On 5/21/2013 7:14 AM, David Hartung wrote:
> On 05/21/2013 06:11 AM, Man of Mind wrote:
>> On 5/20/2013 10:45 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>
>> Still trying to parade this worthless pseudo-science around, eh?
>>
>>> If the climate researchers got the predictions for the past 15 years
>>> wrong,
>>
>> Incorrect..
>>
>>
http://grist.org/climate-energy/global-warming-stopped-in-1998/
>
> The article to which I linked was posted two days ago,
> and has as one of its prime sources a research paper
> published on that same day
You neglected to mention that your article states clearly
that "But long-term, the expected temperature rises will
not alter significantly", and speaks to 'climate sensitivity'.
> From where I sit, the BBC article makes use of recent research,
> and should be seriously considered
Nah, it has an even larger range of 'uncertainty'..
"It is a bigger range of uncertainty," said Dr Otto.
"But it still includes the old range. We would all
like climate sensitivity to be lower but it isn't."
> As I say repeatedly, the fact that temperatures averages have
> been warmer is inescapable, the issue is why.
There is no question as to why, except for you begging
the 'question', David. The volume of air in our troposphere
is finite, and we keep adding an estimated 30 billion tons
of carbon dioxide to that finite volume of air every year..
Quibbling endlessly about this does nothing to improve
the situation, and pretending that it will wreck our
national economy is just another quaint rationalization
being spoon-fed to you by those who stand to lose the
obscene profits they're already making..
> At this point I am not willing to blame mankind
That's your problem..
> especially since such blaming always seems to include
> the USA as the bad guy.
Don't take it so personally, after all, decades of exploiting
other nations and manufacturing your consent, it is indeed
much easier to fool you than to convince you that you've been
fooled..
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government doesn't work and then they get
elected and prove it." --P. J. O'Rourke