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On 21/08/14 20:46, Dennis@home wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. Basically the catch 22 here is that if the cycle was responsible for cooling between WWII and 1970, it would have been reponsible for warming between 1970 and 2000 as well. Either way CO2 AGW is a busted flush. -- Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. €“ Erwin Knoll |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 21/08/14 20:46, Dennis@home wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. Basically the catch 22 here is that if the cycle was responsible for cooling between WWII and 1970, it would have been reponsible for warming between 1970 and 2000 as well. Either way CO2 AGW is a busted flush. Did you like the dramatic graphic allegedly showing 'humidity over the Pacific' that wasn't mentioned at all in the report and had no scale on it? We can expect to see more of the phrase 'Rising Staircase of Warming', although it's never been metioned before and the models (remember them?) never predicted it and no graph has shown it. -- Terry Fields |
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On 22/08/14 09:30, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:48:57 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 21/08/14 20:46, Dennis@home wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. Basically the catch 22 here is that if the cycle was responsible for cooling between WWII and 1970, it would have been reponsible for warming between 1970 and 2000 as well. Another explanation will be along tomorrow. I propose that latent heat of melting of the icecaps and glaciers is absorbing all the heat. Or has that been done already? ;-) Either way CO2 AGW is a busted flush. At one time I was an ardent believer in AGW. Although I haven't changed my view completely, I am becoming increasingly sceptical. The proponents of AGW do seem to be becoming more and more desperate to maintain the theory. If this new idea has substance, such a cycle should be visible in the historical record. After all, En Nino cycles have been known about for decades, so why has this only just come to light. I haven't read the original article, but if the cycle was apparent historically, I'm sure the authors would have highlighted it in the abstract. The actual climate is a chaotic dynamic system - that's becoming apparent - and if that is the case there is no 'cause' of global warming and cooling, and no 'it's cyclic'. It's chaotic with attractors. And it looks like there are two. One is ice age, and t'other is as now. In between it simply wobbles about. Water is the key. There is massive latent heat in water as vapour and ice. Ice forms a massive albedo increase as do clouds. That means ice can, after covering large area, get to be something that stabilises climate at very cold. Likewise once above freezing water vapour acts the other way, to broadly stabilise things within the liquid with vapour phase of water. Water vapour as cloud and warm tropical water as ocean currents are the two main ways the poles are warmed and heat is overall lost. Direct radiation from the surface of the earth represents about half of the actual loss and this is what should be affected by CO2. However the maths gives very small increases for it - less than half a degree for doubling CO2. In order to 'explain' why the late 20th century warming was as it was, the AGW proponents posited an unknown amplification factor and simply multiplied the effect of CO2 by it. They assumed that water vapours in the air would act to increase te greenhouse effect. Tow problems. There was no evidence that it did - hotspots at altitude that would have demonstrated that feedback, failed to appear. And of course that water vapour POSITIVE feedback would have led to an amplification of any other temperature rises or falls so a volcanic eruption causing global cooling should have been far more severe and longer lasting than in fact the data showed. In fact the case seems to be that water feedback is negative. Water acts as a giant thermostat with water vapour rising in a warming climate till it reaches saturation, at which point upper air cloudiness increases as radiation from high up beyond most of the CO2 occurs, the ware becomes ice, clouds form and rain hail sleet and snow falls. Likewise a lot of cold fresh water at the poles tends to block the ocean current circulation, leading to less heat in the poles and thus returning ice to the poles. Imagine a room with half a dozen thermostats some of which open windows, or switch on fans, all very very slow to operate and you have some idea of the nature of the beast. If the climate were as unstable as the warmist claim, we wouldn't be where we are now. -- Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. €“ Erwin Knoll |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The actual climate is a chaotic dynamic system - that's becoming apparent Strange how long it's taking to become apparent to climatologists, given than the butterfly effect is probably the only thing related to chaos TMITS could name. |
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On 22/08/14 10:21, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote: The actual climate is a chaotic dynamic system - that's becoming apparent Strange how long it's taking to become apparent to climatologists, given than the butterfly effect is probably the only thing related to chaos TMITS could name. it is frightening to understand how the power of government money can bias all research into giving the politically correct answer. Left leaning politics loves climate change. It gives an excuse for government to have more power, as does global terrorism. Industry loves climate change. Its an excuse to get government money for building and supplying useless hardware. The oil industry loves climate change. As long as they can ensure than only useless technology is supplied, their sales and profits are unaffected. The mainstream media loves climate change. Scary stories no matter how untrue, sell newspapers and improve ratings. The general tendency therefore becomes what I call living in a tissue of lies and a climate of fear, and no one seeks to challenge it, because they are too scared to shoot the sacred cow. The only people worse off are ordinary citizens, but they have no power, just a vote every 5 years. And since both parties have been bought lock stock and stinking barrel by the same people with the same money, that makes no difference. Unless they vote UKIP of course. UKIP hasn't been bought - yet.. -- Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. €“ Erwin Knoll |
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Dennis@home wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. As long as they can keep people thinking of it, and referring to it, as a 'pause' rather than a 'stop', they can get away with it for as long as they like. |
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On 22/08/2014 11:35, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Dennis@home wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. As long as they can keep people thinking of it, and referring to it, as a 'pause' rather than a 'stop', they can get away with it for as long as they like. Not if the Russians are right and we are heading into at least half a century of global cooling. -- Colin Bignell |
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![]() "Dennis@home" wrote in message web.com... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. Straws being clutched at I think. I've never bought into the idea of man made climate change, as far as I'm concerned the climate has been changing constantly since the Earth was formed, with or without humankind to affect anything. There are possibly a few good things that may have come out of the whole sorry saga, recycling is one of them - I can't see the point of burying steel cans and glass bottles just to make more, if it is done properly, it must be cheaper to re-use them. Advances in solar energy is possibly another, certainly not for domestic uses, but certainly for powering small appliances and recharging batteries etc. Cleaner air can't be a bad thing FWIW, I don't think they will ever admit that they were wrong, the climate is constantly in a state of flux and always will be, and nothing can be done by humankind to make it better or worse for our purpose, we either adapt to the environment or die off, just the same as every other living organism that has ever existed. |
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"Phil L" writes: "Dennis@home" wrote in message web.com... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. Straws being clutched at I think. I've never bought into the idea of man made climate change, as far as I'm concerned the climate has been changing constantly since the Earth was formed, with or without humankind to affect anything. There are possibly a few good things that may have come out of the whole sorry saga, recycling is one of them - I can't see the point of burying steel cans and glass bottles just to make more, if it is done properly, it must be cheaper to re-use them. Advances in solar energy is possibly another, certainly not for domestic uses, but certainly for powering small appliances and recharging batteries etc. Cleaner air can't be a bad thing +1 Also good to have forced more careful consideration and use of fossil fuels, because they become increasingly more expensive to extract. FWIW, I don't think they will ever admit that they were wrong, the climate I think the final step will be to claim it's doing something which is not provable (in any reasonable timescale), such as heating the really deep ocean where we've never had any temperature monitoring, so it will be impossible to disprove. is constantly in a state of flux and always will be, and nothing can be done by humankind to make it better or worse for our purpose, we either adapt to the environment or die off, just the same as every other living organism that has ever existed. Since the last ice age, the earth has not yet got as warm as it did between the previous ones, so we should be expecting it to get warmer. BTW, tonight they are forecasting temperatures will go lower than they ever have since records began, for this time of year. ;-) -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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On 23/08/2014 18:09, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
BTW, tonight they are forecasting temperatures will go lower than they ever have since records began, for this time of year.;-) Says 7C at 06:00 tomorrow morning - is yours lower or is that a record breaking low? -- Rod |
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polygonum writes: On 23/08/2014 18:09, Andrew Gabriel wrote: BTW, tonight they are forecasting temperatures will go lower than they ever have since records began, for this time of year.;-) Says 7C at 06:00 tomorrow morning - is yours lower or is that a record breaking low? ISTR somewhere was predicted to be 2C, but I wasn't paying enough attention to remember where that was - probably Scotland somewhere. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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On 23/08/2014 19:18, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article , polygonum writes: On 23/08/2014 18:09, Andrew Gabriel wrote: BTW, tonight they are forecasting temperatures will go lower than they ever have since records began, for this time of year.;-) Says 7C at 06:00 tomorrow morning - is yours lower or is that a record breaking low? ISTR somewhere was predicted to be 2C, but I wasn't paying enough attention to remember where that was - probably Scotland somewhere. The other day (think it was Thursday, but could be a day or two out) we actually got a touch of frost on very exposed parts like tops of sheds - somewhere around 05:30. No - I was not the observer, merely reporting onwards. This is in Bucks. -- Rod |
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:26:56 +0100, polygonum wrote:
On 23/08/2014 18:09, Andrew Gabriel wrote: BTW, tonight they are forecasting temperatures will go lower than they ever have since records began, for this time of year.;-) Says 7C at 06:00 tomorrow morning - is yours lower or is that a record breaking low? Here (S. Northants) we did have just a frost a few Augusts ago, end of August IIRC, so a few days yet... -- Peter. The gods will stay away whilst religions hold sway |
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PeterC wrote:
Here (S. Northants) we did have just a frost a few Augusts ago, end of August IIRC, so a few days yet... Ground frost in Lincolnshire last night. |
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On 22/08/14 16:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
Of course not. They'll just say that *because* of all the Greenwash of the 90s and 00s, we averted a catastrophe. In other news, the spray I bought in the market a few years ago is still working at keeping elephants out of my garden. As long as I remember to do it once a week. I was preparing to vent the gas out of my freezer. That would have kept quite a number of elephants out of my garden..... -- Adrian C |
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Adrian C wrote:
On 22/08/14 16:31, Jethro_uk wrote: Of course not. They'll just say that *because* of all the Greenwash of the 90s and 00s, we averted a catastrophe. In other news, the spray I bought in the market a few years ago is still working at keeping elephants out of my garden. As long as I remember to do it once a week. I was preparing to vent the gas out of my freezer. That would have kept quite a number of elephants out of my garden..... Want to know something funny, it is an offence to vent 134a (Tetrafluoroethane)to atmosphere from your auto air con,(big fine), you can buy cans of stuff to blow the rubbish off your keyboard or freeze things (electronics) and often it is 134a, http://www.falconsafety.com/wp-conte...VHaqn5BXTvQKS0 http://tinyurl.com/o6byu2x It was once used as a propellant in asthma puffers. |
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On 2014-08-21 19:46:56 +0000, Dennis@home said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. I thought science was welcome on a DIY forum. Should be renamed DIYS - do it yourself science. E. |
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On 24/08/14 22:58, eastender wrote:
On 2014-08-21 19:46:56 +0000, Dennis@home said: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. I thought science was welcome on a DIY forum. Should be renamed DIYS - do it yourself science. Science is welcome. The question is how long ago AGW the hypothesis ceased to be science and became a tool for increasing government power and making ****loads of money. You will have noticed that people woth money always manage to take more from people with very little, and governments are ideal to make this happen faster and in a planned way. When the little people have been bled dry, then essentially they will be surplus to requirements. One can imagine a disease being set loose for which there exists an expensive inoculation. Leaving the very rich in a rather nice world from which all the not very rich at all have been eliminated. After all, with automation, who needs working people? E. -- Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. €“ Erwin Knoll |
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On 2014-08-24 22:24:35 +0000, The Natural Philosopher said:
On 24/08/14 22:58, eastender wrote: On 2014-08-21 19:46:56 +0000, Dennis@home said: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. I thought science was welcome on a DIY forum. Should be renamed DIYS - do it yourself science. Science is welcome. The question is how long ago AGW the hypothesis ceased to be science and became a tool for increasing government power and making ****loads of money. Wow - I thought these loony conspiracy theories were exclusivey owned by the American far right. The infection must be spreading. E. |
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On 24/08/14 23:32, eastender wrote:
On 2014-08-24 22:24:35 +0000, The Natural Philosopher said: On 24/08/14 22:58, eastender wrote: On 2014-08-21 19:46:56 +0000, Dennis@home said: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28870988 Now they are trying to string it out for another decade before they admit they are wrong. I thought science was welcome on a DIY forum. Should be renamed DIYS - do it yourself science. Science is welcome. The question is how long ago AGW the hypothesis ceased to be science and became a tool for increasing government power and making ****loads of money. Wow - I thought these loony conspiracy theories were exclusivey owned by the American far right. The infection must be spreading. No dear, reality is spreading. Judge a man, or a group, not by what they say, but what they do. If you really think people are not lying to you on the media 95% of the time you must be green and wet behind the ears. E. -- Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. €“ Erwin Knoll |
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On 2014-08-25 08:14:23 +0000, Chris Hogg said:
there's a significant body who don't accept it. No they are not significant. That's the point. E. |
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On 2014-08-25 11:03:00 +0000, Chris Hogg said:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:35:21 +0100, eastender wrote: On 2014-08-25 08:14:23 +0000, Chris Hogg said: there's a significant body who don't accept it. No they are not significant. That's the point. E. Your opinion. Not everyone's. This link references a long list of eminent atmospheric and meteorological scientists from all over the world who question the AGW theory. http://tinyurl.com/m6zvdu8 They may be right, they may be wrong, but to describe them as 'not significant' is blinkered and unscientific, and ignores their academic status within their own institutions. By all means keep posting propaganda funded by American conservatives bankrolled by Exxon etc - that's what they want you to do. E. |
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On 25/08/14 12:18, eastender wrote:
On 2014-08-25 11:03:00 +0000, Chris Hogg said: On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:35:21 +0100, eastender wrote: On 2014-08-25 08:14:23 +0000, Chris Hogg said: there's a significant body who don't accept it. No they are not significant. That's the point. E. Your opinion. Not everyone's. This link references a long list of eminent atmospheric and meteorological scientists from all over the world who question the AGW theory. http://tinyurl.com/m6zvdu8 They may be right, they may be wrong, but to describe them as 'not significant' is blinkered and unscientific, and ignores their academic status within their own institutions. By all means keep posting propaganda funded by American conservatives bankrolled by Exxon etc - that's what they want you to do. E. sigh. Another conspiracy theory nutcase... -- Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. €“ Erwin Knoll |
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On 2014-08-25 12:43:36 +0000, Chris Hogg said:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:18:23 +0100, eastender wrote: On 2014-08-25 11:03:00 +0000, Chris Hogg said: On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:35:21 +0100, eastender wrote: On 2014-08-25 08:14:23 +0000, Chris Hogg said: there's a significant body who don't accept it. No they are not significant. That's the point. E. Your opinion. Not everyone's. This link references a long list of eminent atmospheric and meteorological scientists from all over the world who question the AGW theory. http://tinyurl.com/m6zvdu8 They may be right, they may be wrong, but to describe them as 'not significant' is blinkered and unscientific, and ignores their academic status within their own institutions. By all means keep posting propaganda funded by American conservatives bankrolled by Exxon etc - that's what they want you to do. E. Oh, you silly man! Me silly? In what way is Climate Depot not run by CFACT (Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow): "Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) is an anti-environmentalist pressure group founded by David Rothbard and Craig Rucker in 1985. They both have the academic backgrounds, lifestyles, addresses and PR Guru mugshots of serious lobbyists. Three of the primary funders of CFACT are the Carthage Foundation, Exxon Mobil, and the Sarah Scaife Foundation. A whole host of prominent deniers have sat on its board of advisers at some time, including Sallie Baliunas, Roger Bate, E. Calvin Beisner, Michael Fumento, Sherwood B. Idso, Patrick Michaels, and Frederick Seitz. The organization funds Climate Depot, Marc Morano's online denialist outlet. In 2009, they helped to organize the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, the denialist response to the United Nations' Copenhagen Summit." As I said, it's OK to believe in that the vast majority of the world's scientists and governments are out to get you but if you haven't done so I think you should look at where you get your beliefs from. Bear in mind they don't just lie about climate change but also about many other enviromental protection issues. Meanwhile, I'll post a method of making a DIY tinfoil hat. E. |
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On 2014-08-25 14:31:26 +0000, Chris Hogg said:
With an intemperate rant like that, you make my point. No consideration of the arguments, whether predictions based on Milankovic cycles are valid or not, or whether the climate is or is not just a chaotic system with attractors. Just abuse of those who hold a differing view about GW. Silly man. You should try and be more objective. You can have a 'differing view' - but once you try and call it science you might just as well sacrifice a chicken to see if AGW is real for all the worth your view has. All you've done is confirmed you're in the virtual pocket of the industrial polluters and anarchist American liberterians. E. |
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