Posted on 11/22/2009 5:58:18 PM PST by chessplayer
6C? last i heard from those loonies was 3C.
i guess they decided to double down since they have been exposed
Yep, these stories were probably in a tickler file waiting for the collossal conclave in Copenhagen.
The timing of this story indicates one thing,
The author of it should be fired.
Bwaaaahahahaha!!!
Good one! LOL
At least most of them didn't know that ~ but one of them did ~ 'cause he released it.
Here's a thought. Researchers recently found that blue-green algae are actually 5% more efficient than previously thought. They constitute a serious carbon sink taking CO2 and turning it into more stable carbon compounds and releasing oxygen. They'd previously been credited with releasing half our atmospheres oxygen, but now their contribution has been re-estimated.
There's a lower bound for the CO2 content of the atmosphere when it comes to blue-green algae (aka cyanobacter) ~ something like 200 ppm or they just die off. I don't believe there's an upper bound, but as long as they get all the nutrients they need, and plenty of space to spread in the ocean surface, they should expand relative to any increase in the amount of CO2 and suck it in like the hungry little beggars they really are.
Given enough sunlight, enough cyanobacteria, enough infective viruses (which presently infect 10% of the cyanobacteria and thereby boost aggregate production of oxygen considerably), they should maintain a balance.
Currently the CO2 content of our atmosphere is being measured by satellite ~ haven't seen any reports on what it is, but I bet it's lower than what the AWG grant masters have been telling us. The cyanobacter would want it that way.
“They’re just not going to stop with this BS, are they?”
Nope. Too much money and power involved.
Gee, I trend out from the last ten years of global cooling and my data shows the Earth 6C cooler at the end of the century.
“Comments are now closed for this entry.” LOL
It is a good thing to study the climate record and to try to find associations that help to understand how and why climate changed in the past, and how this information might help predict future climate shifts. It is quite another to make sensational statements like those that are the focus of this post. They are basing this on computer modeling. There are probably less variables in determining what the trends will be on Wall Street than there are in determining planetary climate, but these guys have it all figured out.
Federal grant money paid for the data collection, and therefore all the data should be available to all of us. Period. There are lots of very bright statisticians and mathematicians around. Let them validate the data analysis, independently. Let them tell us the predictive value and level of certainty that can be inferred from the mathematical models these guys are using.
“Comments are now closed for this entry.”
4th grade in old school....
Student: Can I go to the bathroom?
Teacher: Of course you can but you don’t have permission.
Student: May I go to the bathroom?
Teacher: Yes, you may.
I would like to submit that the current climate models have such large errors in simulating the statistics of regional (climate) that we are not ready to provide policymakers a robust scientific basis for "action" at regional scale. I am not referring to mitigation, I am strictly referring to science based adaptation.
From: J Shukla
To: IPCC-Sec
Subject: Future of the IPCC:
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:46:33 -0500
Natch.
We've been through 20 cycles of this over 2 million years. Now that's a significant data base ~ not at all like the tree ring thing.
Ok... but WILL it? There is a BIG difference between “could” and “will”. It is a matter of confidence in your science. Beware the “Could Clown”...
Uh - that would be less than a 4 degree rise (not 42.8)
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