Comments on: Quick Hits & 1 Long Hit 5/6/08 http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/3-quick-hits-1-long-hit-5608/ My little piece of cyberspace. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:15:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: weatherdem http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/3-quick-hits-1-long-hit-5608/#comment-456 weatherdem Tue, 06 May 2008 21:43:17 +0000 http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-456 I'll dismiss anyone who uses silly terminology like "true believers". Belief is for religion. Understanding is for science. I understand the data and the science behind climate change. Dr. Chapman seems unable to do so. Case in point: the Earth's average temperature has not been steady or falling in the past decade. It's 0.3C warmer than in was 10 years ago. Look at the actual data: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007 8 out of the 10 warmest years on record occurred in the past 10 years: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/news/cc_global_variability_figures.html#g_a_r_temp The effect of sunspots has been greatly over-hyped by the denyer crowd. It's been debunked. The extent of Arctic sea ice reached a recorded history low last year. The volume of ice is at an all time low - one reason why the record melt last summer occurred. It's funny how opinion pieces like this point out anecdotal cases don't prove anything, yet they cite them anyway. That's a stupid way to argue something. The Nature article never stated that global warming was stopping until 2015. Instead of reading opinion pieces by ideological hacks, I recommend reading the article. By the way, the author of the opinion piece was written by Deroy Murdock, a media fellow with the Hoover Institution. The Hoover Institution has received $295,000 in funding from ExxonMobil alone in just the past nine years. People like Deroy are paid to spread climate change disinformation to the public. It looks like he's earning his over-sized paychecks. I’ll dismiss anyone who uses silly terminology like “true believers”. Belief is for religion. Understanding is for science. I understand the data and the science behind climate change. Dr. Chapman seems unable to do so. Case in point: the Earth’s average temperature has not been steady or falling in the past decade. It’s 0.3C warmer than in was 10 years ago. Look at the actual data:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007
8 out of the 10 warmest years on record occurred in the past 10 years:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/news/cc_global_variability_figures.html#g_a_r_temp

The effect of sunspots has been greatly over-hyped by the denyer crowd. It’s been debunked.

The extent of Arctic sea ice reached a recorded history low last year. The volume of ice is at an all time low - one reason why the record melt last summer occurred.

It’s funny how opinion pieces like this point out anecdotal cases don’t prove anything, yet they cite them anyway. That’s a stupid way to argue something.

The Nature article never stated that global warming was stopping until 2015. Instead of reading opinion pieces by ideological hacks, I recommend reading the article.

By the way, the author of the opinion piece was written by Deroy Murdock, a media fellow with the Hoover Institution. The Hoover Institution has received $295,000 in funding from ExxonMobil alone in just the past nine years. People like Deroy are paid to spread climate change disinformation to the public. It looks like he’s earning his over-sized paychecks.

]]> By: disinter http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/3-quick-hits-1-long-hit-5608/#comment-455 disinter Tue, 06 May 2008 20:07:48 +0000 http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-455 “Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.” Dr. Phil Chapman wrote in The Australian on April 23. “All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.” Chapman neither can be caricatured as a greedy oil-company lobbyist nor dismissed as a flat-Earther. He was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff physicist, NASA’s first Australian-born astronaut, and Apollo 14’s Mission Scientist. http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/32821 “Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.” Dr. Phil Chapman wrote in The Australian on April 23. “All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.”

Chapman neither can be caricatured as a greedy oil-company lobbyist nor dismissed as a flat-Earther. He was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff physicist, NASA’s first Australian-born astronaut, and Apollo 14’s Mission Scientist.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/32821

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