TE: In absolute terms, the uptake rate has increased five-fold since 1960:
ATTP: Yes, but the fraction hasn’t changed. The reason the uptake rate has increased in absolute terms is because our emissions have increased.
Uh, no. The reason the uptake rate has increased is that the CO2 PPMV has increased. Even if emissions level off, the CO2 levels will still be rising until the relative uptake rate rises to 100% of emissions.
Bravo curryja.
And, thank you.
you said something sensible…
the other thing to remember is
climate changed before us, and it will continue to change after we are gone. Perhaps the people who fear change should do some sort of course
on dealing with things beyond their control.
Would and example of flockers be those who are not pro-liberty and those who are not pro-America?
oh yes, by all means get the scientists to develop an understanding of politics- political science is just the ticket.
we need some catastrophic anthropogenic global politics.
what a brilliant suggestion from a career trougher – so new and improved.
“Nice.
Obviously if they’re not just dittoheads, then your testimony was so devastating that they are struggling to respond or just simply can’t.” – joshua
Nice to see people foloing themselves.
Do you agree that truths don’t mandate and therefore to require that they do would is simply egregious, Don Don?
> The world should stop dumping CO2 into the atmosphere like there’s no tomorrow, I’ll agree with that.
Is this something you heard from Judy’s testimony, Mark?
Willard,
There are lots of simple truth related to the climate change problem. for example,
Billions of people have access to cheap reliable energy based on fossil fuels, and they don’t want to give it up. Billions more don’t have it and desperately want it.
Wishing for a viable replacement for fossil fuels won’t make it so. Passing a law that requires someone else invent a solution to a problem won’t necessarily make it so.
“We really need better technologies” Hear! Hear!
Squirrel.
Politicians don’t ponder and never feel discomfort until they are no longer politicians.
Well, the NH summer… but it does, on average, bias global temperatures upwards.
Don’t forget former hate radio personality and current US senator Al Franken. Democrats like hate radio personalities so much that they vote them into office.
And for the record, Franken one of my senators. I believe he is a good person, his heart is in the right place, he works very hard for his constituents, and he has absolutely no idea the economy works.
> Passing a law that requires someone else invent a solution to a problem won’t necessarily make it so.
We can even generalize this to passing a law that does X won’t necessarily make Y so. This criteria is so strong as to prevent the establishment of any law whatsoever. Yet that does not preclude from regulations to induce solutions, e.g.:
Suddenly, solar power isn’t this weird fringe technology anymore. People get it not to save the planet, but because it’s a good deal.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/04/10/398811199/episode-616-how-solar-got-cheap
Regulations that make people venture into a business that has now become a good deal. All this while reducing CO2 emissions, a mere afterthought. Fancy that.
Thanks for the detail. The psychologists also are aware of people who repeatedly ignore all of the measurements in order to hold to an alternate view of the world. When shown measurements of oceans warming, ignore. When asked for documentations to support Dr. Tsonis’ claim – revert to a cascade of Michal Mann fixation. Carry on.
Dr. Curry is at the forefront of movement to push the reset-button on a policy course that was based on 1990’s Hansen style warming trajectory. Megolithic establishments were created. But they can be transformed but by a handful of good honest people. Let’s call that leadership.
> Robert, you offer nothing about Levin’s radio program that illustrates how it represents hate.
What about this, John:
http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/09/19/mark-levin-theres-more-enslaving-of-women-rapin/200819
?
Perhaps this:
http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/02/18/mark-levin-compares-marriage-equality-to-incest/198091
?
