The Global Warming Deniers got their investigation, which turned up jack squat.
Link here.
Pardon me if I don't hold my breathe waiting for any apologies from the Global Warming Deniers.
On a related note, this Monday, I was mowing my lawn. This Thursday, I was shoveling my driveway. In February. Totally normal.
Link here.
A Commerce Department inspector general investigation into the “Climategate” controversy finds that government scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration did not manipulate climate change data.
Pardon me if I don't hold my breathe waiting for any apologies from the Global Warming Deniers.
On a related note, this Monday, I was mowing my lawn. This Thursday, I was shoveling my driveway. In February. Totally normal.
ApexNerd,
ReplyDeleteActually, it is pretty normal. I've lived here 43 years and have often seen a spell of warm weather followed by snow...Don't forget, winter is not over until March 21st by our reckoning and it's not over till it's over by nature's.
As to the "Global Warming Deniers," I don't think the discussion is about whether, it is more about why.
The question no one addresses is, "So what?" Maybe a couple of degrees of rise is good. Maybe not. We don't spend much time trying to find out.
The last time there was a change of five degrees of the earth's mean surface temperature, the planet experienced a mass extinction that took out about half of the species on the planet.
ReplyDeleteThe last time there was a change of ten degrees of the earth's mean surface temperature, the planet experienced a mass extinction that took out about 90% of the species on the planet.
So, that question has actually been addressed.
Hi Jack,
ReplyDeleteThere's been an immense amount of work on the impacts of climate change, and what will have to be done to adapt to it. You can read the Western Governors' Climate Adaptation Priorities Report (2010) at a link from this page: http://www.westgov.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=299:climate-adaptation-report-2010&catid=222
There's a link to a report on the impacts of climate change on Washington's economy (2009) from this page: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/economic_impacts.htm
"The report identifies the following impacts to Washington’s economy:
•Increased energy costs
•Reduced salmon populations
•Coastal and storm damage
•Reduced food production
•Increased wildland fire costs
•Increased public health costs
•Lost recreation"
And so forth. But I think that you know all this. Haven't you cited reduced greenhouse gas emissions as a reason to approve your clients' projects in the past?
Dear repliers to this blog,
ReplyDelete1. Could we have some scientific precision here? I mean, this is a scientific matter. When you say "degree", why not specify if it's Celsius or Fahrenheit? (What's a factor of two between friends?)
2. As for attribution of the consensus rise in temperature, does anyone dispute the greenhouse effect from infrared gasses in the upper troposphere?
3. Does anyone dispute that CO2 is a greenhouse gas?
4.Does anyone dispute that the rise in CO2 (from pre-industrial 280 parts per million, to > 350 today) is due to human use of fossil fuels?
It seems to be automatic for people to discuss climate change as a matter of opinion, like whether you like some author's writings. It's not opinion- it's ascertainable by scientific method. And that method starts with a lot of work and study- not highly regarded in an age of sound-bites.
Abe Jacobson
Bellingham
I didn't clarify that I was referring to temperature as measured in Celsius (the lingua franca of measurement in the scientific community being the metric system)...
ReplyDeleteAnd since this investigation was called for by Global Warming Denier... Senator Inhofe from Oklahoma... and the investigation clears scientists of wrongdoing, then there appears to be no official dispute in play.