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2006-11-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Frank G 2006-11-05 17:51|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "It brands Apocalypse-deniers as paid lackeys of coal and oil corporations."
No, I'm not.

Posted by Darrell 2006-11-05 19:49|| 2006-11-05 19:49|| Front Page Top

#2 "The bigger the value of lambda, the bigger the temperature increase the UN could predict. Using poor Ludwig Boltzmann's law, lambda's true value is just 0.22-0.3C per watt. In 2001, the UN effectively repealed the law, doubling lambda to 0.5C per watt. A recent paper by James Hansen says lambda should be 0.67, 0.75 or 1C: take your pick. Sir John Houghton, who chaired the UN's scientific assessment working group until recently, tells me it now puts lambda at 0.8C: that's 3C for a 3.7-watt doubling of airborne CO2. Most of the UN's computer models have used 1C. Stern implies 1.9C."
Unbelievable. Criminal even, to the extent that public funds are spent on this deceit.

Posted by Darrell 2006-11-05 19:55|| 2006-11-05 19:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, the science is even dodgier. Were the feedbacks mentioned, and necessary to get any warming over half a degree, to exist they would certainly been triggered in the past when temperatures were higher than today resulting in the runaway warming the models predict. We know for certain that the earth's temperature has never been more than a couple of degrees warmer than today (going back millions of years).

Ergo, these feedbacks do not exist or if they do exist they are not capable of causing significant additional warming.

Posted by phil_b 2006-11-05 22:30|| 2006-11-05 22:30|| Front Page Top

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