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  • Why the Mail on Sunday was wrong to claim global warming has stopped… Ice cold debate

    Why the Mail on Sunday was wrong to claim global warming has stopped | Environment | guardian.co.uk:

    The Guardian comes back with a strong argument against the David Rose article in the Daily Mail on Oct 20, 2012.  David argues that there has been only a very small increase in global surface temperatures for the 16 years ending in 2011. Not as much, certainly, as expected, by forecasts.

    First, no one anywhere can deny climate change. Higher highs, lower lows, and more extreme temperatures, pretty much everywhere. All of the places I travel (in the US and most of the places I read about and talk to people from) have been exhibiting extremes almost every year. Often the 100-year extremes have been reached a couple times over the last couple years!:-) Ouch.

    The chilling goosebumps should come out on anyone who starts to check out the arctic ice caps. Much of the north pole was navigable this summer by ship, something that no researchers forecasted last century, they expected it about 2050 or later. The recession of the Arctic ice seems to be happening at a faster and faster pace.

    James Hansen gives a simple but visual image of the warming of our planet. See this blog post here.

    Richard Muller, the last skeptic of the climatologists, recently published research that was funded by the right-leaning Koch brothers. (I refuse to call them “conservative” because it debases the word.) In the first report Muller found that there is, in fact, global warming. In the second report he found that humans appear to be almost entirely the cause.

    Carbon Dioxide has increased in the atmosphere in a direct match with the industrialization of the world and also with the increase of the population. But, if you look at the earth’s systems as, well, systems, it is impossible to believe the the massive buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere would have not effect… And that many of those effects would not be adverse.

    Given that we know CO2 has a long persistence, say 100 years, in the atmosphere, it should make a sane man nervous… very nervous.

    Ignoring the facts, is a long distance from being helpful in any way.

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  • “Humans Are Almost Entirely The Cause Of Climate Change” Richard Muller Former Climate Change Denier – YouTube

    “Humans Are Almost Entirely The Cause Of Climate Change” Richard Muller Former Climate Change Denier – YouTube:

    This is a very interesting video/news from MoxNews.

    The Exxon Valdez has an oil spill, has a name change, has a name change, has a shipwreck, has a name change, and is now being dismantled/retired. The wreck, by any other name, is still Valdez.

    NatGas +/-  . . . Not so sure about the Frac’ng story… But hang in there til the end. It is well worth the wait. If it has equal likes and dislikes, then it is probably pretty good!

    Richard A. Muller, the last hold out of global warming, has now come out with a book. Once you remove the noise, the level of CO2 matches perfectly with global warming. It is important to know that humans are the cause, probably the primary cause, of global warming. This is good, kind of. “If we cause it, then there’s something we can do about it.” He didn’t think solar variations, volcanic eruptions, el nino, etc., had longer term impacts. “The carbon dioxide curve was right on.”

    Muller won the MacArthur Genius Grant 30 years ago. He was the last major skeptic on Global Warming. He just completed major research on global warming funded by the Koch Foundation, a ?conservative? group by the Charles G. Koch family, the oil billionair family. Anyone knowing about the funding source, would have been surprised about the results.

    He found last year that Global Warming is real.

    He now has determined that human activity seems to be the predominant cause. The rise in CO2 matches perfectly with the rise in temperatures. Correlation is not causation, but the correlation is very strong.

    Global economic shock to cut back on CO2 emissions? Energy efficiency. And switch away from coal. He suggests NatGas as immediate switch away from coal. NatGas produces 1/3 the level of CO2 as coal. (I’m not so sure about 1/3, I think it is 33% less CO2 than coal per energy equivolent.)

    The big thing is that the controversy of Global warming is dead. It’s a fact. It appears to be perfectly correlated with human factors that generate greenhouse gases (eCO2). So the next debate (or controversy, maybe) is what are we gonna do about it.???

    New version of his book:

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