It’s nice when left and right can agree
Alexander Cockburn discusses AGW and compares Copenhagen to the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, when Arianism was the controversy of the day:
landmines include e-mails from Kevin Trenberth, the head of the Climate Analysis Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. On Oct. 14, he wrote to the CRU’s Tom Wigley: “How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are no where close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing to make the planet brighter. We are not close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geo-engineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!”
Only a few weeks before Copenhagen, here is a scientist in the inner AGW circle disclosing that “we are no where close to knowing” how the supposedly proven AGW warming model might actually work, and that therefore geoengineering — such as carbon mitigation — is “hopeless.”
This admission edges close to acknowledgment of a huge core problem: that “greenhouse” theory violates the second law of thermodynamics, which says that a cooler body cannot warm a hotter body without compensation. Greenhouse gases in the cold upper atmosphere cannot possibly transfer heat to the warmer earth, and in fact radiate their absorbed heat into outer space. (Readers interested in the science can read Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf Tscheuschner’s “Falsification of the Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within the Frame of Physics,” updated in January 2009.)
Recent data from many monitors including the CRU, available on climate4you.com, show that the average temperature of the atmosphere and the oceans near the surface of the earth has decreased significantly across the past eight years or so. CO2 is a benign gas essential to life, occurring in past eras at five times present levels. Changes in atmospheric CO2 do not correlate with human emissions of CO2, the latter being entirely trivial in the global balance.
Roger Simon points out a new and intriguing possibility from a scientist at the University of Waterloo, that CFCs had a warming effect which has stopped and reversed: “’Most remarkably, the total amount of CFCs, ozone-depleting molecules that are well-known greenhouse gases, has decreased around 2000,’ Lu said. ‘Correspondingly, the global surface temperature has also dropped. In striking contrast, the CO2 level has kept rising since 1850 and now is at its largest growth rate.’ In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years.” Stay tuned and stay warm.
December 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am
That “False Greenhouse Science” paper costs $25, but the abstract is interesting.
“The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896), and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of thermodynamics, such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature, it is taken for granted that such a mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation.”
It goes on to list a series of AGW conjectures which the paper will show are wrong wrong wrong.
It is alarming how far into the science journals the “settled science scam” of AGW penetrated, and even more alarming how its exposure is being ignored by our heads of state. This is a (not all that stealthy) attack on our economy, that could have more dire consequences than 9/11, yet our dear leaders are still denying an attack has occurred, as if our scientific community has not been infiltrated.
Obama denies there is any question about AGW, he denies he pushing toward “single payer” (BigGov health care), and he denies he heard Rev. Wright say any of those controversial things over his 20 year relationship with the man.
Deny Deny Deny …. our Denier in chief.
January 7th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Save the planet from global cooling!…start discharging Freon again, or we’ll all freeze!
Sorry, but as I watch the snow piling up and read about poor folks in britain burning obsolete books to keep warm, I could wish for a bit of global warming right now. We still have a spotless sun, which generally indicates a cold period.