Comment on Week in review 5/4/12 by Jim D
sunshine, a distinct possibility is that warming while cloud cover decreases kills the idea of a negative cloud feedback, and is also consistent with the continents warming fastest (e.g. see BEST). As...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by R. Gates
My opinion is that those who would propose that the logarithmic curve of CO2 in any way suggests no additional warming if pre-industrial levels simply don’t know very much about radiative transfer and...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by gbaikie
“I am absolutely dismayed. This kind of fallacious, juvenile and inflammatory rhetoric does nothing to enhance your reputation, hands your opponents a huge stick to beat you with, and sullies the...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by sunshinehours1
It isn’t warming. It isn’t warmer than the 1942/44 peak on land or in the oceans. UHI and the dying and lowering of the thermometers accounts for microscopic differences.
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by sunshinehours1
1) They are cooling 2) Mash it all up and hope you can con people. 3) It isn’t warming. Its cooler on land and in the oceans than the 44 peak. 4) UHI is huge. 5) Elevation of stations has dropped
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by R. Gates
Tony, I think you are in serious error in writing off the ocean data so clearly. Yes, it has been less robust than we’d like, and it’s a “travesty” we don’t have been data to deeper levels, but overall...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by Jim D
The 30-year average is still going up with every “flat” year. I define that as climatic warming. It hasn’t stopped as you can clearly see if you use a 30-year running mean on any temperature series.
View ArticleComment on Energy supplies and climate policy by kakatoa
Matt- I 100% agree with you as to time of day metering. All of PG&E’s commercial customers are,or are soon to be, on this type of metering. Unfortunately, a few advocacy groups don’t like the...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by jim2
Speaking of trends, the trend for global temperature is 1.3 C/century. It will be interesting to see what the next 10-20 years reveals....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by ozzieostrich
Michael, I assume you are a Warmist by your masterful use of language, and your blinding grasp of the logical thought process. At least a head on a stick can never be accused of handwaving, as opposed...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by Beth Cooper
Tony @7/5 4.12am: re ‘I said it first.’ Since you are now likely to go into the climate record books or Guinness Book of Records Tony, perhaps you should contribute tomorrow’s Thought for today.’ )
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by Mydogsgotnonose
I trained as a process metallurgist and developed the subject of non contact pyrometry, including making two colour devices. The experimental fact is that for a flat plate, emissivity ~0.9, with...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by Don Aitkin
It’s not entirely clear what data you are referring to here. I don’t think that you can, with any assurance, ‘splice’ Argo data onto earlier bucket-and-intake data from a much smaller ocean area. If...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by Michael
ozzie, Robert offered you the simplified, but correct, version of the basic physics. So far your response has been bile and invective. You seem to reject any notion of the effect of GHGs? Have I got...
View ArticleComment on Climate change and moral judgement by Greybeard
The approach of taxing the use of natural resources is indeed a Georgist one. He formulated it thinking mainly of land, but its use for use of the atmosphere – as with a Carbon tax (Australia, British...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by Michael
We have many decades of satellite data and the surface instrumental record is good going back way further. How much data do you think is needed?
View ArticleComment on Climate change and moral judgement by Greybeard
Georgist Land/Carbon taxes. Actually, looking over the earlier posts, I think I can see the half-a-point Bart R is grasping for. IF land/carbon use is taxed, and the proceeds equally distributed...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by steven
Rather difficult to “define what has been warming” since they simply refuse to release the ARGO and satellite data from 1600 on. Using reconstructions can certainly tell us how much ECR there should be...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by climatereason
Beth Glad to oblige, but be warned, I have hundreds of climate related quotes; ‘Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 5/4/12 by climatereason
Beth I wish I could claim omnipotence, but the fact that we don’t know nearly as much as we think we do should be obvious to all, and those things we think we do know are open to serious question-ocean...
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