Michael Mann: Harper's War on Science
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No, anthropogenic contributions are the main driver. You can do pretty simple math to determine that. Calculate the mass of CO2 emitted since the start of the industrial revolution, calcualte the mass of CO2 in the atmosphere in, say, 1860 and now, and it's pretty clear.
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Not only that, but we're in a period where La Niña and solar cycle should be cooling the planet and global temps are still rising. Also, atmospheric temps don't show the entire picture as most of the warming is absorbed in oceans and ocean temps have risen significantly.
Holy crap you're thick...the hockey stick didn't project future temperature change. And as a scientist, I'm very comfortable with things like variability. Please show me where any scientific finding ever claimed that man made climate change requires monotonic increases in temperature.
Please tell me you actually understand that you're arguing a straw man.
The hockey stick is a temperature reconstruction, not a temperature projection. And 15 years of flat air temperatures doesn't mean what you think it does.
As a scientist, I know that the last 15 years doesn't mean a reconstruction of past climate is incorrect. That's just stupid to claim that it does.
Sooooooo the hydrothermal vents in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Saanich Bay and Georgia Strait aren't an issue for ocean acidity?
yes or no?
As a scientist I call a hockey stick a hockey stick and bell curve a bell curve.
The Icelandic volcano that erupted over a 4 day period negated every effort made to control CO2 emissions in the last 5 years... That one single, 4 day event.
Sorry, but I just can't believe that the combined major events, in addition to the ongoing ones represent less than anthro sources.
3.5 Million of them on the Ocean floor but not a single one being monitored for potential contributions to GHGs.
They look even cooler on the inside and the minerals they pump out, Oh my goodness how I'd love to mine those suckersoBlack Smokers.
Fortunately, black smokers only emit rainbows and cinnamon buns, nothing caustic, toxic or dare I say, acidic.
A study and theory.
No sulphuric acid? NOAA added scrubbers?
Playing hockey.
A bell curve is named for its shape, similar to the hockey stick graph. If you want to be technical, a bell curve is a Gaussian distribution, and the hockey stick graph is just a time series.
It's not surprising that the powers that be are very very reluctant to forget about the insane notion of anthropocentric destruction of the planet. It's their best excuse for the human cull already underway.
The CO2 nuts have lost it completely and all round the world their material is getting dafter and dafter as they are pushed in to the desperately hilarious regions of inconsequential muttering and babble.