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| Who unleashed Climatism? |
| 2016-01-20 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna [WattsUpWithThat] This article is intended mostly for American audiences. Today, it seems almost normal that the IPCC, UNFCCC and CAN (Climate Action Network International) interfere in American internal affairs, deciding who are scientists and who are not, telling us how much energy to use and from what sources, and generally sowing discord and polarizing society (with enormous success, I must admit). For more than 30 years, their claims of dangerous global warming caused by CO2 emissions have served as an excuse for this invasion. If there is a "problem," and the "problem" is global and America is its main cause, they reason, why not gang up on America? But the "problem" is imaginary, and has always been imaginary. The readers of this site know that. Serious scientific assessments have never come to alarming conclusions, even when assuming exaggerated climate sensitivity to CO2. So what happened? To answer this question, we need to clearly understand three historical facts: 1) Almost all climate science between 1970 and 1992 was conducted in the USA. 2) Almost all climate politics in the same period originated elsewhere. 3) Climate politics led to climate pseudo-science, not the other way around. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 I'm an original witness to the SIRIUS Event in the late 1960's, but it twasn't me that introduced Climatism. By law I was just a kid - check wid the Adults. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-01-20 20:24 |
| #4 Lizard People at Denver International want warmer weather. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-01-20 17:37 |
| #3 none of which are not well understand --> none of which are well understood. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-01-20 13:14 |
| #2 Lots of negative feedbacks none of which are not well understood by our "settled science" alarmists. For example, cloud formation. While clouds can trap heat (positive feedback) they also reflect sun light (negative feedback). Any excess of heat at the surface leads to, you guessed it, more evaporation. Evaporation transfers latent heat to the top of the atmosphere where when clouds form that latent heat is released and radiated out into space. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-01-20 13:12 |
| #1 With regard to the climate, I came across this while following the excitements in Germany in recent weeks. The conclusion bears attention as well: Giant icebergs slow global warming [DeutscheWelle] Researchers have found that the plume of cold water released from massive icebergs increases carbon storage in the seas - far more than previously thought. This negative feedback loop significantly slows climate change. ... "We still don't fully understand the climate system - I wouldn't be surprised if there were further both negative and positive feedback that could possibly accelerate or slow down global warming," Bigg concluded [study author Grant Bigg, an Earth systems professor at the University of Sheffield in England]. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-20 10:12 |