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The Age of Misinformation What they haven’t told you about Climate Change!: The Age of Misinformation What they haven’t told you about Climate Change! The Unusual Weather is more Unusual than Usual.
Heidelbg,Leipz.Ore.: Heidelbg,Leipz.Ore. Opponents of Global Greenhouse Warming
The Heidelberg Appeal;
4000 scientists among them 63 Nobel Prize Winners
The Leipzig Declaration: 110 Climatologists and Meteorologists
The Oregon Petition: 17,000 scientists worldwide
Statements by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming; 47 US Atmospheric scientists
With global warming the consensus was reached before the research had even begun.: With global warming the consensus was reached before the research had even begun. Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor of Atmospheric Physics and member of the IPCC
Hypothesis: Hypothesis
CO2 is a greenhouse gas that traps heat
Atmospheric CO2 would increase from human activity
Because of the increase of CO2 global warming would occur
It would continue to rise as long as humans continued to add CO2
Climate is always changing: Climate is always changing Naturally
The focus is on temperature
The focus is only on warming
What happens if it cools?
What about precipitation?
Cooling: Cooling It is cold fact; the global cooling presents humankind with the most important social, political and adaptive challenge we have had to deal with for ten thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we make concerning it is of ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children our species.
Lowell Ponte,The Cooling, 1976
Just 30 Years Ago: Just 30 Years Ago “This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.”
Lowell Ponte, The Cooling, 1976.
Slide16: Arctic Ice
8 May 2006
ATM composition: ATM composition
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Estimated 750-820 Gigatons (I Billion tons)
Total human contribution is 6 Gigatons
We remove 3 Gigatons mostly through agriculture, net contribution is 3 Gigatons per year
Error of the estimate is 70 Gigatons (750 - 820)
Humans add only 4.2% of the error (3/70 x100 = 4.2 )
Antarctic ice core records showing temperature and CO2 changes for last 420,000 thousand years. : Antarctic ice core records showing temperature and CO2 changes for last 420,000 thousand years.
22K yrsC/T LAG: 22K yrsC/T LAG
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it. Pierre Gallois : If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it. Pierre Gallois