Decline in solar output unlikely to offset global warming: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has found that solar output is likely to reduce over the next 90 years but that will not substantially delay expected increases in global temperatures caused by greenhouse gases.
Carried out by the University of Reading and the Met Office, the study establishes the most likely changes in the Sun's activity and looks at how this could affect near-surface temperatures on Earth.
It found that the most likely outcome was that the Sun's output would decrease up to 2100, but this would only cause a reduction in global temperatures of 0.08 °C. This compares to an expected warming of about 2.5 °C over the same period due to greenhouse gases (according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's B2 scenario for greenhouse gas emissions that does not involve efforts to mitigate emissions).
Gareth Jones, a climate change detection scientist with the Met Office, said: "This research shows that the most likely change in the Sun's output will not have a big impact on global temperatures or do much to slow the warming we expect from greenhouse gases.
"It's important to note this study is based on a single climate model, rather than multiple models which would capture more of the uncertainties in the climate system."
The study also showed that if solar output reduced below that seen in the Maunder Minimum - a period between 1645 and 1715 when solar activity was at its lowest observed level - the global temperature reduction would be 0.13C.
During the 20th Century solar activity increased to a ‘grand maximum' and recent studies have suggested this level of activity is at or nearing its end.
Professor Mike Lockwood, an expert in solar studies at the University of Reading, used this as a starting point for looking at the most probable changes in the Sun's activity over the 21st Century.
Met Office scientists then placed the projections into one climate model to see how they may impact temperatures.
Professor Lockwood said: "The 11-year solar cycle of waxing and waning sunspot numbers is perhaps the best known way the Sun changes, but longer term changes in its brightness are more important for possible influences on climate.
"The most likely scenario is that we'll see an overall reduction of the Sun's activity compared to the 20th Century, such that solar outputs drop to the values of the Dalton Minimum (around 1820). The probability of activity dropping as low as the Maunder Minimum - or indeed returning to the high activity of the 20th Century - is about 8%. The findings rely on the assumption that the Sun's past behaviour is a reasonable guide for future solar activity changes."
Peter Stott, who also worked on the research for the Met Office, said: "Our findings suggest that a reduction of solar activity to levels not seen in hundreds of years would be insufficient to offset the dominant influence of greenhouse gases on global temperatures in the 21st century."
More information: The full paper, What influence will future solar activity changes over the 21st century have on projected global near surface temperature changes? (G. S. Jones, M. Lockwood, and P. A. Stott (2012)), is published online in the Journal of Geophysical Research and can be seen here: http://www.agu.org … 017013.shtml
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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Jan 24, 2012
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Is that why global temperatures have been stable for the past 15 or so yrs and more recently slowly falling?
Let's hope that Earth's temperature DOESN'T fall to those experienced in the Dalton and especially Maunder minimum because the economic impact on ALL of us will be devastating, as it was during those periods.
Though Stott et al are believer's that GHG's have some "dominant effect" on earth's temperature (what else, they work for the Met Office) that evidence is weak and of poor quality and is getting weaker with nearly every new study (not model, study).
Anyway, Warmer is Better!
Jan 24, 2012
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http://www.ncdc.n.../2011/13 Is one place you can look at rising temperature trends. You can look at http://en.wikiped...e_record for many other references. I suppose you could just read the wikipedia page, but colleges don't allow references of references. In this case, however, there's a distinct lack of space for all the available references.
You might want to provide some information rather than essentially just saying 'no, this is wrong'.
Jan 24, 2012
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Link between weak solar activity and cold winters in west Europe has been indicated in different scientific papers. Low solar activity seems to influence the jet stream and leads towards higher blocking occurrences.
Jan 24, 2012
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Where is that damn site?
Jan 24, 2012
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After the solar max its most likely that solar output will drop significatly.
Jan 24, 2012
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Yeah, because that's totally accurate. /sarcasm
Here's an up-to-date plot of the global temperature data from NASA:
http://data.giss....aphs_v3/Fig.A.gif]http://data.giss....ig.A.gif[/url]
It astounds me how people can continue to be so ignorant when the data is literally at their fingertips.
For more global temp data of all kinds, go here:
http://data.giss....aphs_v3/
Jan 24, 2012
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That's correct. We are almost at the peak of a max, but it's one of the weakest and shortest peaks we have seen in recorded history.
One interesting point about the index we use to measure solar activity is that we use sun spots as an indicator. When sun spots go all the way down to zero, we have no way to know if the sun continues to go down lower, or how far down it goes. All we can see is that it gets down to the point where there's no sun spots, then we lose that indicator. There are a couple other things they look at besides sun spots, but losing one of the few visible indicators makes things tricky for space weather experts.
If decreased solar activity won't slow global warming, and the Earth doesn't warm as much as expected in the next few decades, then what? Question only.
Jan 24, 2012
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The GISS graphs you linked to (first link broken) do show a flat trend for the past 10-15 years. Some records, such as the UAH satellite record show a longer flat trend. GISS is mostly a land record though, so it's expected that it will look different than a satellite record.
However, the trend over the past 10-15 years doesn't really mean anything. Anything less than 30 years is just noise. You have to look at at least 30 years, and there's certainly been an increase in temp over the past 30 years, no matter who's data you use.
Jan 24, 2012
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Jan 24, 2012
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http://www.woodfo...et:-.232
Jan 24, 2012
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http://papers.ssr...=1871503
Jan 25, 2012
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Partially because I have intimate knowledge of computers and software and have directly observed what basic assumptions can do to throw off the best thought out programs. And that whenever I drill down into how specific models are constructed, they make some pretty huge assumptions. Ask one of these modelers what their volumetric granularity is, or how earths magnetic fields and high atmosphere charged particles should be modeled, or what estimates their using for convective mixing and moisture conveyance and temperature-pressure gradients for cloud formation they use, and you will start a more philosophical conversation than a scientific one.
Jan 25, 2012
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Jan 25, 2012
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1998 is the hottest year on record, 9 of the other top 10 since records have been kept happened after it so if the graph flattens out at or near the peak, logic doesn't dictate a "cooling" trend. As Gswift noted, any period shorter than 30 years is noise. THis is the data for the last 150 years.
http://www.ncdc.n...tal.html
Prior to the industrial age, CO2 PPM rose post warming, the present rise coincides with the warming so even if the warming is natural, our activities have both amplified it and extended it's duration. Note this warming has occurred without a signal from any feedbacks, which appear to have been initiated evidenced by thawing permafrost and the dissappearing polar ice cap.
Jan 25, 2012
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Every other survey done in the past showed that education has little to do with how people feel about the environment or conservation. The main factor has always been shown to be political and social preference, and most issues are split just about dead down the middle, 50/50.
My usual word of caution in relation to surveys though: Be very carefull what you are reading and examine the methods with a microscope, then compare that to what their finding were. In polls and surveys, the slightest change in method can cause huge changes in the result, and conversely, two different studies showing the same result can have very different meanings if the methods were different. Who, what, when, where and how all matter.
Jan 25, 2012
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"Global warming" can't be stopped because stupidity is an incurable epidemic. Even in an ice age, our governments would find a way to make it seem hot.
Jan 25, 2012
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In nuclear physics, we call 'positive feedback' a 'chain reaction', and it doesn't take long, nor can it be reversed.
Jan 25, 2012
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I have great confidence in the computer models on AGW and not a single parameter change creates a rosy picture you loonies all seem to think is the future. There are no AGW skeptics with any credibility if the field.
Jan 25, 2012
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Global warming isn't perpetual. When the next ice age occurs (in however many thousand years it takes) the governments of that time (assuming humans are still around) are going to look back specifically at the current time period and curse us all for being idiots for (a) realizing the effect we are having on the environment and being as slow to react to stopping it as we are, (b) for not thinking far enough long term to actually realize that at some point in the future these fossil fuels could be used in order to help prevent the onset of the ice age they are enduring.
Jan 25, 2012
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wow. You probably know that average people don't talk like that. The majority of people in the world don't have such strong emotional attatchment to any social/political issue, and for most of us it is an automatic turn-off when we hear an extremist spew propaganda. People just don't want to hear that. Even when you are right, you make yourself sound less than fully credible with that kind of emotional outburst.
Jan 25, 2012
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So how many never ending chain reactions have we initiated here on our warm little world?
Jan 25, 2012
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http://www.real-s...ent-cold
Jan 25, 2012
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There may also be tipping points (e.g., release of methane from permafrost or clathrates) that do go over unity until trapped methane used up (see PETM).
And yes, some of these feedback loops can go over unity for quite a while - just look at Venus for an example, where it went over unity until the readily releasable carbon was almost all in the atmosphere.
Jan 26, 2012
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being 1) man made and 2) very severe 3) preventable with re-education of the right-wing-nuts!
And Mr. not-RealScience, you are being overly calm about the tipping points. When the polar ice caps melt, (and they will with in 15-20 years) a H-U-G-E feed-back will come into play.
Namely the lack of polar albedo (or lack of surface reflectivity). Methane then goes through the roof then.
Will we are not going to wind up like Venus, we could easily kill the world as we know it, from man made stupidity. The damage done will be more severe than a Yucatan scale comet strike.
All and all watching you AGW skeptics is like rabbits in a head light.
Jan 26, 2012
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Let me quote Rubberman:There are no temperature graph references to global cooling. But I haven't checked the website that shows the references for advancing glaciers and the increase in arctic sea ice cover, so the graphs are probably there, right next to the ones showing the southerly advancing permafrost line. Where is that damn site?
Yeah! Rubberman. Show us something that hasn't been discredited as total and pure crap or fake.
Jan 26, 2012
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http://www.woodfo...et:-.232
Jan 26, 2012
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Wow how did i guess some Tea Party cultist would try that old argument?
Answer cultists tend to believe whatever Fox news 'reports', and/or worship at the altar of Sarah Pain in the ass! And have to cherry pick information to make it seem the world is flat.
Jan 26, 2012
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This would almost be a good point if 2010 wasn't the second warmest year in the last 150. This site shows each years temp. as a point on the graph for the last 150.
http://www2.ucar....mate/faq
The plateau between 1998 and 2010 is still higher than the rest and therefore cannot be classified as a cooling trend, it would be a stabilization at a new level....for now.
http://www.skepti...ming.htm
The above shows solar activity vs. temperature. Until the 60's the lines are fairly close. For the last 40 years the lines deviate as the temperature continues to rise independant of solar activity with the arctic increase tripling that of the rest of the world.
Jan 26, 2012
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How bad could it get? There is at least an order of magnitude more methane locked up in clathrates than all the fossil fuels that we have burned, and methane is a far more potent green-house gas than CO2.
Still, even releasing this would not be as bad as the Yucatan impact. We have a good idea of what the result would be - it would look like the PETM. In the PETM the planet warmed between 5C and 10C, with the arctic warming 15C-20C. Current sea levels would rise ~100 meters.
That's more of a temperature change than an ice age, but it did not wipe out as much life as the Yucatan impact and the Deccan traps.
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Jan 26, 2012
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I also have to say that this is the most rudimentary temperature graph I have ever seen....seriously, a line drawn with a ruler between 3 points...given the nature of the site I bet the ruler is made of wood though....
Jan 26, 2012
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I am confident that with the rate of progress in climate modelling and computing power, we will soon have a pretty good understanding of the impact of CO2 and other GHGs, of ocean currents, of the sun, and other factor, and will be able to make pretty accurate predictions and run what-if scenarios.
And I am confident that big energy companies will figure out how to make big money from renewable energy, and that once when they do renewable energy will grow very rapidly. In fact it is already growing fast enough - if solar continues its growth rate for 40 years, it will deliver several times the energy that humanity uses today.
Science is very good at solving crises, so once it becomes a crisis we will figure out how to react fast.
And what if we are currently preventing an ice age? (remember, a single ice age can ruin your whole day).
We need to earth's understand climate, and to then control what we release into the atmosphere accordingly.
Jan 26, 2012
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Jan 26, 2012
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http://thegwpf.or...-10.html
Brrrr.
Jan 26, 2012
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In the mean time calling for 're-educating' skeptics as HH did turns a lot of people off, and does far more harm than good.
Jan 27, 2012
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Assuming that there is a perfect set of data uncontaminated by the urban heat island effect (not a chance) that means it is warming at a miniscule rate of .026C per decade.
http://www.real-s...s-warmer
CO2 supposedly causes warming of .2C per decade.
Ha ha ha ha.
Jan 27, 2012
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Furthermore it is a line drawn with a ruler between only TWO points.
And if the 12th warmest year on record is 2011 and the years that beat it are all in the last 15 year, that sounds like a warm last 15 years to me.
A single year is not evidence of a trend for EITHER cooling or warming. Even a decade is a pretty short time...
Jan 27, 2012
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That is how I see the Global warming deniers that post on Physorg all the time. They are the teenager too naive to grasp just how dangerous AGW could be for mankind extending out 100-200 years.
I don't think that our advanced lifestyles will take the disruption that is sure to occur when the big swings in weather patterns takes hold. I'm not as optimistic as RealS is about big energy coming to the rescue. The way I see it, there will be a huge massive shift to a (near) all-electric society as peak oil comes in full to play. But that means using more cheap and abundant coal (and lack of wisdom to solve a longer term problems of AGW/CO2).
So if you don't understand my reactionary taunts, just know its with good intentions.
PS: the UN joke was tongue-in-cheek
Jan 28, 2012
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http://www.ncdc.n.../na.html
Pick Annual, Table, Rank
1934 is the 3rd warmest year in US history and the warmest is only .25F warmer. 1931 was 10th warmest.
1934 was warmer than every year this century except for 2006.
1921 was warmer than every year this century except for 2006. 1934,1931,1930 and 1938 were warmer than 2011.
1934,1931,1930, 1938 and 1933 were warmer than 2010.
The last four years (2011,2010,2009 and 2008) didn't even make the top 17 years.
Jan 28, 2012
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The real danger is the ice age that will end this interglacial. If AGW were real, instead of just a tiny bit of warming that has almost got us back to pre-LIA temperatures, it might help stave off the ice age.
But it won't. Billions will die.
The world can handle being the same temperature as the 1930s.
It can't handle the massive drop in temperature due this century.
http://joannenova...9c-fall/
Jan 29, 2012
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That really says it all right there. An admission of uncertainties coupled with best guesses on what the model variables have not covered equals junk science and opinions.
Jan 29, 2012
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Thanks for the clarification - an emoticon would have made it clear to start with.
Your story of poking the bear is a good one - it should be in the Darwin awards.
The feedback that worries me is the methane, both in permafrost and on the sea bed. The other feedbacks are either not plausible at this time (Venus-style dissociation of carbonates), or are self limiting (decrease in albedo from melting ice stops when the ice is gone).
The methane is a time bomb that nature has accumulated. We are currently playing with fire near the fuse.
However that much natural gas is potentially a huge resource worth many trillion of dollars. The energy companies could make a few trillion dollars by defuse a millions-of-years-old time bomb while supplying us with cleaner energy (enough energy that we could afford some of it to sequester the CO2).
As other fossil fuels get scarce, big energy SHOULD go after this huge resource.
Jan 29, 2012
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Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)
Met Office releases new figures which show no warming in 15 years
By David Rose
Last updated at 5:38 AM on 29th January 2012
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The supposed consensus on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research U
Jan 29, 2012
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How do you accurately model an emergent system that effectively has an infinite number of components to model?
Jan 29, 2012
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Including skeptical climate scientists with years of experience and publications?
But this is a typical socialist response when they loose their argument.
Jan 29, 2012
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There is a problem with the article Hopper sites. The earth isn't getting cooler. Explain, why the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps, Greenland and just about every glacier field across the world are melting. Explain why the Ocean's PH is dropping and becoming more acidic. Explain the additional water vapor in the atmosphere. Explain the shift of the jet stream further north. Explain the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere or methane.
You can't. The only explanation that answers all of these observations is that extremely excessive CO2 emissions from humans global energy creation (coal fire electric, oil for gasoline, and natural gas for heat) has created a giant green house window over Earths atmosphere.
Jan 30, 2012
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Jan 30, 2012
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Realscience: Sorry about the confusion on the re-education camps. They are not meant for liberal, AGW alarmist, green heads climatologists like you and me. They will just give us gardening literature with a free recycle bucket instead! ;-)
Jan 30, 2012
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You don't.
WEATHER is an emergent system where the number of significant variables grows very rapidly with the timescale of the forecast.
CLIMATE is also hugely complex, but longer timescales add only modest numbers of significant factors (longer-term feedback effects).
For example, all our computing/modelling power cannot tell me whether July 4th this year will be sunny or rainy where I live - that's weather, dominated by chaos. But unless we have a huge volcano or asteroid strike, everywhere within a thousand miles every day in July will be warmer than any day in January - that's climate, dominated by a few factors.
Getting PRECISE and LOCAL climate predictions would greatly increase the number of significant factors, but for AGW we just need to know the direction and MAGNITUDE of the natural changes and of GHG impact.
Jan 30, 2012
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Jan 30, 2012
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Unless we would otherwise be entering an ice age (which you might have noticed I consider possible), the problem is GHGs in general. That includes water vapor (the dominant greenhouse gas) as well as CO2 and methane. Talking about one GHG doesn't mean that other GHGs are not important, and you KNOW that.
Have you read up on the PETM? Have you read up on how much methane trapped in clathrates and below the permafrost? Have you read about the relative warming effects of methane and of CO2?
CO2 traps heat. Heat evaporates water, which traps more heat. Heat melts ice to water, absorbing more heat. Heat also speeds up decay, releasing CO2, which traps more heat. These amplify the effect of the original CO2 by an amount between 1x and 4x (best estimate ~2.5x).
But if heat starts releasing methane, that amplification could get MUCH higher.
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Jan 30, 2012
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We need to be able to EITHER cut back our GHG (and soot) emissions to control warming, or to increase emissions to prevent an ice age (right now the best estimates are that we need to cut back, and fairly rapidly). And we need to KNOW what the sun and our orbit would do and how much GHGs would prevent something catastrophic.
We couldn't yet do much to counteract major volcanic activity, but we are now powerful enough to smooth out the effects of the earth's orbit and what we have seen of the sun's variability (as for humanity not being able to affect the atmosphere and the climate, that's BULL).
Jan 30, 2012
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Another raving anti-warming ignoramus trying to believe his crap that it stopped warming in 1998. Thats about as crazy as little green men on Mars. Complete pathological skepticism and self-delusional as well.
Jan 30, 2012
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http://www.woodfo...fset:-.3
HADCRUT - slopes down after 1998
http://www.woodfo...77/trend
Jan 30, 2012
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CO2 rose 100ppm after temperature rose 10C. And then it cooled for a while and then got cold for another 100,000 years until our interglacial - the Holocene.
http://www.ferdin...ian.html
Our interglacial will end. CO2 will do nothing to top the coming ice age.
CO2 is a response to warming because warm water holds less CO2.
Jan 31, 2012
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CO2 thus both follows and causes temperature increases, which is why CO2 following temperature does NOT show that CO2 doesn't cause warming. Surely you are smart enough to understand that.
And since YOU say that climate can't be modeled accurately, how can YOU say that CO2 didn't trap heat in the last interglacial? Don't you mean that Eemian CO2 didn't trap ENOUGH heat to prevent the subsequent ice age?
Jan 31, 2012
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No, it does not.
How much heat is 'trapped' over a dry desert at night? Not much.
Jan 31, 2012
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Water vapor is the dominant green house gas, so in a dry desert there is much less heat trapping. But CO2 still traps about 1.6 Watts per square meter on the average..
That's not a huge amount - a black body at 0C/32F radiates 315 W/m2, and the average land on earth a good fraction of that, so it's a bit under 1% of the radiation sent out that CO2 DIRECTLY traps.
So your 'No it does not' is wrong, but your 'not much' is correct.
However the impact over non-desert is much larger because the bit of warming from that trapping lets the air hold more moisture, and water vapor is a stronger GHG than CO2.
HOW much larger is not known, but best estimates are ~2.5x
Jan 31, 2012
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At what wavelengths?
Jan 31, 2012
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Jan 31, 2012
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Well done repudiation Real.
Feb 01, 2012
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The estimates are currently good enough to warrant the precautionary principle: RECENT TRENDS ARE WARMING, SO MINIMIZE OUR WARMING IMPACT UNTIL WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING.
But there is a lot of work to do to understand whether we still need some warming to prevent an ice-age or whether we now need some cooling to prevent runaway warming.
Where NP really screws up is that he doesn't even want more research because he thinks that modelling is futile and that we are doomed by an ice-age anyway.
As for R2, I agree with him that IF (a big if) we had a level playing field and the IF impacts were known, private enterprise would fix the problem faster than government.
But R2 shouldn't ignore the KNOWN parts of the science.
Feb 01, 2012
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Albedo changes are a lot larger.
"The annual average albedo declined very gradually from 1985 to 1995, and then declined sharply in 1995 and 1996. These observed declines are broadly consistent with previously known satellite measures of cloud amount.
The low albedo during 1997-2001 increased solar heating of the globe at a rate more than twice that expected from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This dimming of Earth, as it would be seen from space, is perhaps connected with the recent accelerated increase in mean global surface temperatures."
http://wattsupwit...g-story/
Feb 01, 2012
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I don't agree with what you claim to be the 'known' parts of 'science'.
Feb 01, 2012
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And allows heat to radiate at other windows.
Feb 01, 2012
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So what? That has no effect on that which is captured.
A photon of a given wavelength cannot arbitrarily change that so as to escape.
Feb 01, 2012
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How many photons/sec are being radiated by a gray body at 300K? Are all captured by those few CO2 molecules?
If more CO2 is in the atm, how many more photons are absorbed and re-radiated and does it matter much?
Feb 01, 2012
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The 15um-ish photons are almost all outward bound, because the peak of the spectrum of the earth at ~300K is near 15um.
In the simplest case, after a typically-outward-bound 15um-ish photon is absorbed by a CO2 molecule, the molecule re-radiates a 15um-ish photon in a random direction. If that new photon happens to be outward-bound, then no the CO2 had no impact. But half of the re-radiated photons will be inward-bound, and will carry that energy back to the earth (anything horizontal gets reabsorbed and re-radiated until it is either outward-bound or inward-bound.
It's more complex because the CO2 is not all in one layer, some photons get through, and not all re-radiated photons are at the same wavelength, but the basic principle holds that the more CO2 there is, the more 15um-ish photons are bounced back toward earth, leading to net warming. It's actually easy enough to model that it was worked out by hand before computers.
Feb 01, 2012
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Photonic energy is quantized. An absorbing body can neither absorb nor re-radiate a photon of an arbitrary wavelength.
Spontaneous re-radiation is omnidirectional, so that half, ignoring Earth's curvature and the altitude at which such occurs, of all IR absorbed by atmospheric compounds is directed Earthward.
Feb 01, 2012
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The direct effects matter a bit, but not a huge amount because CO2 is not that great an IR absorber, and outside of a narrow window H2O would have absorbed most of the photons anyway.
The danger is the INDIRECT effects - the warmer air holds more H2O, which is a stronger GHG than CO2. Warmer air also melts more snow and ice, lowering the planet's albedo.
And some feedbacks are more copmplex - warmth also encourages plant growth, which warms the earth by lowering its albedo but also absorbs CO2, and the extra H2O creates more clouds which raise the albedo during the day but trap heat at night.
And the dangerous one is methane, which is a much more potent GHG than CO2 and is often trapped by cold temperatures (permafrost and clathrates), and MIGHT lead to runaway warming up to 5C-10C.
While the direct effects are known, the indirect effects are merely estimates with a high degree of uncertainty.
Feb 01, 2012
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But if the temperature rises, the peak BB curve shifts to the left and the actual number of 15um photons bouncing about won't change much.
I notice most of the 'evidence' is quite empirical with little or no lab data. Something which should be quite easy to measure.
Bottom line is that CO2 is easy to measure in the atm as it is well mixed so, viola, the computer models are 'adjusted' to tag CO2 as the culprit because it is too difficult to measure water vapor and on orbit radiometers are still quite crude. The are crude since both NPL and NASA want to orbit radiometers that are NIST traceable. Current systems are not.
Feb 01, 2012
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You do understand that photons can be absorbed at one wavelength and that energy can be emitted at another depending upon the atomic or molecular state. HeNe lasers are pumped with shorter wavelength light to emit the longer wavelength red beam.
Feb 01, 2012
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Feb 01, 2012
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Actually I wouldn't call 390ppm a "FEW PPM OF CO2". I believe Hansen has it calculated to 340ppm (fact check) as the break-even point. However based on current exponential growth patterns, we could easily be 1000ppm in 20years or less.
Feb 01, 2012
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You continue to ignore the facts that individual contributions of any and all compounds which absorb CO2 are cumulative, and that any increase in radiative forcing results in several positive feedback loops, primarily through decreased albedo and increased atmospheric H2O saturation levels.
Feb 01, 2012
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What is the mean free path of a 15 um photon through the atm? What is the cross sectional area of a CO2 molecule? CO2 doesn't just suck in a photon like a vacuum cleaner.
Feb 01, 2012
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http://www.nasa.g...ing.html
Now, you just need to recognize where the water vapor comes from and why!
Feb 01, 2012
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http://answers.ya...4AAAeign
Feb 02, 2012
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Accurate data has been kept since 1959, and CO2 has gone up by 76 ppm since then. 1 ATM = 14 PSI = ~1 ton per square foot, 76 ppm is 76 * 2000 / 1,000,000 psf = 0.152, or 2.4 oz per square foot, or 21 ounces per square yard.
Extra heavy denim (blue-jean jacket) material is typically only 16 oz per square yard.
So by WEIGHT we have added enough CO2 to cover the entire planet with a jacket, just since 1959.
Clearly that much material COULD trap a lot of heat, but CO2 really isn't that strong a GHG. So the DIRECT effect of the CO2 alone is a bit less than 1K.
The indirect effects are much less certain, and are mostly done by curve fitting, with the best fit totaling a 2.5x amplification of the direct effects.
And we are putting out CO2 faster and faster these days.
Feb 02, 2012
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Not only does it not have to, but it's got plenty of helpers.
THEY ALL ADD UP. :rolleyes:
And, the problem isn't that it absorbs IR photons, but that it back-scatters them by RE-EMITTING them. Otherwise, it would reduce radiative forcing!
Feb 04, 2012
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Feb 04, 2012
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That data should roll off the tongues of CO2 AGWites.
How many molecules of CO2 are in 350 ppm? That, too should be readily available for those who want to prove the evils of CO2.
Feb 04, 2012
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One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small.
But the ones that Kochevnik's pushing don't do anything at all.
Feb 04, 2012
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What are the IR absorption bands for water vapor. More and wider than for CO2.
Of course it is water vapor that keeps heat from escaping into space at night. Cold dry air can allow the temperature to drop over 30 deg F at night.
I don't notice much heat being retained in the dry desert at night from CO2. Should be real easy to measure to prove your fantasies.
Feb 04, 2012
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"What is the mean free path of a 15 um photon through the atm? What is the cross sectional area of a CO2 molecule?" - RyggTard
What you really want to know is the extinction coefficient so that you can employ Beer's law, rather than trying to develop beer's law from inappropriate concepts like radiative mean free paths and interaction cross sections.
Here is what you weren't smart enough to ask for.
Atmospheric transmittance measurements of CO2 and near IR laser radiation over 8.6 km
http://adsabs.har...88..670W
Feb 04, 2012
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"This new data set shows that as surface temperature increases, so does atmospheric humidity, "
Who would have thought that heat was the cause for high humidity in the tropics? Those NASA guys are really smart?
"Water vapor is the big player in the atmosphere as far as climate is concerned." NO...., how can this be?
Maybe these guys should go outside once in a while. They should visit Bahrain or Jeddah in the summer. 120+F with 100% humidity. And that is a LOT of water. The capacity of the atm to hold water is not linear with temperature.
An increase from 30-40C increases water vapor pressure from 32 to over 50 mmHg. From 15 to 30 C, the change is 13 to 32 mm Hg. Not well mixed. Not easy to model so abstract it away.
Feb 04, 2012
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I notice that the temperature of the desert sand doesn't drop to -270'C overnight.
What you fail to notice is only of consequence to your psychologist.
Feb 04, 2012
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Nothing here about 15 micron photons. Only 1-10 microns. CO2 absorbs quite well ~4.2 um. A black body with a peak of 4.2 microns has a temperature of a jet engine. Which is one reason why IR missiles for aircraft operate in the 3-5 um band.
Feb 04, 2012
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Why are you suggesting that linearity is the assumption?
Idiot.
Feb 04, 2012
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"Nothing here about 15 micron photons. Only 1-10 microns." - RyggTard
Feb 05, 2012
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70 years = Climate trend
"Over the past decade, US winter temperatures have been dropping at a rate of more than 40 degrees per century."" - ParkerTard
10 years = Cherry Picked Nonsense.
Feb 05, 2012
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@r2 - a few seconds with Google would find you the absorption spectrum of CO2. Here is a nice, simple image for you. As you can see, the ~13um-~15um absorption band is broader than the 4.2um one that you call 'absorbing quite well':
http://www.bom.go.../4.shtml
Note that the ~13-~15um CO2 peak corresponds to a window in H2O's absorption which is near the peak of 255K thermal emissions.
Also your point about how much heat H2O vapor traps and how much more H2O warm air holds is exactly one of the indirect feedbacks amplifying CO2's modest direct warming potential.
You have just highlighted that the DIRECT warming from CO2 allows the air to hold additional H2O which adds INDIRECT warming.
Feb 05, 2012
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1 ATM is ~100,000 N/m2 = ~10 N/cm2 = ~1 kg/cm2 = ~1000 grams/cm2.
~1000 grams of air (N2 with some O2) is ~1000g/cm2 / 29g/mole = ~34 moles/cm2 = ~34 x 6E23 = ~2E25 molecules per cm2.
The 108 ppm increase in CO2 is measured in molecules (not by weight), so each ppm is ~2x10^19 molecules/cm2 and 108 ppm is ~2x10^21 molecules per cm2.
So to answer your question, humans have ADDED roughly 2E21 (2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) molecules of CO2 per cm2 to the atmosphere.
And yes, 2e21 molecules could easily trap 10e17 photons per second...
Do you now admit that doing the math that YOU asked for SUPPORTS rather than REFUTES that CO2 could have the impact ascribed to it?
Since YOU are challenging the math of people who spend their lives in this field, YOU should be doing the math to see whether they are wrong rather than ME doing YOUR math for you.
Feb 05, 2012
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He would not even were he able.
He's just playing the same game that a child does by asking an endless series of "Why?" questions so as to delay bed time.
Feb 05, 2012
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How much space is between molecules?
The real key is mean free path probability of capture.
Photons are very small as are CO2 molecules.
But even if ALL 15 microns photon are captured within a few meters, how will adding more CO2 change the 100% capture rate?
Feb 05, 2012
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Because a finite number of molecules can only absorb a finite number of photons, all of which are re-emitted.
Feb 05, 2012
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And neither have a well defined size, which is why your Tard Boy non-science has no place in the real world.
"But even if ALL 15 microns photon are captured within a few meters, how will adding more CO2 change the 100% capture rate?" - RyggTard
If you weren't a complete idiot you would realize that thermal capture corresponds to an increase in the temperature of capturing material, which is then the origin of the radiation that will be blocked by the next layer of CO2.
You are so Fuc*ing stupid that you can't even manage to figure out how insulation works, or how radiation is conducted through a dispersive media, yet you are so sure of your ignorance that you know that enhanced CO2 can't be warming the earth.
Libertarian MORON.
Feb 05, 2012
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~3% of that air is CO2 so .03*.007 = .00021 => .021% of a cubic meter of air is occupied by CO2.
The diameter of a molecule of CO2 is on the order of 10-8 cm. Of course photons travel ~3e8 m/s.
But there are only a finite number of 15 um photons to bounce around and some must eventually radiate into space.
Feb 05, 2012
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The more gas molecules in the atmosphere that absorb IR, the fewer IR photons that will escape.
Just what is your fascination with 15 um? Is 15 your age?
Feb 05, 2012
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Actually, since 1986 Winter temperatures have declined in the USA at a rate of -.14F per decade.
25 years of slightly cooling winters.
http://i42.tinypi...vvj8.jpg
116 is the warmest winter. The last 5 haven't even made the top 35.
http://i44.tinypi...pxls.jpg
Feb 05, 2012
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So what?
Is your line of reasoning intended to prove that you are scientifically illiterate?
If so, then you are succeeding.
"Just a rough calculation is that .7% of a cubic meter is physically occupied by air." - RyggTard
"But there are only a finite number of 15 um photons to bounce around" - RyggTard
Wrong again idiot. They are also generated in the thermal radiation of the atmosphere itself.
Go back to grade 7 and learn some science.
Feb 05, 2012
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Since 1981, Winter temperatures in the continental U.S. have increased in the U.S. at a rte of .31'F per decade.
Since 1981, Spring temperatures in the continental U.S. have increased at a rate of 0.2'F per decade.
Since 1981, Summer temperatures in the continental U.S. have increased at a rate of 0.48'F per decade.
Since 1981, Fall temperatures in the continental U.S. have increased at a rate of 0.59'F per decade.
http://climvis.nc...play3.pl
Feb 05, 2012
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Feb 06, 2012
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2011 was the 37th coldest winter out of 116
2010 was the 15th coldest winter out of 116.
2009 was the 77th coldest winter out of 116.
2008 was the 63rd coldest winter out of 116.
2007 was the 81st coldest winter out of 116.
I wonder why Vendicam is yammering about 1981 when the most recent 5 winters were so damn cold.
http://i44.tinypi...pxls.jpg
As for annual temps.
1934 is the 3rd warmest year in US history.
1934 was warmer than every year this century except for 2006.
1934,1931,1930 and 1938 were warmer than 2011.
1934,1931,1930, 1938 and 1933 were warmer than 2010.
The 1930s were a lot warmer than the last 5 years.
Feb 06, 2012
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Did you know 1979 was the coldest winter? You remember the ice age scare climate scientists were trying in the 1970s?
Feb 06, 2012
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Because - Turd for brains - Climate change is defined over periods 30 years long.
You have been repeatedly told this, and you have repeatedly ignored it in order to continue your non stop stream of lies and disinformation.
Feb 06, 2012
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"Did you know 1936 was the warmest summer in US history?" - Parker Tard
Do you ever intend to stop being a low life moron, Parker Tard?
Feb 06, 2012
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And throw away all that he's worked so hard for?
Feb 06, 2012
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My politics?
Had AGWites chosen NOT to dabble in politics and had their data be more substantial, they may have been convincing.
But they chose to create the political UN IPCC and try to use force. And the 'scientists' chose to us media and politicians to intimidate and hinder any real debate.
And Hottie, you are fine example of an AGWite zealot advocating re-education camps for those who don't agree with you.
Feb 06, 2012
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A change of temp from 300 to 301 K increase the 14.9-15.1 radiation by 4e-6 W/cm2.
Why 15 um? Those are the photons absorbed by CO2 are are blamed for increasing temperatures.
Feb 06, 2012
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And yet, it is supposed to be GLOBAL warming. And it is getting really cold in the US.
2011 was the 37th coldest winter out of 116
2010 was the 15th coldest winter out of 116.
2009 was the 77th coldest winter out of 116.
2008 was the 63rd coldest winter out of 116.
2007 was the 81st coldest winter out of 116.
No matter how many childish insults you throw out, the last 5 winters were very, very cold.
Feb 06, 2012
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There hasn't been a 30 year warming period in the last 70 years.
http://www.woodfo...77/trend
Maybe you were thinking of the MWP which was warmer than today?
Feb 06, 2012
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Consider that in 1943/1945 the HADCRUT temperature anomaly rose above .2 3 times in 1.5 years.
1944 0.245
1944.67 0.216
1945.58 0.306
In the last 3 years the anomaly dropped BELOW those 3 peaks 3 times.
2008 0.074
2008.08 0.198
2011 0.204
Within the margin of error, it is barely warmer than 1943/45.
Feb 06, 2012
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5 years of regional temperatures aren't even global.
Do you plan to be an lying idiot the rest of your life?
"No matter how many childish insults you throw out, the last 5 winters were very, very cold." - Parker Tard
Feb 06, 2012
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It is statistical abuse to arbitrarily break up a time series as you have done to cherry pick various trends to your liking.
Further you have dishonestly chosen to use hadrcrut which is a time series that generally excludes the polar regions.
Do you intend to be a liar the rest of your life Tard Boy?
Feb 06, 2012
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You are a liar. DJF (2011) was the 11th warmest out of 131 years.
"2010 was the 15th coldest winter out of 116." - Parker Tard
You are a liar. DJF (2010) was the warmest out of 131 years.
"2009 was the 77th coldest winter out of 116." - Parker tard
You are a liar. DJF (2009) was the 9th warmest out of 131 years.
2008 was the 63rd coldest winter out of 116.
You are a liar. DJF (2008) was the 11th warmest out of 131 years.
2007 was the 81st coldest winter out of 116.
You are a liar. DJF (2007) was the 3rd warmest out of 131 years.
http://data.giss....3/GLB.Ts dSST.txt
Do you intend to be a liar for the rest of your life Parker Tard?
Feb 06, 2012
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You claimed only 30 year periods were valid.
I proved there weren't any 30 year periods of warming.
You get so huffy and deranged when I prove you very, very wrong.
You need psychiatric help.
Feb 06, 2012
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GISS has extrapolates temperatures from 1200km into the polar regions.
At least HADCRUT doesn't make up numbers like GISS does.
You are running out of data. You hate HADCRUT because it humiliates you. Same for NOAA. RSS shows significant cooling since 1998.
You are so deranged.
Feb 07, 2012
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Wrong again Tard Boy. All photons absorbed and re-emitted by CO2 in summation are responsible for CO2's Greenhouse Gas properties.
You are one spectacular anti-science idiot Libertarian Boy.
Feb 07, 2012
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"GISS has extrapolates temperatures from 1200km into the polar regions." - Parker Tard
"At least HADCRUT doesn't make up numbers like GISS does." - Parker Tard
Since every square mm of the earth's surface is not covered by a thermometer, then all global temperature estimates rely on interpolation. The HADCRUT inperpolaions omit most of the polar regions - the regions observed to be warming the fastest.
That is why you select HADCRUT as your source, because it ignores the warming at the poles, and your purpose is to construct and maintain a lie.
"You hate HADCRUT because it humiliates you." - Parker Tard
Hadcrut is a perfectly valid time series as long as it is not presented as an estimate of global average temperature as you have dishonestly and repeatedly done.
So.. Do you intend to be a liar for the remainder of your life?
Feb 07, 2012
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I claimed that climate is defined over 30 plus year periods. The plus was removed by the editor.
Still, this is not a game, and if you had any brains or honesty you would have known that climate is defined over periods much longer than 30 years.
Your game is to misrepresent the truth as much as possible, and that is why you select non-global 5 year trends to dishonestly present as proxies for global 30 year plus trends.
Do you intend to be a liar for the rest of your life Parker Tard?
Feb 07, 2012
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You are a liar. DJF (2011) was the 11th warmest out of 131 years.
"2010 was the 15th coldest winter out of 116." - Parker Tard
You are a liar. DJF (2010) was the warmest out of 131 years.
"2009 was the 77th coldest winter out of 116." - Parker tard
You are a liar. DJF (2009) was the 9th warmest out of 131 years.
2008 was the 63rd coldest winter out of 116.
You are a liar. DJF (2008) was the 11th warmest out of 131 years.
2007 was the 81st coldest winter out of 116.
You are a liar. DJF (2007) was the 3rd warmest out of 131 years.
http://data.giss....3/GLB.Ts dSST.txt
Do you intend to be a liar for the rest of your life Parker Tard?
Feb 07, 2012
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Ha ha ha. Blaming the editor? What a whiner.
Which cycle in the graph below is 30 plus years? The cooling one.
http://www.woodfo...77/trend
Feb 07, 2012
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Your missing the point NP. Every so called "FACT" that you argue is proof, is total BS. Give it up. You've lost the debate.
Feb 07, 2012
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Feb 07, 2012
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http://www.woodfo...87/trend
Do you see the trend? Also, as Al Gore has shown, CO2 (a green house gas) levels are increasing exponentially with fossil fuel consumption and with additional CO2 global average temperatures have risen. Will the temperature rise track exactly with CO2?
It doesn't matter. CO2 has huge effect on Ocean Acidification, and that will lead to the anthropogenic massive extinction events from AGW.
Feb 07, 2012
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Thats kind of like suggesting because El Nino and La Nina are short term trends up and down you can't predict a long term trend.
The long term trend is up and down UNTIL THE HOLOCENE ENDS!
The PDO goes positive and negative. AMO goes up and down. Those are 20-30 year cycles.
The LIA was a deep cold period. It ended.
There are Bond Event cycles (look it up) in the 1000 year range.
The Eemian was the pervious interglacial. It ended. 110,000 cycles.
VD is an idiot who has zero interest in actual climate.
Feb 07, 2012
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I see the TRENDS.
http://www.woodfo...77/trend
If you were a farmer deciding which crops to plant, you could lose your crops if you took YOUR trend and predicted continued warming.
If the same farmer looked the TRENDS hoe would pick a crop that does better int cooler periods because the trend for the next 20-30 years will be negative.
Maybe 30 years from now natural recovery from the LIA will start again in the same way there was a decade and half of warming after the 40 years of cooling from 1940 to 1980.
But considering how weak SC24 is and how miniscule SC25 will be, I'll bet on 50-100 years of cooling.
http://iceagenow....cooling/
Feb 07, 2012
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That maybe true. It doesn't mean we can't have fun with the mouse while it still squeaks. No, most of these AGW deniers on this board are either paid for spooks or brainwashed rightwingers from Kansas.
Feb 07, 2012
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"Which cycle in the graph below is 30 plus years? The cooling one." - Parker Tard
Here is a time series 2,1,4,3,6,5,8
You are so dishonest that you would have people think that there is no increase in the data because it contains the downward slopes 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6, ignoring the upward trends 4-1, 6-3, and 8-5.
To compute a trend over a time series you use the entire series not some cherry picked subsets.
You have been repeatedly told this and you have repeatedly retold your lie.
Do you intend to continue to be a liar for the rest of your life?
Feb 07, 2012
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"If you were a farmer deciding which crops to plant, you could lose your crops if you took YOUR trend and predicted continued warming." - Parker Tard
"But considering how weak SC24 is and how miniscule SC25 will be, I'll bet on 50-100 years of cooling." - ParkerTard
The Sunspot cycle could shout down completely and the result would be less than 6 years of CO2 enhancement at current rates of emissions.
Meanwhile January in America has been the 4th warmest ever recorded.
In my area it is being referred to as a remarkable non-winter. Yesterday's high a full 8'C warmer than the norm.
Feb 07, 2012
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It's interesting how the AGWites believe skeptics must be paid.
I guess they are projecting as it is the AGW proponents who benefit from more research grants, papers, prestige and the corporate interests who are raking in all the govt subsides. And don't forget AlGore's carbon trading scheme and the 'solution' proposed by govts is to raise taxes.
I guess it is understandable how AGWites believe people like me are paid since they cannot comprehend how anyone could disagree based upon principles as AGWites have none.
Feb 07, 2012
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The LIA was regional and reduced the global average temperature by about 0.2'C Current temperatures are 0.74'C above the historical average with a trend that is growing warmer with each passing year.
Why do you have such an emotional need to come to a science board and lie about the real world Parker Tard?
Feb 07, 2012
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And don't forget that Eron was a big promoter of the Kyoto Treaty.
Feb 07, 2012
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It is even more interesting that in large measure they are paid.
"I guess they are projecting as it is the AGW proponents who benefit from more research grants, papers, prestige and the corporate interests who are raking in all the govt subsides" - RyggTard
Yup. Exactly what the Tobacco industry said about scientists who concluded that smoking causes cancer.
"I guess it is understandable how AGWites believe people like me are paid..." - RyggTard
I don't think that you are paid Tard Boy. You simply aren't smart enough to rate payment.
Feb 07, 2012
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Do a Fourier transform of your data (to show frequencies trends) and scale it by 20 so you can see it. If you do, the FFT spikes on the right hand side, meaning an exponential rise in data (in our case, temperatures). Project that out to a hundred years bub.
Feb 07, 2012
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Thank goodness the people of California came to their senses and shut down Enron for it's dishonest Libertarian practices.
Don't you agree RyggTard?
Feb 07, 2012
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"Pointing out who profits from "green" policy is as legitimate as pointing out who would profit from deregulation or tax cuts--a favorite media pastime. "
"A Carbon Dioxide tax? That's the policy advocated by Duke Energy CEO Paul Anderson, whose company is unusually reliant on coal-fired power plants."
http://www.huffin...017.html
It really is amusing how the AGWites are the useful idiots shilling for crony 'capitalists'.
Feb 07, 2012
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"While closely associated with both Bush Administrations, Lay was ideologically closer to another political figure on the issue of climate change. In Earth in the Balance, Senator Al Gore stated: Higher taxes on fossil fuels is one of the logical first steps in changing our policies in a manner consistent with a more responsible approach to the environment, stated Lay. I agree."
http://www.master...-moment/
Feb 07, 2012
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And don't forget we've got a global warming crisis in 50 years or less from Science. We are not talking about stupid Enron conspiracy crap. This is real full blown global warming.
Feb 07, 2012
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"Between 1994 and 1996, the Enron Foundation donated $1-million to the Nature Conservancy and its Climate Change Project, a leading force for global warming reform, while [Chairman Kenneth] Lay and other individuals associated with Enron donated $1.5-million to environmental groups seeking international controls on carbon dioxide."
"energy companies are attempting to continue providing energy to consumers. Companies on the other side are merely attempting to create a financial opportunity for themselves as financial parasites who provide nothing to anyone and get rich in return."
http://my.telegra...onmclucu
Feb 07, 2012
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How does it feel to support crony 'capitalists'? It does make sense as that is just another form of socialism called fascism. Wasn't it you Hottie that suggested those who don't agree with you should be sent to re-education camps?
Feb 07, 2012
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That was the past. What we now know about the atmospheric science is 1000s of times better then we knew back then. It all points to this conclusion; fossil fuel use is going to cause global extinctions.
And yea, we send our kids to camps all of the time. Perhaps it your turn R2 for a little rethink on atmospheric science.
Feb 07, 2012
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"The fall of the house of Enron has reached the political phase.
The Bush Administration, having run up against its first honor-and-dignity issue in the person of Enron's former chief, longtime (and politically generous) Bush buddy Kenneth Lay, is fervently washing its hands of the whole mess"
Feb 07, 2012
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"No third rate burglary, the Enron Corp. scandal involves millions of dollars in campaign contributions to Bush, U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm and other members of Congress. The cozy relationship between the Bush White House and Enron enabled Kenneth L. Lay, then Enron's CEO, to meet in secret with Vice President Richard Cheney to help mold the nation's energy policy. Bush's presidential campaign received $1.14 million from Enron." - Bush's Enron Ties - Alternet
Feb 07, 2012
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"Shortly after taking office, President Bush waged a battle against the imposition of federal price controls in California that allowed Enron to price-gouge consumers by extending the energy crisis in California, costing the state billions of dollars. Enron reported increased revenues of almost $70 billion from the previous year." - Bush's Enron Ties - Alternet
Feb 08, 2012
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"Bush also resisted attempts to crack down on Enron's utilization of its 847 offshore subsidiaries in countries with lax banking-regulation laws. The consumer-rights watchdog organization Public Citizen alleges that some of these offshore havens helped Enron defraud its stockholders.
Moreover, while Sen. Gramm was working the Congress to pass legislation favorable to Enron (and collecting nearly $260,000 in campaign contributions from the company), his wife Wendy Gramm first was chairperson of a regulatory committee overseeing Enron's business activities and later a paid member of that company's board of directors. Enron paid her between $915,000 and $1.85 million, according Public Citizen. Sen. Gramm has announced his decision not to seek reelection for another term in the senate." - Bush's Enron Ties - Alternet
Feb 08, 2012
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There have been a series of potentially damaging revelations over the past few days. These include the news that Kenneth Lay, Enrons boss, had had contact with two cabinet ministers, including Mr ONeill, even as the firms problems mounted. In addition, Mr Lay and other Enron executives had contact with White House officials and Dick Cheney, the vice president, before and during Enrons slide towards bankruptcy. On top of that, Arthur Andersen, Enron's auditor, admitted this week that it had destroyed many documents and electronic files relating to the company's financial position." - Bush's Enron ties - The Economist - Jan 11th 2002
Feb 08, 2012
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Fascism thy ideology is Libertarian/Randite.
Feb 08, 2012
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Further you are quoting from a British Rag that whose staff was hired by a convicted felon (who just so happens to be a Libertarian/Randite like yourself), who is now spending time in an American Prison.
Odd how you never manage to find honest sources of information RyggTard.
I have never encountered a Libertarian/Randite who wasn't a congenital and perpetual liar.
You are clearly no exception.
Feb 08, 2012
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And where does this factoid come from?
MasterResource - A free-market energy blog
A Libertairan/Randite Blog of zero repute.
And who is the author of the Lies produced in RyggTard's blog reference?
Robert L. Bradley, Jr. (born June 17, 1955) is CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research; an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.; and a visiting fellow of the Institute for Economic Affairs in London.
So he is a fellow of the two most dishonest propaganda organs in the United States, the Cato Institute and the CEI.
Do you intend to be a liar for the rest of your life RyggTard?
Feb 08, 2012
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Feb 08, 2012
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How convenient for AGWites. Control the press and the science journals and they control the story.
Very socialistic.
This is why blogs like ClimateAudit started documenting how climate data is selectively reported and how the journals limit real peer review.
When forced by Congress, even the NAS had to acknowledge such failures.
AGWism is a religion and Hottie is one of its most faithful.
Feb 08, 2012
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"Jørgen Peder Steffensen is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and one of the worlds leading experts on ice cores.
Using ice cores from sites in Greenland, he has been able to reconstruct temperatures there for the last 10000 years. So what are his conclusions?
Temperatures in Greenland were about 1.5 C warmer 1000 years ago than now.
It was perhaps 2.5 C warmer 4000 years ago.
The period around 1875, at the lowest point of the Little Ice Age, marked the coldest point in the last 10,000 years.
Other evidence from elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere confirms this picture."
http://notalotofp...0-years/
Feb 08, 2012
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Greenland is not the entire Globe Tard Boy.
You continue to dishonestly cherry pick your locations and time intervals and presenting only those isolated instances where the cherry picked data supports your preferred world view.
Global warming on the other hand is a global climatological event that becomes increasingly documented with every passing day.
Do you intend to continue to be a liar for the rest of your life?
You are pretty incompetent at it.
Feb 08, 2012
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Ha ha ha ha.
HADCRUT3 has 2011 .2C below 1998. Is it noticeable?
Would a sane person call a .2C drop a "Little Ice Age"?
You are deranged.
"The Little Ice Age (or LIA) refers to a period between 1350 and 1900 when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were between 1.0 and 2.0°C cooler than at present. A NASA website that provides details on current research reports that "during the Little Ice Age, access to Greenland was largely cut off by ice from 1410 to the 1720s. At the same time, canals in Holland routinely froze solid, glaciers advanced in the Alps, and sea-ice increased so much that no open water was present in any direction around Iceland in 1695."
http://www.ncdc.n...000.html
Feb 08, 2012
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Even the IPCC suggest otherwise.
"1°C relative to late 20th century"
"1 to 2°C below normal during the late 17th century"
"the coldest decades for the North American continent were closer to 1.5°C colder "
http://www.ipcc.c.../070.htm
And we know the IPCC underplays anything that detracts from their delusional CO2 theory.
Feb 08, 2012
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Much of what I quoted about Enron and it's close ties to the Bush administration came from the conservative magazine "The Economist".
Odd isn't it how it completely contradicts the story you posted from Libertarian Blogs and Libertarian propaganda front groups associated with the industry propaganda organs known as the CATO Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
"When forced by Congress, even the NAS had to acknowledge such failures." - RyggTard
You are probably referring to the original hockey stick graph by Mann, which the NAS studied and scientifically vindicated.
There are now dozens of similar hockey stick graphs all produced from different data sets and different analysis methods. All show the same curve as the one you are whining about.
Odd how the Frauds at Climate Audit seem to ignore all of the others.
Why is that Tard Boy?
Feb 08, 2012
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But well above every year prior to 1998 and most since 2000.
You dishonestly select 1998 because your goal is to misrepresent the data and deceive the public.
http://www.cru.ue.../gtc.gif
Do you intend to remain a liar for the rest of your life Tard Boy?
Feb 08, 2012
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That is exactly what you are doing.
Given the documented extent of your lies, we no longer need question your honesty... And yes, your sanity is now in doubt.
"The Little Ice Age (or LIA) refers to a period between 1350 and 1900 when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were between 1.0 and 2.0°C cooler than at present." - Parker Tard
Current temps are 0.74'C warmer than the baseline. This puts the LIA temps .26'C below the baseline.
The 1'C decline over current temps is used because that is approximately how much the global temperature differed from the present day.
Your 2'C figure is not global but regional, and hence not applicable to comparisons of global averages.
Do you intend to continue to be a liar for the rest of your life Tard Boy?
Feb 08, 2012
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Clearly he is suffering from some form of mental illness.
From his own reference....
"Thus current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this timeframe, and the conventional terms of "Little Ice Age" and "Medieval Warm Period" appear to have limited utility in describing trends in hemispheric or global mean temperature changes in past centuries"
Feb 08, 2012
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These are the 5 coldest Winters
rank DJF
1 -1.17 1684
2 -0.40 1740
3 -0.33 1963
4 0.43 1814
5 0.47 1795
The Winter of 2007 was 7.5C warmer than 1684.
http://www.metoff...sort.txt
Feb 08, 2012
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Really? Their own evidence shows the whole northern hemisphere warmed and cooled.
Just because the southern hemisphere is not perfectly in synch proves nothing. There is much less land mass in the SH.
Even today Antarctic Sea Ice is above normal while Arctic Sea is below.
7.5C difference is a lot. The LIA was COLD.
Feb 08, 2012
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Japan
"At about 1360, however, they say the warm-climate species "decreased, suggesting cooler climatic conditions," which point in time is noted by them as corresponding to "the beginning of the Little Ice Age as generally recognized in Japan (Sakaguchi, 1995)."
During this multi-century global cool spell, Kitagawa et al. report that "serious famines frequently occurred because of adverse climatic conditions," three of which were especially serious. Quoting them again, "both the Kyoho famine in 1732 and the Tenmei famine (1782-1787) resulted in population decreases of about one million, and during the Tenpo famine (1823-1839) the population declined by ca. 290,000 (Nakajima, 1976).""
http://www.co2sci...6/C2.php
Feb 08, 2012
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"These are the 5 coldest Winters" - Parker tard
HADSET = Hadley Central European Temperature
Central Europe isn't the globe Tard Boy.
Once again you are cherry picking your data sources and dishonestly comparing regional weather fluctuations with global temperature averages.
Do you intend to be a Liar for the rest of your life Tard Boy?
Feb 08, 2012
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5 coldest summers
1 13.10 1725
2 13.17 1695
3 13.37 1816
4 13.47 1860
5 13.60 1823
4C colder than today.
Feb 08, 2012
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Really, the statement is from your own reference you posted to support your political world view.
Don't you agree with your own reference any more?
Idiot.
Feb 08, 2012
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The high tide of glacial advance at Franz Joseph came between the late 17th Century and early 19th Century, just as it did in the European Alps.
2) Glaciers in the European Alps advanced significantly around 1600 to 1610, again from 1690 to 1700, in the 1770s and around 1820 and 1850.
3) Ice sheets in Alaska, the Canadian Rockies and Mount Rainier in the NW United States moved forward simultaneously.
4) ... 19th Century in the Caucasus, the Himalayas and China."
http://notalotofp...ice-age/
Feb 08, 2012
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Currently Arctic Sea Ice is 1.2 million square kilometers lower in extent than the recent historical norms.
http://arctic.atm...ctic.png
Ice volume for both the northern and southern polar ice caps are in decline.
http://neven1.typ...1970c-pi
http://neven1.typ...0d-800wi
http://www.columb...ig20.gif
Do you intend to continue to be a Liar for the rest of your life Tard Boy?
Feb 08, 2012
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I'll demolish them
Feb 08, 2012
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http://arctic.atm...ctic.png
Feb 08, 2012
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"The researchers used satellite measurements taken with the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, a joint effort of NASA and Germany, to calculate that the world's glaciers and ice caps had lost about 148 billion tons, or about 39 cubic miles of ice annually from 2003 to 2010. The total does not count the mass from individual glacier and ice caps on the fringes of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets -- roughly an additional 80 billion tons."
http://www.physor...firstCmt
Feb 08, 2012
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Currently there are about 30,000,000 cubic kilometers of ice in the world's icecaps and glaciers.
39 cu miles = 162 cubic km.
Only 185,000 years to go ...
If you ignore the fact that the ice sheet in Greenland was growing up until 2003. http://www.esa.in...t_0.html
Feb 08, 2012
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5 coldest Fall's
7.50 1676
7.50 1786
7.53 1740
7.67 1675
7.67 1688
5C colder than today.
Feb 08, 2012
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Coldest January 1795 averaged -3.1C
10.1C colder than 2007
http://www.metoff...sort.txt
Feb 08, 2012
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Aside from the fact it will take 185,000 years to melt ... if the next ice age never arrives ...
"The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall."
http://www.guardi...ountains
Feb 08, 2012
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Coldest January in HADCET.
HADSET = Hadley Central European Temperature series.
Central Europe is a small region, not the globe. The temperature reduction was primarily regional in scope, not global.
Try again Tard Boy.
Feb 08, 2012
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Meanwhile back here in the real world...
GRACE Equivalent Water Mass Balance of the Himalayas and Tibet Plateau Region - R.R. Muskett - Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol 10.
Comparison of the regional time series shows near synchronized annular periodicity with high positive correlation. Least-squares regression after the removal of an annular periodicity, suggests the Himalaya - Tibet Plateau had an area average water thickness reduction of 0.031 plus or minus 0/019 cm/month, equivalent to a water volume loss of 17.9 plus or minus 11.0 km**3 per year.
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You poor Tard you.
Feb 08, 2012
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You are absolutely right Tard Boy. The world is growing warmer and warmer and now even the vast Greenland ice cap is melting along with the northern polar ice cap and the Antarctic ice cap as measured by mass.
Feb 08, 2012
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Except for the massive ice sheets that are due any time now as the Holocene ends.
What you forget is that ice has been melting (except during the LIA) for at least 11,000 years.
When it stops, the Holocene is over.
Feb 08, 2012
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I asked you for 10 regions where the LIA never occurred.
I offered evidence for Japan and North America and New Zealand and Asia.
I'm still waiting ....
Feb 08, 2012
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Feb 08, 2012
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Current global temperatures are measured to be 0.74'C above historical norms, and are projected to be 3'C above those norms by 2100.
Through what stupidity do you anticipate that melt rates will not continue to increase as temperatures continue to rise?
Through what stupidity do you argue that there melting will not pose a problem until the entire antarctic ice cap has melted?
Poor Parker Tard. Dishonest, disingenuous, loser.
Feb 08, 2012
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The volcanic events that precipitated the strong regional cooling in Europe known as the LIA also caused some minor cooling in other regions of the world.
This is not in dispute. On average global average temperatures dropped approximately 0.2'C over the period.
Currently global average temperatures are 0.74'C higher than the same reference temperature.
Feb 08, 2012
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You don't seem capable of comprehending that Europe is a region, not the globe.
Further, your examples of the coldest years on record are not representative of the average temperatures of the region during the period in question, where even in Central Europe average temperatures were 0.5'C cooler than the norm.
Again, from your own reference.
http://www.metoff...date.gif
Clearly your inability to accept these simple facts and your perpetual cherry picking of irrelevant data are ample evidence of your mental illness and dishonesty.
Feb 08, 2012
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And, while you're there, give us updates on moisture and methane levels as well.
Feb 08, 2012
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Anyway, I keep asking VD and his other STD buddies to give an examples of 10 regions without any evidence of an LIA.
But they don't have any.
Feb 08, 2012
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LIA: New Zealand? Yes.
LIA: USA? Yes.
LIA: Asia: Yes.
LIA Canada? Yes
MWP: Canada: Yes
"Melting icefields on Baffin Island, one of the clearest signs of climate change on Earth today, have yielded the strongest evidence yet for the timing and cause of another major climate event from the planet's past: the so-called Little Ice Age, a sudden and mysterious cooling of the globe that began about 700 years ago.
Recently exposed remains of plants that had been buried under Baffin Island ice for centuries provided the crucial clue that has led an international team of researchers to conclude the Little Ice Age was triggered by volcanic eruptions between AD 1275 and 1300 and was sustained by changes in Arctic sea-ice cover that lasted several centuries."
http://www.canada...Evidence cause Little found Canada North/6073447/story.html
Feb 08, 2012
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http://en.wikiped...e#Africa
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"The major contribution provided by the documentary evidence has been to confirm the occurrence of a cold period in the Laguna San Rafael area, which would be within the temporal window defined for the European LIA. Furthermore, they conclude that the sole historical evidence suggests that warm conditions prevailed around 1675, a date in which the front of the San Rafael glacier did not extend beyond the eastern shoreline of the lake. Later, a cooling period occurred from 1766 to 1898, with a peak between 1857 and 1871, during which the glacier advanced up to 8 km into the interior of the Laguna San Rafael. This cooling period declined after 1898, as evidenced by the decrease of the San Rafael glacier, which had retreated 1 km by 1904.
http://www.worldc...america/
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Winters that are 10C colder in Europe ... the place with thermometers.
Maybe you have other thermometers that show otherwise? In other places.
Feb 08, 2012
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http://www.usnews...-thought
Make that 250,000 years.
Feb 08, 2012
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The volcanic events that precipitated the strong regional cooling in Europe known as the LIA also caused some minor cooling in other regions of the world.
This is not in dispute. On average global average temperatures dropped approximately 0.2'C over the period.
Currently global average temperatures are 0.74'C higher than the same reference temperature.
Feb 09, 2012
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"Wahr says, according to his team's estimates, about 30 percent less ice is melting than previously thought." - Parker Tard
Once again, I quote from your own reference Parker Tard...
"Our results and those of everyone else show we are losing a huge amount of water into the oceans every year," said Prof John Wahr of the University of Colorado. "People should be just as worried about the melting of the world's ice as they were before."
http://www.guardi...tcmp=122
Feb 09, 2012
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But as I have shown, your own references show that on average winters in the Central European region were only 0.5'C cooler than the average.
HADCET - your own reference shows this.
Here it is again....
http://www.metoff...date.gif
Your continued lying is only damaging what little reputation you have left.
Are you completely incapable of comprehending that as well?
Feb 09, 2012
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The report is written by a known scumbag - Patrick Michaels - who makes big bucks shilling for the Oil Industry.
The World Climate Report is a fine example as by created and funded by the Western Fuels Association.
http://www.exxons...hp?id=85
"The major contribution provided by the documentary evidence has been to confirm the occurrence of a cold period in the Laguna San Rafael area, which would be within the temporal window defined for the European LIA." - World Climate Report
Feb 09, 2012
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"The time periods from no 1500 to 1800, and from 800-200 BC are shown to have been the coolest episodes in the last three millennia, with temperatures up to 1 degreesC lower than at present." - A preliminary 3000-year regional temperature reconstruction for South Africa
by K Holmgren, P D Tyson, A Moberg, O Svanered - South African Journal Of Science (2001)
Volume: 97, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 49-51
1'C lower than the current temp which is 0.74'C higher than the standard. That makes the LIA in Africa up to 0.26'C cooler than the modern standard.
So much for your dishonest claim of a 10'C cooling.
Feb 09, 2012
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"A similar series of tropical volcanic eruptions around the year AD 1450 which initially blocked sunlight but also extended Arctic ice cover and increased iceberg production in the North Atlantic coincided with another pulse of icefield growth and the flash-freeze killing of plants at different locations on the Nunavut island." - Around the Arctic January 30, 2012 - 3:33 pm
Evidence for cause of Little Ice Age found in Canadas North
So now you know the principle trigger of the LIA. It wasn't a decrease in solar output as denialists have continually claimed. It wasn't a decrease in CO2 levels as denialists have continually implied. It wasn't caused by space aliens or cosmic rays, or hoards of goats, or whatever other mindless claptrap that comes into your brainless skulls.
It was triggered by a series of volcanic eruptions which caused a largely hemispheric cooling which was then amplified by positive feedback effects of ice.
Feb 09, 2012
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For decades you denialist morons have been claiming that the LIA was all due to sunspots. Make up your Tard Boy Mind.
Feb 09, 2012
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Wait ... the globe spanning synchronous Little Ice Age occurred??????
I thought you were denying that right up until a few hours ago!!!!!!!
Wow. VD finally gives in on one of the most crucial points.
Since the globe spanning synchronous Little Ice Age DID OCCUR, then all proxies that do not show the globe spanning synchronous Little Ice Age are invalid.
IPCC DEAD!
Feb 09, 2012
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"Without fully discounting the influence of the solar radiation cycle on the medieval cooling trend ..."
Ahhh. Volcanoes Solar change = LIA. Sounds quite reasonable.
"we can conclude that multi-decadal average summer temperatures never returned to those of Medieval times until the 20th century,"
So the MWP was just as warm as today. Then the LIA occurred all around the globe and cooled off the planet and all warming since the globally synchronous Little Ice Age was just the planet returning to normal.
Nice theory VD. I win.
Feb 09, 2012
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A naked assertion.
You lose. :lol:
Feb 09, 2012
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Yup, and it lowered global average temperatures by about 0.2'C
above the baseline.
Currently global average temperatures are 0.74'C above the baseline.
As your own references have shown, and which you have chosen to ignore, is the fact that the cooling - as I have repeatedly said - was largely regional, and despite your failed attempts to lie about the cooling being 10'C cooler than normal, even in the coldest regions of Europe, the average cooling was no more than 0.4'C cooler than the baseline.
Now your lie is in claiming that I had said that the LIA never occurred, when in fact I have repeatedly stated the fact that the LIA was largely a regional cooling, a fact that YOUR OWN REFERENCES HAVE VERIFIED.
The fact that your lies have been so thoroughly exposed BY YOUR OWN REFERENCES - and yet you continue to repeat them, is proof that you are mentally ill.
Feb 09, 2012
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MORON.
"we can conclude that multi-decadal average summer temperatures never returned to those of Medieval times until the 20th century," - Parker Tard
Educate yourself MORON.
http://www.youtub...qgdvXTxE
Feb 09, 2012
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I win. Again.
Feb 09, 2012
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MORON.
Feb 09, 2012
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"Without fully discounting the influence of the solar radiation cycle on the medieval cooling trend, the researchers found, however, clear indications on Baffin Island that mosses and other plants that had thrived in the centuries prior to AD 1300 were suddenly killed during a time marked by cataclysmic discharges from volcanoes erupting in the Southern Hemisphere.
A similar series of tropical volcanic eruptions around the year AD 1450 which initially blocked sunlight but also extended Arctic ice cover and increased iceberg production in the North Atlantic coincided with another pulse of icefield growth and the flash-freeze killing of plants at different locations on the Nunavut island."
Since when does a .2C drop cause the flash-freeze killing of plants.
I win for supplying facts.
VD wins for dumbest comment ever.
Feb 09, 2012
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Not that I'd expect you to understand what either are. :rolleyes:
Feb 09, 2012
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http://www.biolog...012.html
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Ninth ... Brrrr. Its getting colder.
I mean whoa ... 2011 is a whole .3C warmer than 70 years ago.
Why that means according to VD the 1930s and 40s were practically capable of flash freezing plant life!
Feb 09, 2012
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I win. VD can't insult his way out of being so stupid he thinks a .2C drop in temperatures can flash freeze plant life!!
HA ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!
Feb 09, 2012
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Feb 09, 2012
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Thats right ... January 1943 was warmer than January 2011.
http://www.cru.ue...t3gl.txt
68 years later ... it was colder.
Feb 09, 2012
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I think when VD claims that the LIA was .2C colder and reputable scientists describe the drop in temperature as being so cold it could flash freeze plants, VD deserves to be laughed at.
Feb 09, 2012
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Ooops. 1944. 67 years later.
January 1942 was also warmer than January 2011.
Feb 09, 2012
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Feb 10, 2012
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It is you who are stupid for thinking we are all so blind as to not see when and how you deliberately misrepresent what others have presented, or how you engage in selective winnowing of facts so as to conveniently ignore those that rebut your claims.
Now, rebut the NASA data just presented, if you can.
Feb 10, 2012
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Once again Parker Tard's own reference doesn't agree with his claim.
Year J F M A M
1939 -0.067 -0.063 -0.223 -0.063 -0.004
1940 -0.190 -0.052 -0.095 0.049 0.035
1941 -0.040 0.066 -0.049 0.159 -0.012
1942 0.215 -0.084 -0.052 -0.072 0.026
1943 -0.212 -0.022 -0.228 -0.056 -0.005
1944 0.240 0.111 0.109 -0.011 0.049
1945 -0.027 -0.075 -0.060 0.116 -0.174
1946 -0.005 -0.045 -0.233 -0.055 -0.266
1947 -0.242 -0.299 -0.226 -0.091 -0.228
1948 -0.070 -0.281 -0.332 -0.207 -0.078
1949 -0.003 -0.258 -0.308 -0.173 -0.186
1950 -0.486 -0.365 -0.320 -0.299 -0.228
1951 -0.457 -0.563 -0.396 -0.227 -0.139
2011 0.194 0.259 0.322 0.407 0.329
Further one month cherry picked from a single year is not climate. It is statistically insignificant weather.
Feb 10, 2012
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"I think when VD claims that the LIA was .2C colder and reputable scientists describe the drop in temperature as being so cold it could flash freeze plants" - Parker Tard
The first snow fall of every year flash freezes plants. They only thaw if the snow melts.
In addition the 0.2'C cooling of the LIA is a global average. Parker Tard seems to think that it is proper to compare regional averages with global averages, and on top of this he provides references that show a regional 0.4'C cooling in central Europe during the LIA to support is idiotic claim that temperatures were 10'C colder during that period.
Parker Tard is clearly suffering from a mental illness.
Feb 10, 2012
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@NP - You take things out of context or misinterpret things, and from how frequently and repeatedly you do it I suspect that it is deliberate.
For example, here VD clearly states that the GLOBAL impact on CLIMATE (decades) is 0.2C.
However flash-freezing of plants is a SHORT-TERM impact found in areas not too far from the eruptions.
A big eruption that blocked sunlight for weeks in the arctic could easily flash-freeze plants (by directly lowering the temperature or by shifting weather patterns to bring in colder air), and yet after the tropospheric dust settled the GLOBAL MULTI-DECADAL impact of the stratospheric dust could be only 0.2 degrees.
So do you REALLY not understand the difference, or are you dishonest in pretending to not understand the difference?
Feb 10, 2012
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And offers nothing as proof.
I offerred actual thermometer data that shows some winters were 7C colder during the LIA.
How could anyone in their right mind suggest .2C could cause a Little Ice Age is beyond me.
.2C is about the average difference in temperature from Aug 15th to August 18th in the UK. Totally unnoticeable.
I would say arguing that .2C would cause a mini ice age is about the stupidest thing VD and his fellow STD's ever said ... which is quite amazing.
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Aha. .2C is statistically insignificant weather ... but it can also cause a mini ice age?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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As I corrected later, 1942 and 1944 January were warmer than 2011.
Interesting isn't it that the difference between 1942/1944 and 2011 is "statistically insignificant weather" in VD's demented little mind, but he also claims .2C for the LIA is enough to flash freeze plants.
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Did you know January temperatures in the UK varied by 8C over the last 100 years?
The warmest was 1916
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