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Nuff said.
A truly great book.
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Bjørn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the world environmental situation is getting worse and worse in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist.
However, there is increasing recognition and concern that current research incentives are perverse, and promote behaviors that undermine the very foundations of science. Under the guise of altruism and independence, the self-serving, self-promoting nature of academic science today is typically neither declared nor acknowledged. The dispassionate, objective analysis and presentation of data is frequently lost, as results are seen as personal (“my data”) and subservient to a personal or political agenda. As a consequence, scientists are losing their authority to speak, genuine experts are often disparaged and ignored, and our society is diminished.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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First of all, what is your proof that climate scientists are covering up the truth? Secondly, have you taken into account that fossil fuel companies have the incentive to deny climate change? Thirdly, do you not realize that oil companies can pay these scientists more than what they're already making?
You say the Oil companies have an incentive to deny climate change, (I am sure you mean Human caused climate change, but they are not the same thing.),First of all, what is your proof that climate scientists are covering up the truth? Secondly, have you taken into account that fossil fuel companies have the incentive to deny climate change? Thirdly, do you not realize that oil companies can pay these scientists more than what they're already making?
You say the Oil companies have an incentive to deny climate change, (I am sure you mean Human caused climate change, but they are not the same thing.),
yet what is their incentive? Do you think people will use less finished fuel products if AGW is real?
AGW is very real, but also of no concern! But how can both ideas in my statement be correct?
The stated range of predicted warming from doubling the CO2 level, has been 1.5 to 4.5 C for the last 40 years.
If the ECS for 2XCO2 is between 1.5 and 2 C, as many studies have found, then CO2 emissions are not of much concern.
Back to the oil companies for a second, they do not sell oil, they sell dense energy containers known as finished fuels products.
We know the products as gallons of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
They have vast infrastructure for the refining and distribution of these products.
But there is no requirement, that these finished fuel products be made from oil, that simply happens to be the most
profitable feedstock at the moment. There are other choices that can make and distribute carbon neutral fuel, with the same
infrastructure.
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If Humanity is to move forward in a sustainable fashion, we will need some form of energy storage
as dense as what we get from oil.
Solar is fine, wind has some technical issues, but neither match the duty cycle of our actual electricity demand.Right, I did mean human caused climate change. Their incentive is to deny it so that people don't turn towards alternative energy.
Wind and solar are growing on exponential growth curves, so they seem to be fine sources of energy. If energy density is what you're concerned about, nuclear power is even better than fossil fuels.
Nuff said.
Deniers, explained.
Nuff said.
A truly great book.
Their Figure [...] predicted cooling of Northern Hemisphere temperatures through 2027.
New NOAA forecast suggests current El Niño will fade fast, and be replaced by a strong cooling La Niña this year ... If it holds, it suggests a big cooling event ahead.
A year ago a different paper predicted colder times were coming to the North Atlantic due to natural cycles.
The cooling is consistent with diminished solar activity.
Both Pacific and Atlantic ocean cycles have now entered into the multi-decadal cooling mode. Furthermore, also solar activity is expected to enter a major minimum phase. For the upcoming two decades it is therefore expected that natural climate drivers will contribute cooling to the climate system which may not be fully compensated by anthropogenic warming related to greenhouse gases
Big Chill: ‘Substantial Cooling’ Predicted Within The Next Few Years ... Solar physicist sees global cooling ahead
There goes that scare: Antarctic Peninsula cooling by almost 1 degree
In the second half of the 20th century, the Antarctic Peninsula experienced rapid temperature increases, warming by about half a degree per decade. Nobody mention that in the last 20 years the Antarctic Peninsula cooled by almost 1 degree.
2017 was cooler than 2016, and 2018 will be cooler still. It is already cooler than 1998. Thus, no warming 1998-2018. No end to the cooling yet in sight.
The Pause lasted from 1998 to 2015. That's simply a fact. After an El Niño induced peak in 2016, temperatures have been falling since then. With the sun approaching minimum, cooling is likely to continue.
The reason to ignore the trend is because, with the sun approaching minimum, I believe the historic shift from warming to cooling is happening right now.
Jack Hays is the prime example of the OP ... Here is a small sampling of his push and predictions for cooling ...
2013
2016
2017
2018
2016>2017>2018<El Nino 2019>2020.
So, just to be clear, according to you, we should ignore the inconvenient 2019... but 2020 should be less than 2018 to continue the cooling, right?
So, just to be clear, according to you, we should ignore the inconvenient 2019... but 2020 should be less than 2018 to continue the cooling, right?
I have said from the beginning that the occasional El Nino could pause the cooling. That is what happened in 2019. 2020 will end by being cooler than 2019, thus reinitiating the cooling trend.