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Do you think those who consider models inaccurate and useless will pay any attention to the Caribbean Rossby whistle?
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Or to what it says about the accuracy of models and their ability to produce useful data and insights from really noisy data like individual tide gauges?
1 AnswerGlobal Warming5 years agoIs it worthwhile categorizing climate naysayers?
I've noticed several different styles in the naysayers in the Global Warming naysayers here. Broadly, I've seen conspiracy theorists, religion-based science deniers, anti-intellectuals, political debaters, economic-theory supremacists, and just plain trolls. Is there any value in such categorization and is there any value in just not engaging the trolls?
9 AnswersGlobal Warming5 years agoDoesn t the recent revelation of Exxon s suppression of internal science point out the problems with rejecting expert opinion based on who s paying?
It seems to me that it might be more pertinent to ask if they are - say - scientists doing science, rather than being paid lobbyists, some of whom have science degrees.
5 AnswersPolitics6 years agoJoint climate statement by BRS and NAS?
The British Royal Society and the American National Academy of Sciences issued a joint statement on climate change Feb. 27th. We see objections to IPCC publications here before they're even released, commentary on articles in obscure Russian journals, discussion of 30 year old magazine articles, and reference to opinions in psychology journals. Why do you think this clear and unequivocal joint statement, with references to original data, by two of the most respected scientific establishments has been ignored?
6 AnswersGlobal Warming7 years agoIn all the huhu about the "failed Antarctic expedition"?
How many of you noticed that the ship was on the way home when it got stuck?
8 AnswersGlobal Warming7 years agoDiminishing logarithmic relationships?
There've been a number of posts lately along the lines of "CO2's warming effect logarithmically diminishes with concentration, it is the first 0 to 100ppm that has done nearly all the warming, double our CO2 now would hardly have a noticeable effect, fractions of a degree C only" (quoting from one such answer)
Can you show a logarithmic equation in which successive doublings don't have exactly the same effect?
7 AnswersGlobal Warming8 years agoWill fracking give us the breathing room we need for renewable energy development.?
There is a lot of concern right now about the environmental impacts of fracking for natural gas. Natural gas production by fracking, though, is considerably more environmentally friendly than coal production by mining. Production and transportation costs are enough lower for gas than coal that gas is now a cheaper energy source than coal in the U.S. There are substantial reserves that can be developed by fracking in the rest of the world as well.Coal, which fuels about 45% of U.S. electrical power generation right now, generates about .96 Kg of CO2 per Kw-hr of electricity produced. Natural gas only exhausts about .57Kg CO2/Kw-hr when burned in the same efficiency powerplant. Newer dual-cycle gas-fired plants can about double the efficiency of coal-fired plants. Replacing coal-fired plants with natural gas would therefore decrease our CO2 output from electrical generation by more than 20%. In the 10-20 years until solar becomes the cheapest form of electrical energy, will lower-priced natural gas decrease our CO2 output enough to keep us below a 1000 Gt budget for world cumulative output from fossil fuel?
9 AnswersGlobal Warming10 years agoWhat do people who object to Cap and Trade's extra costs think of this?
Many AGW deniers have stated that cap and trade's effects on the economy would be ruinous. A recent question here cited sources that estimated the effect on the average American family at less than $100/year. Here's a federal bill that's giving established industry $31 billion - that's $100 per person, not household. Is that not ruinous?
4 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoAre you interested in how scientists cross-check data?
The latest cooperation between NASA and ESA on ice data is a good example.
5 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWhich face of Murdoch do you look to?
The one which says global warming is a scam, or the one which trumpets environmental foresight?
4 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWhy do you think AGW deniers aren't jumping all over Bill Gates?
9 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoCan you name a scientific swindle?
Global warming deniers are absolutely convinced (or say they are) that there is a scientific conspiracy aimed at pushing global warming on the world for nefarious purposes. Certainly there have been individual scientists and labs who have faked their data - a fraud gets exposed every decade or so. These cases typically get exposed when no other lab can duplicate the fraudulent results. My question is has there EVER been a case where fraud involved a conspiracy larger than an individual lab? And would anyone care to compare this with the incidence of fraudulent conspiracies in the political field?
9 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoElk Rut in New Mexico?
I'd like to know when the elk rut in the Zuni mountains, either this year or in general.
1 AnswerHunting1 decade agoHow do the recent "confessions" of interfering in Iranian elections?
make you feel about the reliability of information obtained by torture? Is it worth violating our Constitution and its principles just to hear what the person being "interrogated" thinks you want to hear?
2 AnswersLaw & Ethics1 decade agoWhere does all the heat go?
We know from industrial production records approximately how much carbon we have brought up from underground and injected into the atmosphere by burning since the industrial revolution.
We know that the observed rise in atmospheric and oceanic CO2 is approximately equal to what we have dug/pumped up and burned.
We know from straightforward engineering physics that that much CO2 added to the atmosphere will result in about 1.5 watt/sq. meter reduction in the heat the planet looses to space.
The question is - if you feel that global warming is not occurring, what mechanism are you proposing to offset the known forcing of that much CO2?
8 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade ago