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We would like to take just a brief moment here to salute Pete DuPont for his article (attached) in today's WSJ referencing Howard Bloom's educational work as it appeared in the Journal on 12/17/09 and attached to our 12/21 post: "Climate Change: A Galactic Perspective". DuPont provides a "click on" for that article in his article.
Bottom line: we've had 20 sudden "global warmings" in our history. None had anything to do with driving low mileage vehicles. And, while the planet has done nothing but "cool" over the past 10 years (some would say 15), it is inevitable that there will be sudden global warming periods in our future (perhaps an 18 degree warm up over 20 years, for example). None of that will be caused by anything we did.
This does not preclude efforts we would support involving being responsible conservators of the planet thru the use of nuclear power, wind energy, and, eventually, effective solar power. Cutting down on pollution is just the responsible thing to do. But, those efforts don't come ahead of starving children or responsible economic growth.
It would appear that there is a general consensus that Copenhagen failed ("Green Ink: China Sank the Climate Deal" - WSJ 12/23/09) whether one is for or against the climate change agenda. Even the very developing countries that helped draft the "agreement" (and we use that term advisedly) are now criticizing it.
Howard Bloom has helped us to understand responsible climate science. His work is by far superior to all the noise surrounding climate nonsense.
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I'm confused by the claim that the planet has done nothing but cool for the past 10-15 years.
ReplyDeleteFor example, a look here:
http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/091208165914.4rilf938.html
Shows this quote: "The decade 2000-2009 is very likely to be the warmest on record, warmer than the 1990s, which were in turn warmer than the 1980s," WMO secretary-general Michel Jarraud told reporters.
Or here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213101419.htm
The top 11 warmest years recorded were in the past 13 years. We're about three quarters of a degree hotter now than the average from 1961-1990.
While 1998 was hot, and perhaps anything less than that represents 'cooling', couldn't 1998 have been an anomaly? When looking at all the data, rather than that single talking point, it's clear that we're hotter now, speaking in broad terms, than we ever have been.
One outlier does not break a trend.
Craig - Take a look at our 1/6 post: "Polar Bears 2". My personal opinion is that any "science" that allows defensible positions to be taken either way (climate science) isn't very precise. I am highly influenced by the "galactic" perspective we referred to in our year end post because it relies on the physics of the earth's formation and what's happened since. And, I don't like the "attack science" that the East Anglia folks used to try to discredit those who disagreed with them. It shows a basic insecurity about their own data.
ReplyDeleteI agree, regardless of global warming is occuring or not we still need to conserve, and more importantly focus on the bigger issues.
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