousands of PhD scientists in a wide variety of interacting fields. Could you share where your special, additional information and wisdom comes from?
I just love it that people feel like they can vote on natural phenomena. Let's all repeal the laws of gravity. I'm tired of not being able to fly, and dammit, my opinion should count just as much as any physicist's.
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