Comments on: When a company says it is acting in the “public interest,” check your wallet http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/01/23/when-a-company-says-it-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-check-your-wallet/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:25:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/01/23/when-a-company-says-it-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-check-your-wallet/#comment-301143 gs Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:42:13 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/01/23/when-a-company-says-it-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-check-your-wallet/#comment-301143 The linked paper claims that the steady increase in temperature might be temporarily masked by a cyclical process which currently is in a downturn. So: *Hot weather is evidence for global warming. *Unsettled weather is evidence for global warming. *Cool weather is evidence for global warming. Despite the foregoing derision, I do not rule out anthropogenic global warming, and I favor continuing climate research. It's disquieting that the Kyoto negotiations were <a href="http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php" rel="nofollow">initiated</a> only a year after the <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v367/n6465/abs/367723a0.html" rel="nofollow">seminal</a> paper about the temperature cycle which now is said to temporarily mask global warming. What else might we not yet understand? The linked paper claims that the steady increase in temperature might be temporarily masked by a cyclical process which currently is in a downturn. So:

*Hot weather is evidence for global warming.
*Unsettled weather is evidence for global warming.
*Cool weather is evidence for global warming.

Despite the foregoing derision, I do not rule out anthropogenic global warming, and I favor continuing climate research.

It’s disquieting that the Kyoto negotiations were initiated only a year after the seminal paper about the temperature cycle which now is said to temporarily mask global warming. What else might we not yet understand?

]]> By: Barry http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/01/23/when-a-company-says-it-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-check-your-wallet/#comment-301136 Barry Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:12:10 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/01/23/when-a-company-says-it-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-check-your-wallet/#comment-301136 Don't worry. Nobody else does either. Don’t worry. Nobody else does either.

]]> By: Barry http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/01/23/when-a-company-says-it-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-check-your-wallet/#comment-301132 Barry Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:01:32 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/01/23/when-a-company-says-it-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-check-your-wallet/#comment-301132 "Similarities with our Present World" see graph 1/3 the way down. http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html See a correlation? “Similarities with our Present World” see graph 1/3 the way down.

http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

See a correlation?

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