Comment on Arctic Update II by Louise
No. It is actually lighter than air. You can work this out from the fact that a gas’s density is proportional to its formula mass. If we take the atomic masses of Carbon (C) as 12, Hydrogen (H) as 1,...
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“My main question is why adaptation should be attempted and funded only for AGW, and not to address risks associated with the current climate and natural climate variability? ” Where I live (UK) there...
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Web hub says (4.42): “Last time I checked, orbital changes don’t create a feedback loop, and neither does angle of incidence. Those are known perturbations, with an easily estimated forcing function.”...
View ArticleComment on A better climate for disaster risk management by Anteros
Louise - Isn’t the point that those types of things continue to be sensible, whereas scrabbling around for something to adapt to on the basis of a model projection lacks the same common sense? My...
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The dust layer covering the moon’s surface (the regolith) is the result of meteorite impacts over the whole history of the satellite. The regolith material is a mix of (a) original moon rock fragmented...
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Use Google Scholar to search for Roe 2006 “in defense of Milankovitch”. The correlations work better for rate of change of volume. It should gibe you a PDF.
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“And there IS a decent coating of dust on the moon, though not waist deep. But the depth of that dust should be IMHO an indicator of how much dust has arrived on Earth, too. That said, I’d like to know...
View ArticleComment on Arctic Update II by manacker
bob droege This exchange is beginning to become a bit repetitive. Rather than refuting ANY of the “what we know” points I made at the start of this discussion, you now bring up hypotheses of what might...
View ArticleComment on A better climate for disaster risk management by Paul S
My main question is why adaptation should be attempted and funded only for AGW, and not to address risks associated with the current climate and natural climate variability? I would guess for reasons...
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tempterrain Pardon me for interjecting myself into an exchange you were hoping to start with our host, but this phrase you wrote caught my eye: However, the change which is looming now,...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by WebHubTelescope
Photovoltaics are quantum mechanics in action. Extracting energy from entropic sources is applied statistical mechanics, aka stochastic mechanics. That’s a start for mitigating a reliance on fossil...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by michel
There is very little in this paper. The base idea is a very simple one: you cannot predict how societies will react to particular changes, even if you are able to predict the changes themselves. Yes,...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by Tortoise1956
Robert, I went to what I assume is your blog, and found the following article: “Semiletov v Dmitrenko: The tale of the tape” If this is indeed your work, I am very disappointed. Basically, the writer...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by Anteros
gbaikie - I think you’re right – people are interested in the future, and will create simplistic one-dimensional visions. I don’t agree that we are ‘throwing up our hands’ when we cast doubt on these...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by Tortoise1956
Sorry, but I have to side with WebHubTelescope on this one. Mitigation does NOT require governmental intervention. It could be something as simple as individuals acting to reduce their energy...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by tetris
Robert The language is a mouthful, no doubt, but the core arguments hold. You have got to be joking when you suggest that there is “no factual case against climate science in general or climate...
View ArticleComment on Science communication by Vaughan Pratt
(Moved this part of the thread to the bottom to un-nest it.) @David Young in climate science the data is so noisy and the effects are so small, that statistics becomes much more important than in other...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by WebHubTelescope
Not Chrichton again. Predictions were made that coal-burning would foul urban atmospheres early on. Once the problem occurred in places like London, only then did the reactive mitigation steps take...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by ferd berple
One of my first computer science projects was to model the population of caribou and wolves, based on the observed behavior and probabilities of prey and predator. Sometimes when a wolf chases a...
View ArticleComment on Science communication by Vaughan Pratt
WordPress's inability/reluctance to indent further was becoming a bit of a drag, so I replied <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2011/12/09/science-communication/#comment-153233"...
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