Friday, June 27, 2014

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http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/10/seven-recent-papers-that-disprove-man.html

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/02/18/5-scientific-reasons-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-n1796423/page/full

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0313irradiance.html

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/07/17/that-scientific-global-warming-consensus-not/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/02/13/peer-reviewed-survey-finds-majority-of-scientists-skeptical-of-global-warming-crisis/

there ya go all copy and past urls


Response:

The first link provided took me to the Hockey Schtick page, but it said the referenced page no longer existed. I would be glad to address what it was they said there, but I have no idea what it is.


Second link:
I've seen this post before. It is really bad. It claims to show five scientific reasons global warming isn't happening (Where are all the guys that insist no denier says global warming doesn't exist?). Let's review them in order:

1. It has not warmed since 1997. Man, cats should have this many lives. No matter how many times you kill this sucker it keeps coming back. Dracula had nothing on this myth. To recap, nine of the ten hottest years have occurred since 2000, including the three hottest (all three hotter than 1998). Also, they always love to leave out the ocean warming, which is 93% of global warming. "Global" warming means the whole globe and cherry-picking only one part doesn't change the reality. See this article here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/02/05/global-warming-has-stopped-how-to-fool-people-using-cherry-picked-climate-data/

2. This one is a double failure. First, it isn't true. And, second, it isn't scientific evidence and is a red herring that deniers like to use to try and distract the argument. It is a whole lot harder for them to buy off scientists, so they make stuff up. I addressed this issue in this post here:

http://dialoguesonglobalwarming.blogspot.com/2014/06/deniers-confirm-consensus.html

3. So what? One year doesn't establish anything, one way or another. Arctic sea ice is down dramatically since 1980, that is what matters. By the way, the sea ice extent this year has been consistently tracking at levels below last years. The melt season has a long way to go yet, but the trend is not supporting denier claims. See the data here:

https://nsidc.org/

4. Climate models are actually quite good. This is another false denier claim. Analyses of the models shows that the 'pause' was accurately modeled, contrary to denier claims. Look at these sites:

http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/ask/2013/climate-modeling.html
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/27/climate-change-model-global-warming

5. This is a 'So what?' point and not scientific evidence. The predictions made by scientists do not have any effect on what nature is doing. But, the point is also incorrect. Many of the things that were forecasted have turned out to happen as predicted.


http://www.wunderground.com/climate/facts/models_are_reliable.asp


Third link:
Solar activity has increased since the 1800s, that is true, but it has also decreased since the 1950s. Take a look at the data here:

http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/sorce/data/tsi-data/


Fourth link:
I'm not sure how this helps disprove man made global warming. Solar storms dump energy in the atmosphere all the time and were doing it before global warming started. You would need to show there has been an increase in the total energy input to the atmosphere over time.


Fifth link:
The consensus has not only been shown to be true, but it has been verified by deniers.

http://dialoguesonglobalwarming.blogspot.com/2014/06/deniers-confirm-consensus.html

But, again, so what? Nature is not going to change what it is doing based on how scientists agree or don't agree. This is not scientific evidence.


Sixth link:
See the my response the fifth link.


Summary:

There was no scientific evidence submitted here. So, it did not come close to proving the point.

5 comments:

  1. So far I've counted one submission that you've answered well Chris - the CO2 not responsible one. In this case making a response by linking to another (alarmist) website does not evidence make. You are meant to be a physics PhD for Christ's sake. Yet you are just linking to bogus alarmist sites as "proof".
    Where's the original sources?
    Where's the peer-reviewed papers?
    Where's the data?

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    1. I would question the assertion that a website that references peer reviewed sources is "alarmist."

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    2. You are free to question. You'd be wrong. It's the easiest thing in the world to mention a few peer-reviewed studies that support your assertion and ignore the ones that don't. That's what Skeptical Science, and Wattsupwiththat, have been doing for years.

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  2. Proof. There is no proof.
    No proof that it is either man made or natural.
    There are indications, but no proof.
    Albert Einstein's general (and special) relativity theory has not been proven either. And most likely will not, if ever, be proven.
    There has been experiments and observations that the theory predixcts, but that is merely indications, and not proof.

    For example.
    The earth is the center of the solar system.
    They had models that could show the mechanics behind the movements and could use it to predict future placement of neighboring planets.
    We now know that that was wrong.
    But back then, it made sense. They had a working model.
    And so it is with global warming. You can make indications that shows wether it is man made pr not, depending on how you chose to present the data.
    But that in itself is no proof.

    And so your challenge is silly.
    Maybe when we get a unified theory of everything and are able to predict future events based on that, it might reveal wether human input is large or small enough to be of any importance.

    With regards;
    DQ

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  3. I want to congratulate you Dr. Keating for make this important issue alive and interesting
    I am psychologist and I want to approach this as such and want to point out three relevant factors that might affecting global warming.
    Environmental factors as the human race is larger and emission of CO2 is more than ever is heating up the earth environment. We are also destroying the outer layer of the atmosphere such as thinning of the Ozone layer that is a fact due to human activity and that is affecting global warming.
    Secondly we have the sun rays that push the earth away from the sun. The stronger the sun rays will initially heat the earth and then the earth will move further out and then it will ultimately cause colder climate again.
    Thirdly we have to acknowledge the fact of the cold black rays coming from the black holes. These rays keep the earth in balance towards the sun. Thus the gravity is not pulling force from the sun it is a combination of pushing force from the sun and the black hole.
    Sun rays to be initiated in fusion on the surface of the sun thus the heat on the sun is on the surface and the core is not that hot. The black rays are made of fission that dissolves the sunrays and indeed every matter and send out rays that are faster than the speed of light as can be seen that the daylight in the morning is slower than the darkening at night, and that will explain the shadow even in broad daylight. That can be easily measured.
    We have therefore to accept the facts:
    1. that gravity is not pulling force.
    2. Black rays travel faster than speed of light
    3. Black holes disolve the light in a fission
    4. The maximum cold is more than -274°
    Climate change can therefore be due to three elements that we only account for two of them that is the environmental changes within our atmosphere and effects from the sun. As we do not account for the cold and black rays we are not in a position to determine the full effects of the other factors.
    I might have sent my thougts earlier, but I have not seen it so I did resend it.
    Again I congratulaty Dr. Keating for this interesting blog.
    Bjorn Vernhardsson psychologist Iceland.

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