Globally self-Warmed Humdinger <
erschro...@gmail.com> wrote:
Mike Varney aka Marvin the Martian <
mar...@ontomars.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:24:26 -0500, Sam Wormley wrote:
> > On 4/7/12 12:03 AM, Marvin the Martian wrote:
> >> On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:20:26 -0500, Sam Wormley wrote:
>
> >>> On 4/6/12 1:47 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> >>>>
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/greenhouse-gases-drove-
> >>>>the-close-of-the-last-ice-age.ars
> >>>> To understand what was happening with the climate at the time, the
> >>>> authors gathered data from 80 different climate proxies, widely
> >>>> distributed around the globe. All of them covered 14,000 years that
> >>>> included the exit from the last ice age; they included things like
> >>>> the ice cores, microfossils in ocean sediments, and pollen from lake
> >>>> sediments. These were then used to reconstruct both the local
> >>>> conditions, such as temperature and ocean current strength, as well
> >>>> as the mean temperature for each hemisphere and the planet as a
> >>>> whole.
>
Mike Varney Marvin wrote:
> >> "To test the influence of various climate influences, the authors reran
> >> their model with only one of the factors in place: either only orbital
> >> forcings or only carbon dioxide forcings. Orbital forcings were able to
> >> drive a very slight increase in temperature over the course of about
> >> 8,000 years, and showed little of the variability seen in the real
> >> world data. In contrast, the CO2-only scenario captured most of the
> >> major features seen in the proxies. "
> >> In other words, they allowed only TWO possible causes for the end of
> >> the ice age - Orbital changes or CO2.
> >> They ignored Svensmark's proven theory entirely.
> >> And since it wasn't orbital, all that was left in their computer model
> >> was CO2 and thus they move the curve 800 years to the future, ignoring
> >> the isotope data in the ice cores that says that is crap.
> >> Stupid as hell. You fell for it, of course.
>
Pinko Green Sam Wormley wrote:
> > What caused the warming, Marvin.
>
Mike Varney Marvin wrote:
> I take it that now you want to change the subject because you've been
> spanked about the silly "black and white", Neglectful induction and
> begging the question fallacies used in the paper.
> I note that you've spammed the newsgroup with your question, as if you
> subscribed to an appeal to ignorance fallacy.
> Quite frankly, if you do believe in your appeal to ignorance fallacy,
> you're stupid. You're also using the same fallacy that was used in the
> paper to throw out the data that shows that CO2 rose AFTER the climate
> change. "If not this, it must be that!" is a fallacy.
> The answer, of course, that climate is a complex system and NO ONE
> understands it very well. We do know, however, that the CAGW "scientists"
> are completely wrong - bad physics, failure of their predictive
> hypothesis, complete non-science used in their methods, and out and out
> fraud and lies.
> Then with Milankovitch cycles, greenhouse gases (which you don't
> understand...), ocean cycles and so on.
> If you think you can reduce it all down to just CO2, you're simple
> minded.
>
Humdinger wrote:
Uh, the basic science is 5th grade level:
1. The earth is warming.
2. CO2 traps heat.
3. CO2 is up 40% in the earth's atmosphere.
4. Isotopic analysis shows the CO2 is from fossil fuels.
5. All other causes of the current warming have been
investigated and ruled out.
>
hanson wrote:
... "ruled out", except for the causes of these AGWers
who quoted their Green Bible that says:
>
7 "No matter if the science is all phony, Climate change
= provides equality in the world."
= -- Christine Stewart, Canada Enviro Minister.
>
6 "Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
= we will be doing the right thing".
= -- Sen.Tim Wirth, Admin of Ted Turner's $1Billion UN-gift.
>
2 "If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic, then ...
= make it up on the spot... for the mass-media today...
= the truth is irrelevant."
= -- Paul Watson in Earthforce: An Earth Warrior's Guide to Strategy.
>
1 "It doesn't matter what is true ...
= it only matters what people believe is true.
= -- Paul Watson, Sea Shepard/ex-Greenpeace
>
5 "to attract great funding you have to scare the public
= by making things bigger and more dangerous
+ than they really are."
= --Petr Chylek, Prof. Atmospheric Sci., Dalhousie Uni, Halifax.
>
9 "We make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little
= mention of any doubts we may have [about] being honest."
-- Stephen Schneider (Stanford prof. who first sought fame as
= a global cooler, but then hit the big time as a global warmer)
>