tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post3710554867940177059..comments2023-11-03T06:35:48.003-05:00Comments on Shark and Shepherd: Climate convert remains in sinRick Esenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-52120052385374026062012-08-07T10:40:48.334-05:002012-08-07T10:40:48.334-05:00Science. It works. Evidence can change your mind...Science. It works. Evidence can change your mind. <br /><br />And the Professor runs for the religious rhetoric... where faith and feelings rule the roost.Display Namehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842340986220388709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-72609904770068483342012-08-03T09:38:25.510-05:002012-08-03T09:38:25.510-05:00Well, here's how Muller started the column:
&...Well, here's how Muller started the column:<br /><br />"CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.<br /><br />"My total turnaround, in such a short time, is the result of careful and objective analysis by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which I founded with my daughter Elizabeth. Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases."<br /><br />For a global-warming skeptic to take solace in this requires a good deal of creative thinking. Kind of like Democrats who, despite the results, still think the recall was a good idea.Marc Eisenhttp://meisenstories.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-55500504121138935462012-08-03T06:41:59.237-05:002012-08-03T06:41:59.237-05:00Great post, that hit all the major problems I have...Great post, that hit all the major problems I have with global warming alarmism.<br /><br />The idea that the climate we have currently is the "right" or "best" one and that increasing it (or decreasing it, for that matter) will somehow send human civilization into ruin is beyond unsupported, it's ludicrous.<br /><br />I'm always amazed when I see historical charts of temperatures - they show the exact same patterns, including the big spike, that we are seeing now. Yes, this current spike looks higher, but the idea that we should be comparing our current method of measuring temperature (millions and millions of data points around the world) vs. the way we measure what the temperature was thousands and thousands of years ago (minimal samples from minimal locations) is bad science.<br /><br />Likewise with CO2 densities. Look at current CO2 densities around the world and you'll see substantial variation around the world and even at the same location over time. Yet they want us to believe that samples from the incredibly few places on earth that have stayed cold enough for thousands and thousands of years to maintain constant ice can teach us something significant about global CO2 levels way back when.<br /><br />And why the obsession over surface temperatures? Don't the varying temperatures throughout the vertical atmosphere matter? The warmth of the oceans throughout their depths? Even underground temperatures?<br /><br />Mere day-to-day meteorological science and prediction isn't terribly good. They can't accurately predict whether it's going to rain on my house more than an hour (if that) away. We get percentage chances. The idea that these scientists can accurately predict what the global average temperature will keep doing over the next few years, even, is laughable.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287196327536226744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-67549394830906240982012-08-02T20:50:02.721-05:002012-08-02T20:50:02.721-05:00Yes, climate supporters have "behaved badly&q...Yes, climate supporters have "behaved badly". But do you professor ever provide any balance?<br /><br />And before anyone complains about the sources, note the professor linked to two prominent conservative blogs.<br /><br />www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2010/09/dirty_money.html<br /><br />thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/09/27/206784/dirty-money-oil-companies-special-interest-polluters-spend-millions-to-kill-climate-bil/<br /><br />Here is an interesting twist...note the group responsible for the study's funding.<br /><br />www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/29/climate-change-sceptics-change-mindAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com