APS hosts online debate on global warming

yguy · #1 07-22-2008, 08:15 PM

APS Physics | FPS | Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered

APS Physics | FPS | A Tutorial on the Basic Physics of Climate Change

Since Hafemeister et al accept a premise (observed global temp increase) not accepted by Monckton, they're pretty much talking past each other, but it's a start.

Zer0th · #2 07-23-2008, 12:18 AM

Contemporaneously, Roy Spencer's just-released testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee seems to support Monckton's argument wrt climate sensitivity.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.c...a-7afbc4ee72f3

Watser? · #3 07-23-2008, 12:22 AM

Gosh, whaddyaknow, there never was any global warming at all, let's all live happily ever after and wait for the glaciers to grow back.

#4 07-23-2008, 01:21 AM

No sour grapes here, just some good ol' styrofoam BBQ. Mmmmmm, good eatin'!

fragment · #5 07-24-2008, 10:25 AM

Just out of curiosity, yguy, do you accept as likely that graph of Monckton's showing 600 million years of global temperatures?

1Samuel8 · #6 07-24-2008, 02:16 PM

600 million years of global temperatures?????
It has to be non-sense. The Earth is no more than 10 thousand years old!

yguy · #7 07-24-2008, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fragment

Just out of curiosity, yguy, do you accept as likely that graph of Monckton's showing 600 million years of global temperatures?

I have no way of knowing. I don't think anyone does, but such agnosticism on that point seems not to be accepted by the scientific community. The only thing I consider likely about it is that it's representative of work done by scientists according to their best understanding.