[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Nice work JW…
I actually shot an interview, with science type guy, who is one of the few people who makes sense of climate,
he says to ridicule the same things that cause global warming, also make it cold when the earth revolves away from the sun…
just saying.[/quote]
That would be…oh, I dunno, the SUN?
edit: let me soften that a little. Sometimes I try to be funny and end up just being annoying.
The sun has a sunspot cycle lasting on average 11 years. The more sunspots the higher the average temperature of the Earth. Fewer sunspots, lower temperatures. Distance from the sun does affect temperature as the earth does not orbit in a perfect circle, as does the axial tilt of the Earth (which is why we have seasons) but the biggest driver of temp in all models by far is how energetic is the sun. Sunspots reached a peak in the last decade before the millennium and have decreased since the millennium. Anybody remember how warm the days were in the 1990’s? Remember the hot days of the early 70’s and the warnings of the coming Ice age thereafter?
also CO2 content of the atmosphere as measured from ice cores and other indicators shows that it trails large scale cycles of warming or cooling by about 300 years. It gets hotter and stays hotter for a while and CO2 starts to climb about 300 years later. It gets cooler and for a long period of time and the CO2 begins to go down 300 years later. They think it has something to do with the oceans acting as a heat and carbon sink. The point here is that Mr. Gore’s IPCC hockey stick chart has it ass-backwards, putting temperature as increasing with CO2 levels and temperature falling with decreasing CO2 levels. It’s a flat-out lie, in other words.
That’s what I’ve been reading anyway. The weather gnomes talk to me, too. When I’m in the shower.[/quote]
Indeed, that does seem to be the consensus amongst those whose research is not funded by the man made global warming crowd. That would include my stepfather (former), a PhD. in Theoretical Chemistry, who worked in Climatology for a decade.
I read an interesting article a few days ago, but can’t find it now, that claimed the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere were virtually unchanged from that of a century ago. Not to mention, as far as greenhouse gases go, CO2 is a weak sister.
But, I readily admit that I am biased. As soon as politicians started using this as an excuse to acquire/concentrate power, I was against it. Dear God do we need a Libertarian president and congress!
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I then yield the soapbox to you, sir.
