Global Warming: It's Not About the Hockey Stick

You hear it from poorly informed climate deniers all the time. Global warming they say, is entirely based on a "hockey stick" graph - it's a simple minded correlation of temperatures and co2 rise.
Well, no it's not.

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Links and supporting material:

Richard Alley speech at Penn State
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwhfsqfMcmk

Richard Alley on Capitol Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2m9SNzxJJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S_82BUshM8



More on the "Hockey Stick"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz8Ve6KE-Us

http://www.skepticalscience.com/broken-hockey-stick.htm

Hockey Sticks from numerous sources
http://www.skepticalscience.com/hockey-stick-without-tree-rings.html

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/08/22/300821/nsf-inspector-general-investi...

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2010/09/21/206729/hockey-stick-global-warming/

http://climatecrocks.com/2011/11/24/hockey-stick-in-reverse-arctic-sea-ice-lo...

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/01/27/207416/science-temperatures-atlantic...

http://www.skepticalscience.com/Arctic-sea-ice-hockey-stick-melt-unprecedente...

Climate Crocks playlist
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=029130BFDC78FA33

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• Climate change
• climate
• climategate
• hockey stick
• anthony watts
• richard muller
• michael mann
• keith briffa
• tree rings
• global warming
• CO2
• carbon dioxide
• climate science
• radiative properties

[fjkhoury01]

Its fascinating how each of those hockey stick graphs only demonstrated the time scale back aprox 1 millennia whereas climatographic time scales tend to span a thousand millennia.

[greenman3610]

@fjkhoury01

for longer time scales, see IPCC 4th assessment, chapter 6, Paleoclimate - goes back 55 million years.

also these vids -

watch?v=ZGFAWzjO378

watch?v=uE6at2IEUOU

You can also google 'Origin and Evolution of Earth" for a National Academy document describing earth's history in readable form. Free to read online - try chapter 3 "A Habitable Planet"

[ColdWarWarriors]

Lets have a Carbon Tax, that will solve everything! not.

[greenman3610]

@ColdWarWarriors

Let's have another war for oil, since that worked so well in the past.

[ColdWarWarriors]

@greenman3610 Do you have any real solutions or are we all going to be livng in caves again?

[greenman3610]

@ColdWarWarriors

solutions videos so far:

watch?v=pSdnycHfLnQ

watch?v=llIbjC49Fjs

watch?v=WO3V2uXTM6k

watch?v=6J-ijPcv1VM

watch?v=f4yA_kRejp0

[JonThm]

Photosynthesis metabolises carbon dioxide.  The level of this gas is totally controlled by the efficiency of photosynthesis

[spamvigilante]

Why is it that there is not a SINGLE climatologist who has written a peer-reviewed article claiming that global warming is a myth?

There are plenty of podiatrists, physicists, tobacco salesmen, and chemists. But not a SINGLE climatologist. All of these other "expert scientists" were hired by oil and coal companies.

Why is that?

I've asked many to cite a SINGLE source. All I have ever gotten back was angry expletives.

Where is the proof? I'm still waiting, you deniers.

[MrJivePirate]

@ColdWarWarriors I've got a solution, it begins with n and ends with uclear power.

[FtheIneffable]

@EscapeHatchery So... do you actually have any relevant arguments or do you think this name-calling thing you do is good enough? He's a scientist. You are not. Shut the fuck up.

[JonThm]

The carbon cycle ensures that plants metabolise all available carbon dioxide from the air

[thesparitan]

@RealOldOne2 "It's been almost a year since I first asked you for your source "evidence" for your 'In the 70's' denier quote. Why haven't you provided that source?"

So you have been waiting for a year and obsessing on so many of his videos for one quote that even if he made up would be completely irrelevant to his over all argument and you think that is not harassment? LOL are you serious?. Tell you what, give me his quote he didn't source, I'll see what I can look up for you.

[EscapeHatchery]

let's get this straight (as in straight jacket), the guy from Penis State (the same hole from whence a liar named Michael Mann, the coward that is suing Timothy Ball) another diddlehead that has a vested interest in cattle stampedes . . . this bozo named Richard Alley is the putz that you're hanging your hat on?!!

one look at his ranting CRAP, in front of student that must give this circus clown the "right answer" in order to graduate, is your guy???

ROTFL!!!!!!!!