12 inches of Global Warming

A peaceful, winter meditation on Cap and Trade.

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[spatiotemporal]

Is the Republican party in Virginia as ignorant and myopic as this video makes them appear?

[substanti8]

skepticalscience. com/medieval-warm-period.htm

[Archtraveler]

@kscheffler Not sure if you're still following this thread, but I hope you have been following the ongoing investigations into Mann and his exploits, namely while he was at Virginia. Not only that, but the email trails from Climategate that show the circular back-scratching of the "peer review" process from within his group of researchers. So many scientists and policy-makers have erroneously relied upon his faulty data that he should be tarred and feathered, for real.

[bigvic22sti]

so the earths climate only depends on areas were it snowed?

[kdocki]

@spatiotemporal Yeah, this guy is just trying to queue up some points for his campaign. I think he may also has a short penis. So cut him some slack. ;)

[steveoboston]

How'd you guys know my nickname was Global Warming?

In all seriousness, anyone who thinks that a snowstorm in VA means that global warming isn't legitimate has no business being in a position of leadership. Ask any middle school kid to distinguishing between "global" vs "local", "climate" vs "weather", and "trend" vs "anecdote".

[liOVERLOADil]

Elias. Politicians believe whatever is popular. They are professional lairs.

[liOVERLOADil]

Speaking of peer review, Phil Jones of the East Anglia CRU refused to have their climate data peer reviewed (as exposed by their leaked, and confirmed authentic emails). This data is the official data which IPCC reports are based off of, and the justification for Cap and Trade Tax. Don't you think its odd that the official scientists of Climate Change didn't want their data looked at? Why the secrecy?

[liOVERLOADil]

Considering your righteous indignation, I'm not going to try to change your immovable beliefs, so I'll give you the tools to challenge them...that is if you value truth and not blind partisanship. Look up these phrases: "CO2 follows temperature", "Water vapor greenhouse gas", "heat island effect", "solar variation" (the little that is known about the effect of the sun on the climate), and bad temp readings by official weather stations. I've got a lot more...

[substanti8]

... 4 months later with a rebuttal, buried halfway down this page:

sepp. org/Archive/weekwas/2001/ June30.htm

They countered, "Broecker's statement that only borehole temperatures and snowlines can reconstruct temperatures to within 0.5 C is not supported in the literature."

BTW ... also note another excellent letter from Bradley (above the response to Broecker).

Also note this interesting observation from Broecker 13 years ago:

faculty. washington. edu/wcalvin/teaching/ Broecker97.html

[substanti8]

3. Your last link is broken, but I found the article:

dx. doi. org/10.1126/ science.291.5508.1497

This is real science; good work. But the peer review refutes the argument set forth by Dr. Broecker (who is an actual climate scientist, unlike Anthony Watts).

Broecker argued that the Medieval Warm Period "was likely global, and that the present warming should be attributed in part to such an oscillation."

However, right below that, you can see that Bradley (and 5 others) replied ...

[substanti8]

Thanks for making the effort, but that's not real science.

1. The essay by William Gray is full of factual errors (which is probably why it wasn't published anywhere else but a lunatic web site). Here's more about the opinions of Professor Gray:

logicalscience. com/skeptics/Gray.html

2. Like the Gray shpeel, the entry from the BLOG of Anthony Watts is also not peer reviewed. What little review there is (in the comments by Slioch) rips the piece to shreds.