TheDoc1948
April 5th, 2009, 8:41 pm
In an alleged scholary work, James Hansen of Columbia U., an anthropogenic global warming advocate, failed to even address the importance of the most significant tools of climate change on the earth. They are plate tectonics. volcanism and gravitational flexure of the earth.
Instead, he provided rather anecdotal comments by building hypothetical scenarios leaning towards man caused warming.
Instead, Hansen, et al have made statements regarding an alleged .2 degree C increase per decade appear, by graph, as a massive change to scare the bejabbers out of the casual observer. We cannot measure within a fraction of a degree of accuracy on a global scale! Its pure guesstimation.
Not only that. Hansen wants carbon cap taxes that will only harm the people that have no other choices at this time. He wants local production of food products instead of importing food. Fine. However, does he even have the slightest clue about agriculture? Has he ever seen a wheat field in Kansas and compared that to the area surrounding New York? New York and the surrounding area is not capable of producing the volume of food requisitite to their needs! I hope he doesn't eat any citrus fruit or bread or other grain products as it would be awful to think he is a hypocrite.
Woods Hole Observatory also failed to consider the evidence before them when they reported the eruption of a volcano under the Arctic Ocean. Instead, in a paper they talked about using special techniques to tweak out a measurement of the minute amount of oceanic anthropogenic C02 and then said that man was the major cause of CO2 increases. They failed to recognize the scale of difference between the earth and man on this earth.
They recorded an explosive eruption at 4 km under the ocean in 1999. They recorded the largest swarm of undersea earthquakes ever recorded. Imagine the water pressure on the floor of the ocean at that depth and the eruption was still so explosive that it created a debris field of 10 sq km! They stated this eruption released over 10 times more CO2 than was originally thought from its escape from a magma chamber. This volcano is continuing to erupt 24/7/365, superheating the Arctic Ocean to 752 degrees F at the vents along the Gakkel Ridge. It is continuing to take CO2 out of solution. It is continuing to cause sublimation of methane ice, a much bigger problem.
NOAA stated the CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased since 1900 and they are correct. What they failed to mention is that CO2 levels were almost flat lined until 1999 after the volcanic eruption in the Arctic Ocean with a spike in atmospherice CO2 in an attempt to attribute the massive increase in CO2 to industrialization.
Scientific research is good. Instead, we now have science on a wild goose chase, wasting millions of research dollars attempting the most absurd methods to lower CO2 by artificial methodology. Research should be done to determine the effects on global warming by undersea volcanism and the effects on global cooling by terrestrial volcanism.
Are the above charlatans or do they go where the money is or is it purely political? You make the call. Nonetheless, good science has been left behind, in my opinion.
Instead, he provided rather anecdotal comments by building hypothetical scenarios leaning towards man caused warming.
Instead, Hansen, et al have made statements regarding an alleged .2 degree C increase per decade appear, by graph, as a massive change to scare the bejabbers out of the casual observer. We cannot measure within a fraction of a degree of accuracy on a global scale! Its pure guesstimation.
Not only that. Hansen wants carbon cap taxes that will only harm the people that have no other choices at this time. He wants local production of food products instead of importing food. Fine. However, does he even have the slightest clue about agriculture? Has he ever seen a wheat field in Kansas and compared that to the area surrounding New York? New York and the surrounding area is not capable of producing the volume of food requisitite to their needs! I hope he doesn't eat any citrus fruit or bread or other grain products as it would be awful to think he is a hypocrite.
Woods Hole Observatory also failed to consider the evidence before them when they reported the eruption of a volcano under the Arctic Ocean. Instead, in a paper they talked about using special techniques to tweak out a measurement of the minute amount of oceanic anthropogenic C02 and then said that man was the major cause of CO2 increases. They failed to recognize the scale of difference between the earth and man on this earth.
They recorded an explosive eruption at 4 km under the ocean in 1999. They recorded the largest swarm of undersea earthquakes ever recorded. Imagine the water pressure on the floor of the ocean at that depth and the eruption was still so explosive that it created a debris field of 10 sq km! They stated this eruption released over 10 times more CO2 than was originally thought from its escape from a magma chamber. This volcano is continuing to erupt 24/7/365, superheating the Arctic Ocean to 752 degrees F at the vents along the Gakkel Ridge. It is continuing to take CO2 out of solution. It is continuing to cause sublimation of methane ice, a much bigger problem.
NOAA stated the CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased since 1900 and they are correct. What they failed to mention is that CO2 levels were almost flat lined until 1999 after the volcanic eruption in the Arctic Ocean with a spike in atmospherice CO2 in an attempt to attribute the massive increase in CO2 to industrialization.
Scientific research is good. Instead, we now have science on a wild goose chase, wasting millions of research dollars attempting the most absurd methods to lower CO2 by artificial methodology. Research should be done to determine the effects on global warming by undersea volcanism and the effects on global cooling by terrestrial volcanism.
Are the above charlatans or do they go where the money is or is it purely political? You make the call. Nonetheless, good science has been left behind, in my opinion.