Monckton Bunkum Part 2 - Sensitivity

SOURCES:

2" Interview on Australian TV program 'Sunrise' 2009

1'02" McNeil publishing history: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~bmcneil...

4'19" Royer

4'29" "The equilibrium sensitivity of the Earth's temperature to radiation changes"
R. Knutti and G. Heger
Nature Geoscience 2008

5'59" Rebuttals to Lindzen
"Relationships between tropical sea surface temperature and top-of-atmosphere radiation"
K. Trenberth, J. Fasullo, C. O'Dell T. Wong
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2010

"Constraining climate sensitivity with linear fits to outgoing radiation"
Daniel M. Murphy, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 2010

"Revisiting the determination of climate sensitivity from relationships between surface temperature and radiative fluxes"
E. Chung, B. Soden, B. Sohn
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2010

"The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific—A Regional Model Study"
A. Lauer et al
Journal of Climate, 2010

6'15" Monckton-Lambert debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5N8E...

6'34" "Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered," Forum on Physics and Society, July 2008

6'53" Calculation rebuuttals at:
http://duoquartuncia.blogspot.com/200...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/...

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/...

http://www.altenergyaction.org/Monckt...

7'40" "Taking Greenhouse Warming Seriously"
R. Lindzen, Energy and Environment, Dec 2007

8'14" "Chuck it again, Schmidt"
Christopher Monckton, July 2008
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/ima...

9'16" Speech sponsored by Minnesota Free Market Institute St. Paul, October 2009

10'04" Monckton notes, FCPP website
http://www.fcpp.org/pdf/MoncktonwNote...

11'58" Speech in Melbourne, February 2009

12'28" Interview on Australian TV program 'Sunrise' 2009

13'06" Monckton-Lambert debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5N8E...

13'53" Monckton testimony to US House Energy Independence & Global Warming Committee
6 May 2010

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  Science & Technology

[loqkLoqkson]

I'm sure someone has pointed this out, but, regardless of temperature, a degree Kelvin = a degree Celsius = a degree centigrade. Kelvin and Celsius only differ in absolute value, not in degree, whereas a Fahrenheit degree = 5⁄9 of a Celsius, Kelvin or centigrade degree.

[potholer54]

=I'm sure someone has pointed this out, but, regardless of temperature, a degree Kelvin = a degree Celsius = a degree centigrade= Someone else mentioned this, but it's not in dispute, so I'm curious as to why you're pointing it out. (BTW, it's Kelvin, not degrees Kelvin. Monckton got it wrong.)

[mindgrapes]

Noticed at one point you state that Monckton confusing sensitivity and forcing is like confusing time and distance. I recently learned that, in a sufficiently physics-literate setting, it would be perfectly fine to use units of time in place of distance (or vice versa), as they can be converted through c.

[potholer54]

=it would be perfectly fine to use units of time in place of distance= Either you were misinformed or you misunderstood. Time and distance are different units. Time can be correlated or linked to distance, but that doesn't make them the same thing.

[Sybsop]

I wonder if it's possible for Monckton to be more full of shit than he already is now that he has also gone birther.

[IshayuG]

I will just make one small, passing comment. Anyone who says that clouds trap more radiation from earth than they reflect away has never seen a rainy day. If they trapped more radiation than they reflect away, a cloud cover would make it brighter, but we all know that is utter nonsense.

[grindupBaker]

Also at 11:40 water vapour reflects some heat radiated from Earth's surface back 24 hours per day but cloud tops reflect some sunlight back to space during the day only, none at night.

[LueTm]

DEM EYES!

[CorporateEvolution]

I would disagree with you, except that whilst I believe in climate change science, the majority of the proposed instruments and those in effect only serve to make money for financial institutions and fractionally help the environment.

[CorporateEvolution]

I don't use credit, I only nom on interest and use it to acquire assets. So I don't mind fractual reserve banking when banks are properly regulated, and their boards don't change every ten years... and they cause a financial crisis every ten years.

[micheal49]

Is there anything Monckton has gotten right?

[verifieramera]

It is a medical condition.

[Molybdaenmornell]

Of course the climate issue is being abused for power and money --because some people will abuse anything they can get. BUT: This proves NOTHING about climate itself! You may suspect that it was all elaborately made up, but if you really want to KNOW, don't watch debates and blog posts. What you need to do is find trustworthy raw data and scientific publications which evaluate them properly. Ideally, you evaluate them yourself. Not fun. Not easy. Not exciting --unless you're a scientist like me.

[larrys92120]

actually you are wrong in 1948 centigrade was renamed Celsius to avoid confusion with the french, spanish, and several other languages that use the word centigrade for a unit of angular measurement (1/10,000 of a right angle) and to honer the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744) who created a temperature scale very similar to the centigrade temp. scale. they are the same scale with 0 being freezing of water and 100 being boiling at 1 atmosphere.