UNM Climatologist Tackles Climate Change, Skeptics

University of New Mexico professor David Gutzler takes on the issue of climate change - including what he would advise government officials do about climate change, and responds to those still skeptical about human-influenced climate change. Professor Gutzler will be updating his climate change research data on his Web site, http://epswww.unm.edu/facstaff/gutzler/home.htm

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• University of New Mexico
• David Gutzler
• Climate Change
• James Lovelock

[JVbin]

Video of a PhD meteorologist discussing climate change, yet any retard who can type in less than 500 characters feel they know more than he does about what he's devoted his entire academic career to? How come we don't get this with any other scientific issue? In no other field do scientists have to put up with this shit. A dentist never has to get his e-mails hacked into by people who remove their own teeth using string and a door.

[CultOfTheMellowDay]

@JVbin

Does dentistry have an effect on global taxation, trade and development? Do policies based on dentistry restrict peoples mobility based on income, or effect their ability to use and develop industry while allowing a few people to get rich off cap and trade?

Let's get over the idea that science or scientists are infallible or even incorruptible.

It may be the best explanation we have but best explanations have often proven to be outrageously untrue and there's a lot riding on this one.

[cchanderson]

@acavideo Listen peanut brain. My core curriculum for my science degree was meteorology and climatology. I don't need some wacked out lib trying to "save the planet" telling me what is good science and what is junk science. One out of five of my professors condoned global warming the rest either flatly dismissed it or stated it was impossible to tell with the limited amount of available data. I have read countless hours of reports and studied this extensively. Go Fuck Yourself...narrow mind.

[cchanderson]

I can't believe people still believe in Human created Global Warming! This was debunked years ago. Fifty top German scientists (the smart kind) prevented it's legislature from passing a Global Warming bill and the legislature listened (thank God). Western political arenas are strengthening in positions against these wild ideas for a reason...ITS JUNK SCIENCE!

[gufpott]

@JVbin - Why is this different?

This is a catastrophe theory which has elevated itself out of the quaint world of debate in obscure journals, into the full glare of the public arena.

The public has no patience for quaint debate when demands are being made for painful changes. Extraordinary claims must be supported by extraordinary evidence. If the extraordinary claims cannot be supported without question, it's gonna get squashed.

If you cannot stand the sight, better to look away.

[uboat21]

Let me guess, " the hottest year on record " (NOT). Google GREENLAND HOCKEY STICKS , to see what makes "Skeptics" go.

[kshackleton]

Well...what we have is surface warming combined with stratospheric cooling, so your point is moot.

"Warm the surface by radiative physics requires a warmer column of air above."

This is not precisely true. What is required is an increase in greenhouse gases which then increase the radiative effect.

Radiation which would otherwise be lost to space [or the stratosphere] is radiated back to the surface, warming it; while cooling the stratosphere.

[gufpott]

Correction: "If all you have is stratospheric cooling, radiative physics cannot lead to surface WARMING.

Bye bye

[gufpott]

Predictions need to be testable otherwise it's not science. Excusing a hypothesis on its own imperfection is not science.

Warm the surface by radiative physics requires a warmer column of air above. If all you have is stratospheric cooling, radiative physics cannot lead to surface cooling. Violation of 1st Law.

It was the IPCC who referred to 1979 vs1958. Not me.

Quibble all you like about "warmest" as you evade the real point.

That's really it - you're wasting my time.

Bye bye.