Re: Is UraniumCommittee still around? (News: Climate change)


chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
UC wrote:
chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON - A nagging difference in temperature readings that had
raised questions about global warming has been resolved, a panel of
scientists reported Tuesday.

"This significant discrepancy no longer exists because errors in the
satellite and radiosonde data have been identified and corrected,"
researchers said in the first of 21 assessment reports planned by the
U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

The findings show clear evidence of human influences on climate due to
changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols and stratospheric ozone.

How? By what norms? Compared to what? Over the last 4000 years, how do
today's temperatures compare?

This CANNOT be answered, because the data don't exist!

There has been increasing concern about global climate change being
caused by human activity, in particular the release of gases such as
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by automobiles and industrial
activity.

'Increasing concern' is not an argument. I have increasing concerns
about lots of things, but does that make them real? In fact, to admit
to having 'increasing concern' is a frank an admission of bias.
Science has no room for 'increasing concern'!

But while temperature readings at the surface showed this increase,
readings in the atmosphere taken by satellites and radiosondes -
instruments carried by weather balloons - had shown little or no
warming.

Puzzling, no?

There are still some questions about the rate of atmospheric warming in
the tropics, but overall the issue has been settled, said Thomas R.
Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center.

On what basis?

The White House Council on Environmental Quality issued a statement
saying that the climate change program was established to reduce
scientific uncertainties and "we welcome today's report because it
represents success in doing so with respect to temperature trends."

HUH?

Findings of the report include:

· Since the 1950s all data show the Earth's surface and the low and
middle atmosphere have warmed, while the upper stratosphere has cooled.
Those changes were expected from computer models of the effects of
greenhouse warming.

Data collection? Integrity of the data?

· Radiosonde readings for the midtroposphere - the nearest portion
of the atmosphere - show it warming slightly faster than the surface,
also an expected finding.

'Expected finding'? BIAS!

The most recent satellite data also show tropospheric warming,
though there is some disagreement among data sets.

Of course there is.

This may be caused
by uncertainties in the observations, flaws in climate models or a
combination. The researchers think it is a problem with the data
collection.

Bias? Of course, it COULD NOT be with the models. Heaven forbid!

· The observed patterns of change over the past 50 years cannot be
explained by natural processes alone.

What supports this assertion?

The report came a day after the government reported that the greenhouse
gases widely blamed for raising the planet's temperature are still
building up in the atmosphere.

'Widely blamed' by whom?

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday there
was a continuing increase in carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide in the
air last year, though methane leveled off. Overall, NOAA said, its
annual greenhouse gas index "shows a continuing, steady rise in the
amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere."

Sure, right.


ha ha ha. Utter bullshit.

Please critique it. Make sure to include citations to original
literature. Make sure the math you use is valid. Explain your models.

Once you do that, people might start to think you're not an idiot wrt
this topic.

Chris


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