Candidates on the Issues: Global Warming

The Associated Press ^ | Wed, Feb 04, 2004

[RightWingAtheist]

And what exactly are the sources you are citing for your "facts"? Please list them here so the rest of us can verify their legitimacy.

[boris]

You might begin your education with the facts I have laid before you here.

[ancient_geezer]

Sen. Joe Lieberman: "Yes. I attended and supported the work at the international conferences in Buenos Aires and Kyoto. Recently, Senator John McCain and I introduced groundbreaking legislation to help cut greenhouse gas emissions."

But it is much more effective, and less costly, to remove the root cause of global warming.

At the rate of reduction in radiative forcing due to political hot air, "Global Warming" is being cancelled out and is actually in the process of reversal.

Kyoto Protocol: "A useless appendage to an irrelevant treaty"
Patrick J. Michaels, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, and Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at Cato Institute

The primary equation by which radiative forcing for a doubling of CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere has fallen to <85% of the value assigned to it by the UN/IPCC in 1990.

• 4.37 wm^-2 = 6.3 ln(C/C0), Shine et al. in IPPC Climate Change (1990)
• 3.70 wm^-2 = 5.35 ln(C/C₀), Myhre et al., 1998b, in IPCC Climate Change(2001)

That represents a reduction in green house gas warming of 0.68wm^-2 across eight years through the mere expediant of removing a portion of the political hot air, from UN/IPCC's original coefficients for calculating radiative forcing of CO₂.

This is equivalent to a 13% reduction in CO₂ concentrations in the atmosphere from 360ppm to 317ppm, the level of CO₂ in the atmosphere in 1960.

8 years of removing hot air from the global warming climate has compensated for 40years of CO₂ accumulation.

Figure 1: Atmospheric CO2 concentrations in parts per million by volume, ppm, at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. These measurements agree well with those at other locations (1). Periodic cycle is caused by seasonal variations in CO2 absorption by plants. Approximate global level of atmospheric CO2 in 1900 and 1940 is also displayed (2).

The UN/IPCC estimates that the industrial age has added a net CO₂ forcing of 1.4wm^-2 up to the year 2000.

The means the root cause of global warming (political hot air) has a half life of 8years, and we can expect hot air forcing to wither away to nothing in just a few decades as the natural balance of common sense returns to the scientific community.