We’ve all been subjected to the incessant “97% of scientists agree …global warming…blah blah” meme, which is nothing more than another statistical fabrication by John Cook and his collection of “anything for the cause” zealots. As has been previously pointed out on WUWT, when you look at the methodology used to reach that number, the veracity of the result falls apart, badly. You see, it turns out that Cook simply employed his band of “Skeptical Science” (SkS) eco-zealots to rate papers, rather than letting all authors of the papers rate their own work (Note: many authors weren’t even contacted and their papers wrongly rated, see here). The result was that the “97% consensus” was a survey of the SkS raters beliefs and interpretations, rather than a survey of the authors opinions of their own science abstracts. Essentially it was pal-review by an activist group with a strong bias towards a particular outcome as demonstrated by the name “the consensus project”.
In short, it was a lie of omission enabled by a “pea and thimble” switch Steve McIntyre so often points out about climate science.
Most people who read the headlines touted by the unquestioning press had no idea that this was a collection of Skeptical Science raters opinions rather than the authors assessment of their own work. Readers of news stories had no idea they’d been lied to by John Cook et al².
So, while we’ll be fighting this lie for years, one very important bit of truth has emerged that will help put it into its proper place of propaganda, rather than science. A recent real survey conducted of American Meteorological Society members has blown Cook’s propaganda paper right out of the water.
The survey is titled:
Meteorologists’ views about global warming: A survey of American Meteorological Society professional members¹
Abstract
Meteorologists and other atmospheric science experts are playing important roles in helping society respond to climate change. However, members of this professional community are not unanimous in their views of climate change, and there has been tension among members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) who hold different views on the topic. In response, AMS created the Committee to Improve Climate Change Communication to explore and, to the extent possible, resolve these tensions. To support this committee, in January 2012 we surveyed all AMS members with known email addresses, achieving a 26.3% response rate (n=1,854). In this paper we tested four hypotheses: (1) perceived conflict about global warming will be negatively associated–and (2) climate expertise, (3) liberal political ideology, and (4) perceived scientific consensus will be positively associated–with (a) higher personal certainty that global warming is happening, (b) viewing the global warming observed over the past 150 years as mostly human-caused, and (c) perception of global warming as harmful. All four hypotheses were confirmed. Expertise, ideology, perceived consensus and perceived conflict were all independently related to respondents’ views on climate, with perceived consensus and political ideology being most strongly related. We suggest that AMS should: attempt to convey the widespread scientific agreement about climate change; acknowledge and explore the uncomfortable fact that political ideology influences the climate change views of meteorology professionals; refute the idea that those who do hold non-majority views just need to be “educated” about climate change; continue to deal with the conflict among members of the meteorology community.
From the abstract, it is clear the authors didn’t expect to find this result, as they were likely expecting something close to the fabled 97%. They give this away when they advise in the abstract steps that can be taken to “correct” the low number reported.
The introduction says:
Research conducted to date with meteorologists and other atmospheric scientists has shown that they are not unanimous in their views of climate change. In a survey of earth scientists, Doran and Zimmerman (2009) found that while a majority of meteorologists surveyed are convinced humans have contributed to global warming (64%), this was a substantially smaller majority than that found among all earth scientists (82%). Another survey, by Farnsworth and Lichter (2009), found that 83% of meteorologists surveyed were convinced human-induced climate change is occurring, again a smaller majority than among experts in related areas such as ocean sciences (91%) and geophysics (88%).
So clearly, none of the work to date matches Cook’s pal reviewed activist effort.
The most important question in the AMS survey was done in two parts:
“Is global warming happening? If so, what is its cause?”
Respondent options were:
- Yes: Mostly human
- Yes: Equally human and natural
- Yes: Mostly natural
- Yes: Insufficient evidence [to determine cause]
- Yes: Don’t know cause
- Don’t know if global warming is happening
- Global warming is not happening
Here’s the kicker:
Just 52 percent of survey respondents answered Yes: Mostly human.
The other 48 percent either questioned whether global warming is happening or would not ascribe human activity as the primary cause.
Here is table 1 from the paper which shows the entire population of respondents (click to enlarge):
Note the difference between those who cite some climate publications and those who don’t. People are often most convinced of their own work, while others looking in from the outside, not so much. As we know, the number of “climate scientists” versus others tends to be a smaller clique.
Dr.. Judith Curry writes:
Look at the views in column 1, then look at the % in the rightmost column: 52% state the the warming since 1850 is mostly anthropogenic. One common categorization would categorize the other 48% as ‘deniers’.
So, the inconvenient truth here is that about half of the world’s largest organization of meteorological and climate professionals don’t think humans are “mostly” the cause of Anthropogenic Global Warming the rest will probably get smeared as “deniers”
That’s a long way from Cook’s “97% consensus” lie.
References:
[1] Meteorologists’ views about global warming: A survey of American Meteorological Society professional members doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00091.1 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00091.1
[2] Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article).
Also note that only 4% say it is not happening.
But, but ,but….Weather persons aren’t real climate scientists, they just read from the cue board and make sure they floss before broadcasts! and run flashy blogs!!
just in case, /sarc
Bet there are no respondents from the UK Met O.
As I’ve often said, you couldn’t get 97% of Italians to agree the Pope is Catholic.
Anyone who believes that 97% of scientists think human activity is the cause of global warming appears to be ignorant of the OISM Petition, in which more than 30,000 American scientists co-signed a statement saying that more CO2 is harmless, and beneficial to the biosphere.
There is nothing comparable from the climate alarmist crowd, whose numbers are much smaller than generally assumed.
Those who can’t handle the truth,
try to silence those who speak it.
Cook effectively silenced the authors’ beliefs by replacing them with his SkS raters’ beliefs.
Cook can’t handle the truth.
One flaw in the study is that it excludes the people who have left the AMS in disgust over the executive committee position paper.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/21/members-quitting-the-american-meteological-society-over-stance-on-climate/
(BTW, Tim Kelley is still working at NECN, so there is life after the AMS.)
The early on-line release document doesn’t show opinions among those who think global warming, from whatever cause, is happening as to whether it is harmful or beneficial. Might track with opinions as to cause, whether human or natural in some combo, but might not. Hope the final version includes that break down.
An even more realistic answer would occur if the answers were inverted on the questionaire. A serious study would put the politically incorrect answer first. Even teeing up the study for the proper result it’s weak.
The totalitarians think that drumming up political pressure/funding equals consensus/validity. In that regard they really do have their 97 per cent!
I can see how some people will interpret/spin these results. They’ll exclude the “non-publishers” because “they’re obviously not experts if they can’t publish papers”. They’ll then merge all the rows where people agree that humans are involved, even if it’s not “mostly”, and they’ll come up with a percentage much higher than 52%. I haven’t done the maths, but I suspect it’ll be over 80% of scientists publishing papers that believe humans are a factor in global warming.
Personally, I’d disagree strongly with the removal of the “non-publishers”. Just because a person isn’t publishing papers, that doesn’t mean that they can’t analyze data or review published material and make a determination as to whether the arguments in the publication are convincing.
…….We suggest that AMS should: attempt to convey the widespread scientific agreement about climate change;……
what? to convey the consensus they just found to be non-existent?
This is called indoctrination in normal life…….
facepalm!
Jerry Critter says:
November 20, 2013 at 11:06 am
Maybe the 4% think it’s getting colder. I’d be surprised if that many AMS members think that climate, the average of weather over decades, centuries, millennia & longer intervals, doesn’t change.
Anthony Watts: The 97% consensus myth – busted by a real survey … We’ve all been subjected to the incessant “97% of scientists agree …global warming…blah blah” meme, which is nothing more than another statistical fabrication by John Cook and his collection of “anything for the cause” zealots … Cook simply employed his band of “Skeptical Science” (SkS) eco-zealots to rate papers … a lie of omission … they’d been lied to by John Cook et al². … we’ll be fighting this lie for years … blown Cook’s propaganda paper right out of the water.
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Isn’t a survey of opinions different from a survey of scientific abstracts? If so, how can an opinion survey show that a survey of scientific abstracts is a “lie”?
Note that 78% of meteorologists who publish mostly on climate agree that the warming is mostly human-caused. Only 5% of all meteorologists claim that the warming is mostly natural, and only 4% claim that the warming isn’t happening.
If we can agree about these facts, that’s great news!
REPLY:Bryan, This response suggests you are simply concern trolling. Had Cook actually done an honest survey, we’d have the opinions of the authors about their papers, not the opinions of the SkS pal review squad in place of those opinions.
For more shenanigans related to SkS, you might look up the sort of pea and thimble switcheroos (they didn’t survey skeptical blogs) and statistical techninques (populations of N=0 are allowed, add your own interpretation) employed by the gang that couldn’t shoot straight when it came to their published opinions on skeptics and their supposed belief in “faking the moon landing”. What you have here with SkS is an organized propaganda team. They aren’t interested in science.
– Anthony
Such beautiful news… and on the most beautiful day Seattle has had in weeks. 🙂
As for Mr. Critter, it would serve you well to also note that only about 4% (or thereabouts) on this site say that climate change isn’t occurring either. A majority here believe it is, but those who don’t aren’t excluded either. It’s called an open forum for a reason.
Have a lovely day all!
The clear bias of the authors is shown in their favorable reference to Lewandowsky et al. (2013), “who found that providing information on the scientific consensus increased the likelihood of members of the public agreeing that global warming was occurring.” So if we push the 97% meme, we will swing more of the public. Shades of Goebbels!
A recent Canadian survey of the general population claimed that 60% of respondents “believe that climate change is real and caused by human activity.” Presumably a very tiny fraction of Canadians reads peer-reviewed papers on the topic.
Therefore the more correct conclusion of the survey would be: “62% of Canadians believe media reports stating that climate change is real and caused by human activity.”
The survey of meteorologists appears to support previous findings – the better your understanding of science, the lower your belief in catastrophic man-made global warming.
As this was a survey of current AMS members (n=1854), it would be interesting to know how many prior members have revoked their AMS membership in the last 5 years, because they objected to the pro AGW stance taken by AMS. We have seen a number of folks declare on these blog pages they had revoked their membership in disgust. Does the total number reach 100 or more? If so, that would amount to a +5% shift in the current poll results.
Conversely, have more folks with pro-AGW beliefs joined AMS because of AMS advocacy of AGW? That would skew the results even more so.
interesting that only 5% think its natural.
Graeme W says:
November 20, 2013 at 11:22 am
Sadly, you are probably right about the spin. The MSM already try to make fun of TV meteorologists.
Blame the non-publishers’ anti-CACA opinions on those troglodytic TV weather forecasters!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/science/earth/30warming.html?_r=2&src=me&
How dare they disagree with their betters on the government gravy train!
Article quotes Joe Bastardi on the cooling planet.
From one of the 97% consensus today, the latest psientific pronouncements from the Prince of Wails :
The Prince of Wales has warned that natural disasters like Typhoon Haiyan that devastated the Philippines and flooding in India earlier this year will become more common unless action is taken to tackle climate change.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10462733/Prince-Charles-warns-over-inability-to-tackle-climate-change.html
Only 26% responded-What about the other 74%?????? I want to hear from them!!!!!!
Half of 26% is really 13%….
Graeme W says:
November 20, 2013 at 11:22 am
“I can see how some people will interpret/spin these results. They’ll exclude the “non-publishers” because “they’re obviously not experts if they can’t publish papers”. They’ll then merge all the rows where people agree that humans are involved, even if it’s not “mostly”, and they’ll come up with a percentage much higher than 52%. I haven’t done the maths, but I suspect it’ll be over 80% of scientists publishing papers that believe humans are a factor in global warming.”
Graeme, the authors did in fact spin the results, stating that “93% of actively publishing climate scientists indicated they are convinced that humans have contributed to global warming.” How does this differentiate them from most skeptics? Later on, the authors did do the more defendable thing, by admitting that only 78% of these actively publishing climate scientists believe humans contribute more than half of the global warming, which is the IPCC position. Count on the alarmists quoting the 93% figure.
Considering that these “actively publishing climate scientists” are supported by a Federal government that is pushing the alarmist position, I am amazed that 22% of them are risking biting the hand that feeds them.
You see, it turns out that Cook simply employed his band of “Skeptical Science” (SkS) eco-zealots to rate papers, rather than letting the authors of the papers rate their own work. The result was that the “97% consensus” was a survey of the SkS raters’ beliefs and interpretations, rather than a survey of the authors opinions of their own science abstracts.
While it wasn’t the main methodology and it wasn’t done in a statistically rigorous manner (as is the case with this AMS paper) Cook’s etal did in fact survey authors.
REPLY: yes, some, but as Schollenberger points out here, their method was madness: http://rankexploits.com/musings/2013/on-the-consensus/
And clearly many authors were NOT contacted. See: http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/05/97-study-falsely-classifies-scientists.html
– Anthony
BW2013 says:
November 20, 2013 at 11:39 am
Only 26% responded-What about the other 74%?????? I want to hear from them!!!!!!
Half of 26% is really 13%….
Point well taken!
MtK
The bigger question is how many think the warming [from] a doubling of CO2 will exceed 2 degrees C? Or a range like their original question; Net positive, neutral, slightly damaging, catastrophic?
So what you’re saying is that a certain percentage of an national organisation of meteorologists, not climate scientists, have said something a bit different to a survey of abstracts of published papers on climate change. Really. Who’d have thought it? As for busted, why don’t you “skeptics” repeat the original protocol with the same criteria using a different sample and see what you get? Then I might think it is actually busted. Of course, the reason the “skeptics” don’t like it is because it is pretty conclusive really (hence Tol’s ill fated effort at debunking the result).
[snip – not interested in your characterization of me – Anthony]
The post says “They give this away when they advise in the abstract steps that can be taken to “correct” the low number reported.“. I couldn’t find the word “correct” or anything that looked like this idea in the abstract or the paper. The nearest I could find was. “MS and other organizations seeking to enhance the climate change readiness of the meteorology community should find ways to acknowledge and deal with the conflict“. The paper did read like it was written by warmists, though.
Near the finish it said “:MS and other organizations seeking to enhance the climate change readiness of the meteorology community should find ways to acknowledge and deal with the conflict“. Judith Curry has put forward suggestions for this, I think she called it “mediated discussion”.
The paper also said “ it is imperative that members of the scientific community – and the professional societies that represent them – take all reasonable measures to ensure that what is
known about the risks [of harm by climate change], and about options for managing those risks, are shared with decision makers“. This is where they really show their warmism. The paper is all about uncertainties, yet they have leaped straight to risks.
I think most skeptics would agree that some portion of global warming is human-caused. They might even agree that it’s mostly human caused.
But where I think they would disagree is whether it’s catastrophic or even undesirable. Would I welcome a climate 2-3 deg warmer here in NJ? Absolutely.
Ahhh, but these are just Meteorologists, they are not Climate Scientists.
They know nothing about the practice of Climate Science: a highly specialised science which requires years of “training” before one can understand the mechanism of how increasing CO2 can be used to cause an increase in funding.
It is the same as asking Football players to comment on the Higgs Boson.
[/sarc]
Interesting that Robert Way of the recent Arctic temperature re-writing paper is also an author on the “97% consensus paper”.
“Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature” John Cook, Dana Nuccitelli, Sarah A Green, Mark Richardson, Bärbel Winkler, Rob Painting, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs and Andrew Skuce
Ric Werme says:
One flaw in the study is that it excludes the people who have left the AMS in disgust over the executive committee position paper.
One among many.
It also doesn’t include the people still in the AMS who understand the potential ramifications of making your ‘non-consensus’ views known via a survey like this.
At best, 52% of 26% or about 14%, buy the party line.
86% either don’t believe it, or don’t care enough about the impending destruction of the planet to raise their voice about it.
The only science I’ve ever seen…..
Where they can identify a cause for something that is not happening
Margaret Hardman says:
November 20, 2013 at 11:48 am
The real driver behind this study is to understand “members of this professional community are not unanimous in their views of climate change, and there has been tension among members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) who hold different views on the topic.”
The reason for the tension is the AMS policy statement on climate change which many members think overstates the problem. E.g., from http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.html
It would have been interesting to find how many of those who think that humans are causing warming think that human produced CO2 is the main cause.
I know someone who thinks that changing the plant cover, from trees to farm land for example, is much more important than CO2 in influencing climate change. He thinks that CO2 is a negligible cause compared to the change of land use.
Just his opinion, of course.
I agree with him, though.
Also note that only 4% say it is not happening.
Sure. Because in order to believe that, one has to doubt all of the efforts to reconstruct past temperatures including the thermometric record, from the LIA to the present. It’s interesting that as many as 4% say it isn’t happening. Perhaps they are saying it isn’t happening still, or perhaps they think that the digested thermometric record transformed into a GASTA by interested parties is dubious when the total warming observed in GASTA (presented without error bars) is smaller than the error bars in GAST (the average surface temperature itself, not the “anomaly”).
The latter isn’t a completely untenable view. Weather records, as opposed to “climate anomalies”, do not provide particularly strong evidence that the 1990s were warmer than the 1930s, when almost exactly half of the state record high temperatures were set in the US. This has to be compared to the three state high temperature records set in the twenty first century so far.
Perhaps the US is not the world, but it has been a leader in science and measurement for well over a century, and its records are far better and more accurate than those accumulated over much of the world outside of Europe. Even in Europe the record is complicated by a lack of reliable long time trend observations, so that many of the records are quite new simply because the country the record belongs to is quite new.
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The rule remains, garbage in garbage out.
Another rule, do not use polls of fools as useful.
Further to some comments above, I am surprised that some of you do not regard meteorologists as climate scientists.
If not, what are they?
Oldseadog says:
November 20, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Good point. My cousin, an emeritus statistics prof, thinks that humans must have some measurable effect, just from UHIs & other heat-generating activities, without considering GHGs.
Still a 53% in support of a political doctrine that is based on lies.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/obamacare-and-global-warming-are-the-same-program/
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)
48% of the sane have to convince 53% morons that they have it wrong.
Tough job.
It was never about the numbers, it was always about power and control.
Which is why the narrative will not change, no matter what the actual numbers are. There will always be a new excuse or a new “hidden raw data” study.
Why couldn’t the “Yes : Mostly Human” be “Yes: Mostly CO2 From Human’s” or something to that effect? Do humans not have a warming affect by other activities? Maybe the 52% would have been lower.
A whopping 11% either don’t know if GW is happening or flatly don’t believe it. That’s more than one in ten who are, by definition, deniers! (I.e. they deny that the science is settled.)
This is a little startling considering that deniers are supposed to be a tiny minority.
Ric Werme says:
November 20, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Margaret Hardman says:
November 20, 2013 at 11:48 am
So what you’re saying is that a certain percentage of an national organisation of meteorologists, not climate scientists, have said something a bit different to a survey of abstracts of published papers on climate change.
The real driver behind this study is to understand “members of this professional community are not unanimous in their views of climate change, and there has been tension among members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) who hold different views on the topic.”
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The whole “97%” meme is inane on its face. What researcher, who wishes to continue to get their steady stream of taxpayer-funded grant money, is going to say the following in their paper abstract:
“While climate change is NOT a problem in the foreseeable future, and efforts to affect climate through geoengineering are likely to fail, our research indicates that…”
And many abstracts in supposedly reputable journals are now becoming increasingly manic…witness some of Jim Hansen’s recent work like the dreadful “Climate change and trace gases.” (2007). Here’s the abstract…
Paleoclimate data show that the Earth’s climate is remarkably sensitive to global forcings. Positive feedbacks predominate. This allows the entire planet to be whipsawed between climate states. One feedback, the “albedo flip” property of water substance, provides a powerful trigger mechanism. A climate forcing that “flips” the albedo of a sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm. Ice sheet and ocean inertia provides only moderate delay to ice sheet disintegration and a burst of added global warming. Recent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of our control, with great dangers for humans and other creatures. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the largest human-made climate forcing, but other trace constituents are important. Only intense simultaneous efforts to slow CO2 emissions and reduce non-CO2 forcings can keep climate within or near the range of the past million years. The most important of the non-CO2 forcings is methane (CH4), as it causes the 2nd largest human-made GHG climate forcing and is the principal cause of increased tropospheric ozone (O3), which is the 3rd largest GHG forcing. Nitrous oxide (N2O) should also be a focus of climate mitigation efforts. Black carbon (“black soot”) has a high global warming potential (~2000, 500, and 200 for 20, 100 and 500 years, respectively) and deserves greater attention. Some forcings are especially effective at high latitudes, so concerted efforts to reduce their emissions could still “save the Arctic”, while also having major benefits for human health, agricultural productivity, and the global environment.
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha02210k.html
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Hey kids, let’s all do the “Albedo Flip”! 😛
1821….
110 Weather Channel
…the rest for NOAA, NWS, etc
All with a very strong agenda….
I’m surprised they even got 52%
rgbatduke says:
November 20, 2013 at 12:09 pm
I see that NOAA has disallowed the 1898 high for Oregon of 119 degrees F, replacing it with a 1998 reading of 117 degrees.
I also notice that NOAA lists 1994 for Texas’ high, although that 120 degree reading is a tie with August 12, 1936 in Seymour. The summer of ’36 was a hot one in the US, as you know.
Old Sea Dog; where do you get the idea that this site doesn’t consider meterologists to be scientists?
88% of those in geophysics agree?
If they are including geologists, then that figure is an outright lie, as geologists are the strongest single sceptic profession. As for geophysicists – why the heck should they know anything about climate, especially climate history?
Anyhow, if those employed in government, or quasi-government organisations are stripped out (after all, they have an obvious vested interest in seeing climate alarmist theories continued) then the 97% figure could easily be reversed with the vast majority being sceptic.
It seems worth pointing out that you should all actually read the paper. It’s really not as supportive of this site’s alternative hypotheses as many here seem to believe. It is linked above though, which is one good thing about the story at the top of these comments.
E.g., “In conclusion, given the potential for human society and the earth’s eco-systems to be harmed by climate change, it is imperative that members of the scientific community – and the professional societies that represent them – take all reasonable measures to ensure that what is known about the risks, and about options for managing those risks, are shared with decision
makers who should be considering that information.”
Many climate scientists’ careers and lavish funding DEPENDS on continued global warming.
The clear trend is that those ‘climate scientists’ who publish mainly in ‘climate science’, i.e. they do it for a living and have to get published as part of that are the most enthusuastic about AGW. That is just a self interest filter at work. Says all you need to know really.
[snip – not interested in your characterization of me – Anthony]
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Just a few days ago, dbstealey and Ferdinand Engelbeen drew my attention to the WUWT sidebar which criticizes SkS for deleting user comments and noted that this means SkS is “dishonest”.
So it’s disappointing that my comment was snipped, but even more disappointing that Anthony claims it was because of a “characterization” after he accused John Cook and other SkS authors of dishonesty.
I still think it’s possible that Anthony has the integrity to not snip this comment, so I’ll repeat my challenge that got snipped earlier: “I’d be very interested to see WUWT read through 10,000 scientific abstracts and rate them. You could show the world how to do a proper survey… right?”
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REPLY: Oh please. Bryan for the record, I don’t give a rats ass about what you think about comment policy (see here). You put words in my mouth in the last comment, I snipped it because of that. Get over yourself. Why don’t you get your peers at JPL to do it, if it is so important to you? After all, you’ve got millions of dollars of government money at your disposal there and we have next to nothing.
The whole consensus chasing is a waste of time in my opinion, Mother Nature will be the final arbiter of the AGW issue- Anthony
Interesting as I wouldn’t have made it into that 5%, shock and horror. Neither would our host or a great many sceptics.
E Wiebe says:
November 20, 2013 at 12:44 pm
It seems worth pointing out that you should all actually read the paper. It’s really not as supportive of this site’s alternative hypotheses
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What alternative hypotheses??
….complete FAIL is not a hypothesis
In case you haven’t noticed….they’ve been flat out lying for almost 2 decades
“Many climate scientists’ careers and lavish funding DEPENDS on continued global warming.”
Just as the opposite is true, very little skeptical work is funded. The question is, how much does this monetary pressure skew the numbers….8 per cent…12 per cent… 20 per cent? Just a few per cent makes deniers in the majority and that is easily a certainty.
And the 5 per cent for the last item is a bogus number.
Only 1% told the truth, that is “Yes, don’t know cause”
Science is not about consensus it is about the testing of a theory….
Theory tested and fails test many times over…
Last week on the BBC’s Question Time our Climate Change Minister, another MP and a union boss all reckoned the Polar Ice Caps are melting….err no.
Refer sea ice data on the site today….overall up on the mean average 1979 – 2008.
They lie and lie and lie…and are they so thick and stupid it beggars belief!
I was a member of the AMS for 20 years, also having the broadcast television seal. I left television in 1993 to trade commodities, using the influence of weather on the price of grains and energies and still do that.
I left the AMS over a decade ago but not over this particular issue even though I consider myself AGW brainwashed in the 1990’s and the AMS played a role.
I would have responded that yes, there has been global warming with insufficient evidence, some of it is probably human. This would have put me in the other 48%.
I just remembered why I quit being a member. The combination of dues and renewal of my broadcast seal was over $200/year and I figured out my television career was over as well as any benefits the membership offered with my new profession. I liked their AMS bulletin/journal with some good articles occasionally but the internet has 1,000 times more stuff now……..just like Anthony provides daily right here. Thanks Anthony!
One thing that is misleading in these type of surverys. When a scientist responds that they think most of the warming is from humans, it’s almost assumed that they belong in the CAGW category when, in reality, there are those that think humans warming the planet is almost entirely a good thing…………..I was one of them in the 1990’s!
I’m waiting for the survey to come out that asks greenhouse growers(these people make their living creating the ideal environment for plants to flourish) questions about increasing CO2 and plants.
Only 5% believe it’s mostly natural ! Staggering ! What evidence do they have that man has had anything to do with it ? What has happened to science ?
. Given the chances of getting 97% again was virtual nil , it could well have been higher or lower and still be a honest exercise.
The biggest give away that Cooks work was rubbish is in the fact the very number they were so desperate to support . Because the ‘need’ to hit that exact same number was a reflection of the way this claim had entered the dogma of ‘the cause ‘, which can never be challenged nor changed for the faithful rather than a refection of reality . For its only the dogma style claims of religions that require such tricks , science could have easily handled lower or higher values.
““Is global warming happening? If so, what is its cause?””
Uh, where is “Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are the primary cause”?
Why cut back on CO2 emissions if they aren’t causing anything significant?
We drive by a building which houses a company selling solar panels, on the wall is a thermometer display, it is always reads differently to our car, The display as we passed recently (on a dull day) read 9C degrees our car read 8C, On one pass recently (sunny day this autumn) the display read 21C, the car display read 14C.
Is this man made global warming.
Obamacare has just annihilated the working class, expect a shift in opinion shortly. everybody depends on government soon.: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-20/obamacare-shock-one-california-employers-terrifying-true-story
It’s good to see Prince Charles taking action to tackle climate change.
By the way the 74% who did NOT respond obviously don’t take ‘climate change’ seriously. We have a consensus of not giving a damn. Like Prince Charles!
http://youtu.be/zhpNJAKq7dE
The problem with the 97% figure is that the media translates it into- 97% of scientists agree that “humans are causing catastrophic climate change and if we don’t do something now we are doomed”. If you asked scientists if they agree with that quote only about 3% would.
Humans are having dramatic effects on local climates through deforestation, the expansion of urban heat islands and black carbon that is reducing Arctic albedo. Human produced CO2 is having some (unknown) effect so you would have to be a denier and in the 3% to not think humans are having some effect on climate. It may be negligible in the long run but we don’t know at this time. It’s the definitive conclusions of impending crisis made by the media and some climate scientists not supported by the underlying uncertainties that are an attack on science. When people throw the 97% figure out, it’s the distortion of what that represents that is a more important issue in my opinion.
A further thought on the infamous 97% , I am unaware of anybody who as ever done any research that proves what the number of scientists , climate of otherwise , actual is .
Therefore how can you ever know what percentage any number of people in a sub group form of the whole group , when you do not know the whole groups size ?
Sounds like a basic maths fail to me.
Of the 52% True Believers, 100% believe because of the “consensus”.
Dumb Scientist Says … Isn’t a survey of opinions different from a survey of scientific abstracts? ..
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All surveys are made to ascertain the opinions of the sample. The Cook survey is based on the opinions of the people that were invited to take the survey. If the sample is of an inherent bias then depending on the level of bias, it will show through in the results. Any statistician will tell you that to get a 97 percent result over a true unbiased sample is practically impossible.
If you asked 100 vegitarians if meat is good for you you will get a different answer than asking 100 butchers.
Do you understand this?
Rhoda R,
Not “this site”, just “some of you” meaning the WUWT readership.
Margaret Hardman at 11.38?
Maybe I misunderstood Margaret,
What’s funny is when these folks say something like “political ideology is related to belief about climate change,” they always mean “conservatives tend to be skeptics” and ignore the equally-true converse “liberals tend to be believers.”
Quite frankly, technology will make concerns about excessive carbon moot anyway. Electric cars and nuclear power plants will prevail, with or without encouragement by the environmental pressure groups, although I do see a radical change growing amongst the greenies in favor of
nuclear power (which logically should have been there all the time, but for environmentalism’s
typical lack of logical thinking). Right now nuclear reactors are the cheapest way to make
electricity, and have been for several years. Only the high initial cost and public opposition has
prevented this technology from taking over. But there are now 70 reactors under construction worldwide and plans for another 500, probably more. And electric cars, assuming a good, cheap, fast recharging battery, have it all over gas powered jobs. Even Henry Ford knew that, way back when. Worrying about carbon is shortsighted and pointless.
The whole thing always did remind me of the hair and make-up adverts. You know the ones 80% of 125 women. Totally irrelevent stats.
It’s too bad they didn’t ask how many AMS members agree with the AMS statement on climate change. Sounds like they’d have been lucky to clear 52%.
What percentage of scientists believed in the Phlogiston theory prior its failure? How about the miasma theory or disease transmission? How about the Geocentric model of the Solar System? Or, worse, the bilateral compromise of Geoheliocentrism?
Asking what people believe is like asking how many Americans are Jewish. It neither proves nor disproves Yahweh or the validity of Judaism. But it sure tells you what religion they hold to.
What does ‘mostly’ mean? 51%, 66.67%, 90%, 97.1%,……..?
Anybody who answers ‘mostly’ should be required to supply us with the statistical techniques (and data) they utilized to arrive at their decision.
[SNIP again – not interested in playing this game with you Bryan, take a 24 hour time-out – Anthony]
Why do the percentages sum to 99% in the last column? Erroneously rounding down?
So 4% of the people that study the subject are flat earthers? And if it turns out not to be the case, then the real flat earthers will be 52%.
Interesting.
Not sure how this from the paper sits with the claim in the headline:
“As we mentioned above, asking about a 150-year time frame rather than a 50-year time
frame may also have changed the strength of the relationships between global warming views
and other variables. For example, expertise may have been a stronger predictor of views on human causation if we had asked about a shorter timeframe. Because the evidence for human
causation is much stronger for the last 50 years (Core writing team et al., 2007), we would expect experts, who are presumably familiar with this evidence, to be substantially more likely to view
global warming in this period as human-caused than non-experts who were not familiar with the evidence. Conversely, the evidence is weaker for human causation over the past 150 years.”
Seems the two studies were asking different questions and the authors of this one acknowledge that.
Yes, mostly natural is so low. Why?
From what I’ve seen of his posts, Dumb Scientist’s tag seems to have been come by honestly.
But science isn’t about majority votes or consensus.
All this survey tells us is… the results of Cook’s bogus research was… well, bogus.
The results are interesting but the fact that the survey was allowed to happen at all is the big news. Times are changing. Something is getting hotter and it’s not the weather.
Lol – would this be the same Meteorologists who can’t get their own weather forecasts correct three days down the road?
REPLY: …and some climatologists who can’t get their models correct three years down the road?
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/CMIP5-73-models-vs-obs-20N-20S-MT-5-yr-means1.png
– Anthony
It is interesting that people here are busy spinning things by coming up with hypotheses of why there might be a bias in favor of global warming in this survey. However, there are two important sources that are probably biasing the results the other way:
(1) The question was phrased, “Do you think that the global warming that has occurred over the past 150 years has been caused…”. The 150 year time frame means that the people who answered “mostly by human activity” were actually agreeing to a stronger statement than has been made by the IPCC which instead focusses on the warming that has occurred over the last 50 years. (The authors themselves even note this potential issue with the way the question was worded.)
(2) Of all the professional scientific societies that they could have surveyed, APS is probably the most “skeptical” because it contains a lot of forecast and broadcast meteorologists, who are generally known to be more skeptical of AGW on the whole than scientific researchers. I imagine that if you did this survey among members of the American Geophysical Union, you would get a higher percentage agreeing with the attribution statements, just as one gets a higher percentage once one filters it by area of expertise and by whether one is actively publishing in any field…and especially actively publishing in the field.
(3) The nature of the questions, based on the past rather than the future may also have affected the results. For example, if you look at the original STATS survey results (http://stats.org/stories/2008/global_warming_survey_apr23_08.html), you see a stronger response to the question of the danger for the future than for the attribution in the past. For example, 85% of the respondents saw climate change as posing a great or moderate danger over the next 50 to 100 years (with about equal numbers saying great 41% or moderate 44%).
E Wiebe says:
November 20, 2013 at 12:44 pm
E.g., “In conclusion, given the potential for human society and the earth’s eco-systems to be harmed by climate change, it is imperative that members of the scientific community – and the professional societies that represent them – take all reasonable measures to ensure that what is known about the risks, and about options for managing those risks, are shared with decision
makers who should be considering that information.”
E Wiebe,
What is the potential for human society and earth’s eco-systems to be harmed by climate change? Conversely, what is the potential that they will benefit from climate change? “We don’t know!” is the only honest answer. How should we weigh these nebulous potentials for harm or benefit? “We don’t know!” is again the only honest answer. Given that, what ‘reasonable measures’ would/could/should we take to ‘manage those risks’…. or promote those potential benefits? We really don’t have a clue! It’s a ‘house of cards’, with no solid foundation and the flimsiest of construction, teetering one layer on top of the next.
Climate changes on this planet. It always has. It always will. What is the ‘optimal climate’? Optimal for whom? “We don’t know!” is yet again the only honest answer. What we do know is we are intelligent and adaptable. We know how to adapt to climate change. It’s already encoded in our very DNA, from hundreds of thousands of years of successful adaptation. Let’s go with our strong suit, adapting to our normally varying climates. Let’s not waste precious resources on creating climate models that produce predictive results little better than consulting fresh goat entrails, pretending to soothsay our future from them, and then casting destructively expensive CO2 spells in hopes of limiting a variable planetary climate system that defies our current and near future ability to know or model.
MtK
i bet those 97 percenters were all on fed grants to research “climate change”…
In case of Homeopathy I would attribute more weight to opinions of those not publishing in that particular field, but are educated in a neighboring discipline, in spite of the fact they have their own peer reviewed journals, schools, organizations &. conferences.
It all comes down to the question how far climate science has advanced along the road leading to a full-fledged pseudoscience. To that question one would never expect an honest answer from those inside.
Sure humans are the cause of global warming – by manipulating data, not maintaining the data collection mechanisms correctly and playing fast and loose with statistical methods.
Simples …
Jimbo says:
November 20, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Thanks for the followup, Jimbo! Those really HUGE buildings in the Prince of Wails compound must be the CO2 containment structures!
Most “scientists” agreed at one point that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Even if it is 97%, so what? It’s all part of the AGW debate tactics:
1. Call Names
2. Answer data without data
3. Invoke moral authority (97%) thing
4. Declare debate over
Know their game, call them on it, force them to data. They lose every time.
Lol – would this be the same Meteorologists who can’t get their own weather forecasts correct three days down the road?
REPLY: …and some climatologists who can’t get their models correct three years down the road?
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/CMIP5-73-models-vs-obs-20N-20S-MT-5-yr-means1.png
– Anthony
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LOL – perfect laugh on a day with my high for the day @ -18C and a low for the night @ -28C.
Alvin: “Yes, mostly natural is so low. Why?”
There’s a few possibilities. The first of which is that it has been a steady drumbeat of propaganda for over 2 decades now. Specifically, it’s been taught to children and so is the only metaphysical model they know. But also, people have a rather strange connection to reality. In that they consider that things are ‘fixed’ or, at least fixed in the same sense as completely regular — such as orbits. The idea that chaotic systems are… well, chaotic, is largely lost on them. Nevermind that weather is just a system and that they’re well familiar with it. They simply don’t draw any connections from the one to the other.
The results show that 73% (52% + 10% + 11%) feel that humans have at least some role to play in global warming … do they not?
Sorry … that should be 62%
I suspect that the majority of the AMS members that believe in AGW responded and that those with no strong belief did not. IOW this survey, like many others done online, is mostly self-selected and really not worth much.
Jon says:
November 20, 2013 at 2:55 pm
The results show that 73% (52% + 10% + 11%) feel that humans have at least some role to play in global warming … do they not?
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If you’re following the walk out at this year’s shindig at the UN Climate Change meeting the “humans” most to blame have walked out blaming the rich countries for refusing to pay the blackmail they demanded. China being the leader walking out – honest to God!
As this poll seems to have been very important to the policy outcomes of the AMS executive surely good governance and freedom from bias and therefore far fewer reasons to cast severe doubt on the pool outcomes would have been ensured by the AMS if they would have had a professional pollster either do this poll or at least analysis these claimed results rather than the apparent very amateur committee doing it with what appears to be an already built in global warming affirmative bias.
26.3% response merely tells us that the committed on both sides of the debate have responded. But it leaves 73% of those contacted as the loose end in this poll.
Human nature being what it is a fairly large proportion of that 76% of non respondents are just as likely to have taken a look at the poll and said to themselves “I just can’t be bothered” or increasingly like so many of us out here, “I’m sick to death of this whole bloody global warming scam and they can take a running jump for all I care”
Then there is that last group who probably looked at the poll and said to themselves “If I fill that poll out the way I feel about this whole damn climate warming scam and somebody finds that out, which in a pro CAGW outfit like the AMS is quite likely, then somebody from the more fanatical side of the AMS will likely try and make sure my job future and promotion prospects are probably gone for good ”
At a guess, no models involved here, the true figure if all meteorologists had responded without fear or favor is likely to be closer to two thirds of it’s members being on the more skeptical side of the global warming debate and maybe three quarters of them just refusing to believe in the Catastrophic Anthopogenic Global Warming meme, itself another differentiation in the climate argument which is now steadily creeping into this whole argument.
A man-made climate change is a next charlatanry in a line with decades-lasted a gender-change-story of a twin mutilated.
To date, a collection of related works by Michael Kerjman, an author of significant “The X-challenge: the realm of senses”, paved a path to understand this merely natural process.
Jon says:
November 20, 2013 at 2:55 pm
The results show that 73% (52% + 10% + 11%) feel that humans have at least some role to play in global warming … do they not?
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Jon, that 11% is 11% of the 20% (labeled “insufficient evidence – unknown”) (~2%) which was an even smaller number of respondents to the follow up (second) email…
..the bigger question is who are the 74% that didn’t respond at all
Noting that most meteorologists either work for a business (ie Weather Channel) or the government (NOAA, NASA, etc) that have a global warming promotion agenda….
The word used in the sidebar is “unreliable.”
Jon says:
The results show that 73% (52% + 10% + 11%) feel that humans have at least some role to play in global warming … do they not?
Unfortunately, this study does not address the issue of significance. 0.0001% is “some role” but not one that anyone should fret over.
I think almost every objective scientist would conclude that humans have made “some” contribution to warming if only by the Urban Heat Island effect. But nobody is their right mind would suggest that is something we should be spending a billion dollars a day to mitigate.
Again, there’s a huge difference between asking about “human induced” climate chsiange and “human-produced CO2” climate change. I’d answer “yes” that humans affect climate significantly (rainforest deforestation, land use changes, etc), but I’d answer “no” that human-produced CO2 is causing any measurable effects on climate.
Because only 1% claim they don’t know the cause the entire poll is rubbish. Nobody knows the cause and so nobody knows if it is going to continue to warm, cool, or remain stagnant. To put it another way, if anyone were certain of the cause there would be no reason for the poll, and there really would be a consensus. This is not a poll of what is known, but what is believed. I’m sure popularity is not a characteristic of science.
Dumb Scientist says:
November 20, 2013 at 11:28 am
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Just looked at your website, you don’t shy away from controversial subjects do you.
How does your traffic compare to WUWT ??
I think it is “alexa” that knows, who’s reading the material.
Well rather than doing polls of themselves and publishing the results it just might be this group start looking for better front men to sell the product.
Al Gore not so much on the trusted side now.
The current head of sales Pres. Obama just showed a decided lack of how to finish the sale of the current lie he is task to sell, some chance this even larger lie will be even harder to do a roll out of a web site on.
If not they can show their own faces to the public and sell these lies up front on TV live themselves.
Put up or shut up. All hat and no warming.
dp says:
November 20, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Because only 1% claim they don’t know
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“To support this committee, in January 2012 we surveyed all AMS members with known email addresses, achieving a 26.3% response rate….”
I would bet my money that 75% know and didn’t want to admit it….
In future years people will look back at Cook et al’s paper and just shake their head at how muddled it was. It should never have got past peer review. History isn’t usually kind to statistical fabrication.
[Snip. 24-hour timeout, per Anthony. Timeout began @1:38 pm, 11/20/2013. — mod.]
Scott Basinger says:
November 20, 2013 at 2:01 pm
From what I’ve seen of his posts, Dumb Scientist’s tag seems to have been come by honestly.
Well, yeah, except for the “scientist” part.
LOL
just 13% of US meteorologists think climate change is caused by humans .
Alvin says:
Yes, mostly natural is so low. Why?
Because they didn’t respond to the questionnaire.
A self selected survey of a group of people that have a strong incentive to keep their head down if their opinion doesn’t conform to the party line is meaningless except as an indicator of dissent by non-participation. More crap that never should have been published.
Dumb Scientist says:
November 20, 2013 at 12:55 pm
“…after he accused John Cook and other SkS authors of dishonesty.”
Not just accused, but tried and convicted. You should look up the original WUWT posts which documented specific transgressions in detail. They are indeed an ethically challenged lot at SkS.
Their posts which I have read are also not generally high quality. You should be very careful about accepting anything from them as factual without double and triple checking the original sources yourself.
@albertalad
Please explain why and how the last countries to industrialize (if at all), that is to say, the poorest, are the ones to “blame”.
I am an AMS Fellow, a CCM and member for 40 years. it is well known I am a skeptic and have given talks at the AMS broadcast conferences and Annual meeting. I was not surveyed. None of my colleagues who I spoke to today are AMS seal holders and known skeptics were surveyed. It is not that they don’t have my address. I get their bills and magazines.
Margaret Hardman says:
November 20, 2013 at 11:48 am
“So what you’re saying is that a certain percentage of an national organisation of meteorologists, not climate scientists, have said something a bit different to a survey of abstracts of published papers on climate change. Really.”
Margaret, so you’d exclude the professional who spends everyday studying and forecasting weather, storm tracks, clouds, precipitation, hurricane strengths, blizzards, tornadoes but include astronomers, psychologists, oceanographers, biologists, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers as long as they support the hype. I know you yourself are simply a follower, which is okay, even laudable that you have the interest, but a wise follower would at least realize they may have something to learn from either side of the debate rather than, with no knowledge of climate, to filter ideas out that criticize the establishment.
Would it surprise you to know that Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit, armed with a formidable expertise in statistics has debunked the work of many of the main proponents of CAGW theory. Indeed, a number of prominent papers were withdrawn after publication when his critiques were presented. Interestingly, he is not even a d_eni_er. He just can’t stand badly done statistics, omissions of non-supportive samples and drawing conclusions not supported by the data. He was of course escoriated severely in the Climategate emails by the climate aristocracy for doing it but none could find any effective way to criticize his methods. Climate Audit is a must read for even the faithful. When they publish a paper, they immediately go to CA to see (with some intrepidation, I imagine) to see what their nemesis has to say about it. We know this because if he has criticized their work, there is a worldwide storm in all the blogs and op eds of the compliant MSM.
Would it surprise you to know that all thinking skeptics know and accept that there has been a period of warming, actually since the Little Ice Age and prior to than, there have been many periods of warming – several historically and prehistorically that surpass today’s warm period, and cooling and deep freezing before humankind ever lit a match. Climate is a fascinating subject but the CAGW unprecented types had a free-for-all love-in that didn’t demand rigorous work before skeptics began to investigate their work. If we were all just a bunch of shills for big CO2 emitters as the way we are usually dismissed, why would they be so aggrieved by skeptic’s science and math? No Margaret, serious, apolitical skeptics who are causing these tremors are physicists, mathematicians, engineers, economists (who look at the costs of adaptation to emissions or emission controls) who can understand and audit the work. I, like many (for example Anthony Watts) was a believer in the idea that humans were causing warming and other damage and that something had to be done. When their work didn’t stand up to scrutiny and dire predictions weren’t even seeming to come to pass (agricultural output was increasing, forests were growing faster, the planet was noticeably greening, etc.) and the shenanigans of Climategate, torturing of data, cherry picking data to match expectations, the schmoozing with political and ideological factions, etc., hey, I and many others became skeptics.
The preliminary report by Maibach can be found at the link below.
http://www.ametsoc.org/boardpges/cwce/docs/BEC/CICCC/2012-02-AMS-Member-Survey-Preliminary-Findings.pdf
He gives a completely different picture of the survey aims from the later Stenhouse et al report:
“The aim of the survey was to answer the following five research questions:
RQ1: Do AMS members feel there is unproductive conflict about climate change within AMS? If so, what do they see as the nature of that conflict? Do they feel able to talk about the issues?
RQ2: If members feel there is unproductive conflict within the membership, to what degree would they support efforts by AMS to better understand the nature of the conflict and take steps to mediate it?
RQ3: What is the range of views among AMS members regarding the existence of climate change, its causes (human v natural), and its implications (i.e., the degree to which it is seen as a serious problem, or not; the degree to which climate change can be limited)? Are members’ views of the conflict (see RQ1 and 2) related to their views about climate change?
RQ4: To what degree do members feel AMS should play an active role in educating the public and other external audiences (e.g., policy makers) about climate change? How large a priority should this be?
RQ5: To what extent are AMS members themselves willing to play a role in educating the public and other external audiences? What, if anything, are they currently doing in this capacity? What, if anything, additional would they like to do?”
This has utterly nothing to do with the supposed four “hypotheses” claimed by Stenhouse et al. If the survey was not designed with those hypotheses clearly laid out in the survey design and ethics board approval, it is not acceptable to apply new hypotheses ex post facto. Can Stenhouse et al show us documents where these hypotheses were laid out as part of the justification of the survey?
Lance Wallace says:
November 20, 2013 at 7:12 pm
Lance, the biggest question I have is: Why on earth is it important to resolve professional conflict on a technical subject. Are they seeking a consensus? Are they considering a cultural revolution type correction of wrong thinking? The wording is very mealy-mouthed and I agree with the premise that they hadn’t expected such results and don’t know how to express themselves on it. How would you define what they mean by “conflict”? Can anyone here tell me what the conflict is? I think they mean that they are disturbed that the profession isn’t toeing the official line.
Possibly the leadership is annoyed at the pushback it’s gotten regarding its position statement.
Answer to Dumb Scientist November 20, 2013 at 11:28 am
I always thought that all scientists had to pass at least basic courses in Theories of Science…. I might be wrong in that assumption. Anyhow you seem not to have read Darell Huff, How to lie with statistics, New York : Norton, 1954
ISBN 0-393-09426-X
Might be an old book, read it myself first time in 70th when studying Mathematical Statistic, but it’s content still one of the best there is to show what magical trics some use to prove non-science theories….
“The whole consensus chasing is a waste of time in my opinion, Mother Nature will be the final arbiter of the AGW issue- Anthony”
To anyone interested in ideal science the above remark rings absolutely true. Unfortunately, real science — how it’s actually done — is heavily dependent on consensus and the godlike pronouncements of acknowledged ‘authorities’. (Most people really don’t want to think: they want their opinions formed by those whom they choose to believe.)
Be that as it may, I still think that you more effectually retain the high moral ground by arguing the science; and you concede ground by getting into the gutter and arguing “consensus” with those you so rightly despise. It doesn’t matter that you are correct on this point — you still pick up some of the smell.
i’ve noticed in the last year or so that the “climate change” department of uk Guardian newspaper site has been taken over by …”the 97% consensus”. it is almost like an sks mouthpiece.not good at all!
“Is global warming happening?”
This is a meaningless question. Warming did occur in parts of the two previous centuries, but there has been none in this century.
If I had to answer the question I would have to say no, because the question is in the present tense. But I am quite sure some amount of warming did occur in the last century.
The question should have been: “Did global warming occur during the 20th century?”. A secondary question could be: “Has global warming occurred during the 21st century?”
It does seem rather basic.
Chris
Could it be that the category “non-publishers” under the “climate science” are those who could not get their work published (as opposed to did not produce any publications) and are consequently elbowed out of their jobs and are now doing something else instead?
I’m one of those who ‘need to be “educated” about climate change’. Exciting!
Bring it on and see who’s thoughest. (aka: put your finger between my teeth and learn how well I still function).
Scott Basinger says:
November 20, 2013 at 2:01 pm
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
This came in the form of a new paper published by the American Met. Society (AMS) that surveyed its members on the subject.The paper studied the views of 1,821 survey respondents (only about 1/4 of its total members) with meteorological and atmospheric “expertise” (not ‘climate scientists’ per say). Only 124 of these respondents had published papers focused mostly on climate.
Of this sub-group, 98% agreed that global warming was happening and 78% also agreed that it was mostly man-made. A further 10% thought it was jointly man-made/natural and 5% more agreed that there was probably some human influence. So in total, 93% of respondents with expertise in climate science agreed that global warming was both i) happening and ii) at least partly man-made, with a big majority believing it was ‘mostly’ man-made.
Alas, Anthony didn’t see that this result actually supports previous results showing a high degree of agreement among scientists *with expertise in climate science* that global warming is both i) happening and 2) at least partly man made. Even among the non-climate experts surveyed there was 73% agreement that global warming is both i) happening and 2) at least partly man made.
In the paper (which is linked in the post) they say: “In terms of strength of the relationship between the independent and dependent variables,perceived consensus was the strongest predictor of all three types of global warming views certainty, causation, and harm/benefit.”
That is, those scientists who believed there was a consensus were likely to subscribe to it. So we have a sort of syllogism: A scientist who believes there is a consensus that P will believe that P. Most scientists believe there is a consensus that P therefore Mosts scientist believe that P
It follows that there is a consensus that P … and loop. This obviously means that one should not pay much attention to whether there is a consensus or not. Because the consensus arises not from the science but from sociological/psychological facts about scientists.
52% agree. WHAT? I’m shocked the number is this high.
These people have the best education, knowledge and information that is available and it clearly shows the whole thing is a scam. For them to believe that global warming/ climate change is manmade is appalling. This 52% number is nothing to cheer about.
Not too surprising. I would hazard a guess a guess that a large majority
of readers of this site believe that human actions did cause some substantial
fraction of the global warming which seems to have peaked circa
A.D. 2000. Again, I would guess that most readers/posters here
believe some combination of the following:
(a) A doubling of CO2 will result in some warming, but less (perhaps
MUCH less) than the approximately 3 degrees Centigrade that the
IPCC trumpets.
(b) CO2 (and other GH gases) are a factor, but are not the dominant
effect.
(c) Natural feedback will turn negative and halt any influence of GH
gases far below any catastrophic level.
(d) Claimed negative effects of warming are exaggerated and, even if
they do exist, are much farther in the future than Al Gore and minions
would claim.
(e) Solar activity in some fashion was a rather larger contributor to the
warming that peaked circa A.D. 2000 than is believed by the IPCC.
The recent “pause” in global warming coinciding with a period of decreased
sunspot activity helps lend some credence to this thought.
As I say, this is purely my guess, based on reading comments on this
site for years. I think that some linear combination of the thoughts
above is the majority opinion of readers of this site,
I participated in this survey and remember thinking at the time how poorly worded it was. I feel a much better survey could’ve been designed and its results would’ve been far more illuminating.
I think it’s interesting that the highest degree of agreement with the CAGW hypothesis is among highly published climate scientist. These tend to be modelers and not traditional climatologist (i.e those who deal with real world data to reconstruct past climates.) Modelers tend to view the real world as a poor approximation of their models, the Pause is a failure of reality to keep pace with their simulations. They ‘buy into’ CAGW because they work by induction, where the evidence is suppose to support the theory not ‘tother way around.
Mumbles,
For a neutral fair and survey they need to include an equal number of catastrophic AGW skeptics, selected by the skeptics themselves.
But that will not happen with any of these organizations, because global warming propaganda is their motive, not science.
On February 17, 2013 Berényi Péter made a particularly insightful observation. He wrote:
A “neighboring discipline” of climatology is meteorology (and meteorologists are particularly well-equipped to recognize the difference between climate and mere weather).
From the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society we learned that most American broadcast meteorologists say that they disagree with the IPPC claim that humans are primarily responsible for recent global warming. A newer survey of all American broadcast meteorologists by researchers at George Mason University confirmed that result.
Even back in 2007, before Climategate, when Harris polled 500 leading American Meteorological and Geophysical scientists (a broader category; details here), there was no consensus. Harris found that: “97% agree that ‘global average temperatures have increased’ during the past century. But not everyone attributes that rise to human activity. A slight majority (52%) believe this warming was human-induced, 30% see it as the result of natural temperature fluctuations and the rest are unsure.”
Refs: http://tinyurl.com/clim97pct
The bizarre thing about Climate Science is how far it is from it’s roots.
In the early days when I was a boy the atmosphere was a cold dry bath of nitrogen and oxygen.
It was cold because only a little of it absorbed any energy from the sun or the earth,
and what there was of it, dimmed the sun relative to earth by 20%.
The atmosphere made the world cooler overall, by quite a bit by blocking that 20%.
After it reflected that much from ever getting to earth, the atmosphere itself was still cold,
and it was still heat conductive, therefore the atmosphere contributed at night, to cooling through conduction, and through convection, as well as radiatively.
In the day time the same conduction convection and radiation worked,
and the water cycle’s phase change refrigeration cycle,
added to the conduction created by, it’s own convection.
The atmosphere was referred to as a greenhouse, STRICTLY to CHILDREN.
In the day when I was learning physics,
nobody had the nerve to stand up and say they reflected 20% energy from a sphere and made temperatures on target sensors attached to it, rise, using magic insulation.
It’s preposterous outright.
Similarly after that initial amount is reflected away, the atmosphere is still very cold.
And no matter who they were when there were still honest men in the scientific world,
nobody claimed immersion into refrigerated fluid,
removed less heat than illumination in vacuum.
Conduction nor convection are there to aid removal.
Even trying to persuade people that they should think of the atmosphere as ever heating the earth is evidence of some need to invert the science.
And of the 20% light blocked by the atmosphere?
The 20% blocking that light, cooling the globe through reflection of 20% away
is CO2.
And Water.
The ones cooling us by blocking half the infrared, which is about a fifth of the sun’s total
are the ones claimed in the scam to do the ‘warming.’
As you can see: removal of 20% energy in, forbids warming by the atmosphere, by definition.
As you can see subsequent spinning of the globe in a freezing cold heat conductive bath,
that’s not ‘warming. Heat sensors don’t go UP when you heat in vacuum then immerse in refrigerated, low temperature fluid baths, even gas ones.
And as you can see further the very gases blocking that 20% are the ones fingered for ‘heating’.
These three foundational errors spell: scam. Fraud. Falsehood, willfully contrived and maintained,
through systematically lying, and assassinating the character of anyone objecting.
It’s a scam.
It always was,
from the time when they had to invert that the atmosphere is actually a cooling, fluid bath.
You can’t raise a heat sensor output by denying it 20%, energy.
You can’t raise a heat sensor output by spinning immersed in frigid fluid gas baths, at one atmosphere pressure.
You can’t raise a heat sensor output using the energy screen, you blocked 20% E in, with.
You young people have been had.
It took a lot of money and nerve to turn a cooling conductive bath
into a giant heater.
It’s going to take a lot of nerve for you to take science back over with honest men.
97% of scientists a hundred years ago believed eugenics was proven. 97% of scientists fifteen years ago assumed the human genome project would answer seminal questions about health and disease and promptly lead to valuable therapies. Instead they found out that humans have fewer genes than do tomato plants… and the field of epigenetics was born… and the arrogance of those who called 97% of our genome (the non-expressed part) “junk DNA” was exposed for what it was. We don’t know what we don’t know, but ought to have enough sense when standing outside very complex systems like weather/climate or trying to appreciate how molecular biology works that the likelihood that we know much is low. But politics, money and fame get in the way — and there are always a whole bunch of progressives lined up to be true believers and tell the rest of us what to do — for the “greater good,” mind you! Yuk!
I found this very interesting in light of a recent talk I attended at McGill University’s “Is That a Fact” conference on education and epistemology. Apparently, so few publications in peer-reviewed journals stand up to independent verification (~ 10%) that industries independently check science-results before trying to develop technology based upon them. That the “non-publishers”, the ones whose work is directly applied to the real world rather than in academia and who run into trouble for errors rather than silence, disagree with the publishers would alone tll me something is very wrong in the science.
Stephen that is an excellent point. I saw another person say so, too. If there was a fair test of whether it is real, it would be what those scientists outside the research climate field think of them.
That’s the real measure of their standing in science. “We awl Say Were Smart”
delivering the kind of trash this whole field has delivered up… just very good point.
Kudos to whomever saw and said it first above before we did here.
That’s like…. the ONLY point really.
I have come here a long time I am glad people are catching up to this pseudoscience. It has given all science work a bad name. Keep up the good work every one don’t let this kind of government employee run, database alteration crime, ruin all our countries, harass these peoples’ work out of existence.
62% believe global warming is happening and is 50% or more caused by man. 9% believe that global warming is not happening or that the warming that is occurring is entirely natural. The other respondents are either unsure whether warming is occurring or unsure as to the causes. So out of the respondents that have made up their minds, by a ratio of 5:1 they believe that global warming is occurring and that 50% or more of that warming is caused by man.
Also, in the summary, Anthony made this statement: “The other 48 percent either questioned whether global warming is happening or would not ascribe human activity as the primary cause.” 20% of the 48% responded “global warming is happening but there is insufficient evidence to know the cause”, 1% said “global warming is happening but they don’t know the cause.” I don’t see how that 21% can be categorized as “would not ascribe human activity as the primary cause.” Or, to look at the converse, I could say” 21% believe global warming is occurring and would not ascribe natural variation as the primary cause” – I doubt you would agree with that wording.
dbstealey says:
November 21, 2013 at 9:39 am
Mumbles,
For a neutral fair and survey they need to include an *equal number of catastrophic AGW skeptics*, selected by the skeptics themselves.
But that will not happen with any of these organizations, because global warming propaganda is their motive, not science.
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dbstealy,
No, that’s not true. You are trying to sample the entire population of AMS membership to find out how many are skeptics, warmists, luke-warmists, etc. What you want to check for is that your sample is random by checking to see if the sample population matches the general population in such non-related measures such as age, gender, etc. They did that in this survey and found the answering population slightly skewed from the general AMS population (fewer women, more older members, etc.) The problem with these type of polls is that they are self-selecting, meaning those with an axe to grind or otherwise motivated are far more likely to answer. I am a skeptic and I was highly motivated to answer this poll because I felt my perspective was not represented in the AMS leadership.
My complaint about the poll was the vague terminology of the survey, they used a definition of GW that was so board no one would disagree with it. They didn’t try to narrow down how much climate change members thought is due to anthropogenic vs. natural forcing. And they didn’t address the consequences of climate change except in wide terms. If I were designing the poll I would’ve tried to narrow down the specifics of what members really thought about different climate change theories. But there was a definite bias in the pollsters and it never even occurred to them that there would be different views among the membership.
I wonder what the result would have been if they’d asked for attribution from 1950 rather than 1850.
The methodology DB suggests isn’t really an opinion survey, it’s an election.
And Dingo makes a good point: this paper actually supports the central tenet of the “consensus” argument: that the greater your expertise in climate science, the more likely it is that you have concluded that AGW is real.
You know when a field of science gets politicized one side or the other is scamming.
When men tell you the world is going to end based on their data but they might need the data later for commercial purposes so he doesn’t want to share it with you, (Michael Mann)
you know it’s just pure crime.
My point is that everyone who has followed this knows people who believe in it are constantly being caught being outright incompetent; whereas the people who don’t,
they keep on refusing to budge and the hysteria is slowly peeled back,
revealing bad science that is undoubtedly beyond honest and upright government employement.
None of the authors queried by PopTech said anything at all about whether they had been contacted. It may be that they did not bother to respond to Cook et al. We just don’t know, unless anyone has better information. I’ve put the question at SkS with request for documentary evidence.
Of note, the questions in the survey are different from Cook et al – enough to make a significant impact. The one asking about human contribution to global warming over the last 150 years is particularly bizzarre. It’s an unusual time frame for the query, and not an IPCC reference or any other formal statement that I know of. It is also, as pointed out above and by the authors themselves, a very different proposition to the question about human attribution since the 1950s.
Simple apples to apples comparisons between the AMS survey, and Cook et al and surveys that come up with similar results, are not sound.
well, i did not have time to read all that, but markers were placed on the major ice sheets in the antartic a number of years ago. they have transmitters and are tracked via satellite. they are moving to fast toward the ocean. to much fresh water in the ocean affects the worldwide ocean currents, which affects worldwide weather. on the east coast there are areas that are eroding away that had previously remained the same for hundreds of years. the point i am trying to make is surveys and opinions do not matter, but facts do. they are available.
A consensus, specifically a consensus about a hypothesis, is a notion which lies outside natural science, since it is completely irrelevant for objective truth of a physical law: scientific consensus is scientific nonsense.
Mervyn is absolutely correct. Why would you ask the Opinion-subjective point of view of people with education in weather ,who may or may not have studied physics or quantum physics which studies the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by solids, liquids and gases. Physicists are the scientists that will know the most about atmospheric reactions to EMR. Climate scientist and “climatologist” don’t seen to know the real basic question to ask, let alone what the answers are.
Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Einstein’s words express a foundational principle of science intoned by the logician, Karl Popper: Falsifiability. In order to verify a hypothesis there must be a test by which it can be proved false. A thousand observations may appear to verify a hypothesis, but one critical failure could result in its demise. The history of science is littered with such examples.
Part 1
1.
It appears that no one has asked the very critical question-Where is the credible test/experiment that proves that the Greenhouse gas effect exists? There is another important question that has not been asked is “Where is the credible experiments that show that reducing the CO2 content in the atmosphere will cause a decrease in atmospheric temperature?
Looking at the great quote from Albert Einstein above- If one experiment shows that an important part of the Hypotheses of Greenhouse gas effect cannot be proved or is disproved it is very likely that the Hypotheses is false from beginning to end.
Here is an experiment that shows that at least 5 of the features of the Hypotheses are false and here is a reference to another experiment that shows that another feature is ass backward as presented by the CAGW crowd.
The Greenhouse Effect Explored
Written by Carl Brehmer | 26 May 2012
Is “Water Vapor Feedback” Positive or Negative?
Exploiting the medium of Youtube Carl Brehmer is drawing wider attention to a fascinating experiment he performed to test the climatic impacts of water in our atmosphere.
Carl explains, “An essential element of the “greenhouse effect” hypothesis is the positive “water vapor feedback” hypothesis. That is, if something causes an increase in the temperature this will cause an increase in the evaporation of water into water vapor.”
Another factor that even the meteorologists have not included in there pretend thinking is “evaporative cooling that is occurring on at least 99.95 % of the earth’s surface.
The Experiment that Failed and can save the World trillions.
Proving the “greenhouse gas effect” does not exist!
By Berthold Klein P.E 1-15-2012 Incorporation of comments of Dr.’s Pierre Latour, Dr. Nasif Nahle and others.
Dedication
To Robert W. Wood (1909) who first demonstrated that the Hypotheses of the “greenhouse effect in the atmosphere”were unscientific. To all the physicists and other scientists since Professor Wood who has added sound technical and scientific knowledge to many related field that have strengthened the case against the Hoax.
To protect my grandsons JJ and BA, their generation and all generations who follow because we finally got it RIGHT. THE GENERATIONS that would suffer extreme economical harm if the Hoax of Mann-made global warming-aka the “greenhouse gas effect” is not stopped now and forever!!
Table of Contents:
Preamble
Section 1-The Hypotheses:
Section 2-The Definition
Section 3: The Experiment.
Section 4-Numbers
Section 5-Holding the gasses -”containment”
Section 6-Setting up the Experiment
Section 7-Results
Section 8-Commentary
Section 9-Water- liquid, vapor, solid (H2O /lvs)
Section 10 Post-script
APPENDIX
Addendum
Part 2
PREAMBLE: Solving a 188 year olde mystery that has eluted many scientists when the answers have been in the books of physics and thermodynamics for up to 100 years To solve the mystery of why “The greenhouse gas effect” does not exist, one has to have an understanding of quantum physics and the basic laws of conservation of energy. To most people including many scientists quantum physics is a mystery especially because many things that happen are not intuitive. When explained and proven by experiment it can be understood
It is desirable that anyone that can read be able to understand this experiment and what it means. This edition is for everyone -the man on the street who would suffer the most by government “1984 Big Brother” control and the Ph. D in social studies , financial, many unrelated branches of science , lawyers and judges.
After communicating with some real people and some Ph. D’s I realize that my mission is a “Mission Impossible”. Being able to read does not mean that the reader can comprehend the inner workings of science. That having a Ph. D in one field does not give them sound knowledge or judgment in unrelated fields (many have taken the time to study in other areas and do have the knowledge needed).
A very brief definition of GHGE is an effect where certain gases have the molecular composition to absorb Infrared (heat) radiation and what happens afterward is important because it is not intuitive but is proven basic physics.(See Bohr model). This process of absorbing Infrared (heat) radiation is supposed to cause the earth to be warmer than a planet without CO2 or any other atmosphere.
This recent paper gives us insight into the real causes of “climate changes”
The Sun’s Impact On Earth’s Temperature Goes Far Beyond TSI – New Paper Shows
By P Gosselin on 30. December 2011
There are several words or terms used in this revision that need some explanation a Glossary of terms is in the appendix.
Section 1-The Hypotheses:
To demonstrate if the “greenhouse gas effect exists it is necessary to define it.
The hypotheses of the “greenhouse gas effect” is the process where a combination of IR absorbing gases (IRag) including
Water/liquid/vapor/solid, CO2.CH4. NO2 and others are super insulation and cause the atmosphere to be 33 degrees warmer than would be explained by the “black body temperature” This is a fair description. In 1981 James Hanson stated average thermal T at surface is 15C and Earth radiates to space at -18C. Then he declared 15 – (-18) = 33C is the greenhouse gas effect. Not OK because there is no physics to connect these two dissimilar numbers. Thermal T is a point property of molecular motion measured by a thermometer or thermocouple, it decreases with altitude. Radiation T is a point property of radiation corresponding to its intensity by Stefan-Boltzmann law, measured by a pyrometer or spectrometer. Solar radiation T increases with altitude. One is apples the other eggs. So 10 apples – 6 eggs is indeed 4 whatchamacallits by math but nobody will ever know what a whatchamacallit is. Therefore it is quite true the 33C greenhouse gas effect is whatchamacallit nonsense. Since this is irrefutable logic, no experiment is called for. You do not have to prove the existence of hogwash either.
The remainder of the “Experiment that failed ****” will be added later.
Part 3
A term developed by a renowned physicist as a theoretical way to compare radiation. (By the renowned Dr. Pierre R. Latour) . There are only a few materials and conditions that approach these theoretical properties. “black bodies) (The earth and its atmosphere is not one of them.).
How is this done? The hypothesis says that the IRag’s absorb the IR radiation then it is “back radiated to earth causing the earth to be warmer by the resonating of this heat energy. {No experiments are needed to refute the back-radiation hypothesis because it would violate the Second Law of thermo, constituting a perpetual motion machine. Mankind has enormous experimental verification Second Law is valid since Carnot developed it, so we can call it a Law of nature. The proof that back-radiation does not exist is at http://www.slayingtheskydragon.com/en/blog/189-greenhouse-gas-theory-trashed-as-dissenters-build-compelling-case and an object of this experiment.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of the magic caused by the “greenhouse gas effect” as has been said the truth is in the details.
As others have not started to define “The greenhouse gas effect” let’s start with what are the “features that should be testable!” Because water/liquid, vapor, solid (H2O /lvs) is different than gases IRag’s as CO2 ,Ch4, NO2 and others gases -the IRag’s will be dealt with first.
Section 2-The Definition
Critical features:
1. The IRags absorb the IR radiation and thus prevents it from escaping into space reducing the rate of atmospheric cool- it causes the air to be warmer.
2. The IRags will “back radiate” IR radiation to earth to cause increased heating of the surface.
3. The IRags will heat up by the absorption of the IR radiation thus heating the air.
4. The IRag’s have different levels of “back-forcing”. Thus CH4(methane) is supposed to be from 23 to 70 times more “back radiation “ than CO2. NO2 is 1000 times that of CO2 Having ask others how this is determined,( no answer yet) ,it is assumed that someone has reviewed the amount of IR that a particular molecule absorbs by an IR spectrophotometer analysis then comparing this to the absorption of CO2. This is a very important feature of the “ghg effect”
5. The higher the concentration of IRags the greater the amount of “back-radiation” the higher the temperature of the Earth and “global atmospheric temperature will also increase.
6. The concentration of CO2 found in million year old Ice cores can be used as proof that the “ghg effect” exists.
Where does this lead?
We all know that the “greenhouse” effect exists. Engineers have built them for decades for a useful purpose (growing plants). Anyone that has gotten into a hot car on a sunny day or has walked into a store with south facing windows (Summer or winter experiences this), its temperature will be much higher than a car ,or windows in the shade. This is caused by confined space heating- this was established in 1909 by R.W. Wood a professor of Physics and Optics at John Hopkins University from 1901 to 1955.( confirmed by Dr. Nasif Nahle in 2011)
What experiment could be performed to “prove” that the ”greenhouse gas effect exists
part 4
Section 3: The Experiment.
All the AGWS point out it is impossible to simulate what actually happens in the atmosphere therefore they propose using computer models. The problem with “computer models” is that unless all the factors that affect the atmosphere are included in the program it is “garbage in is garbage out”. When this has been tried there are no computers made that have sufficient capacity to handle all of the factors? Many of the factors are not even fully know yet. Then the big guess is what are the factors to include and which are really of minor importance and can be left out and still get usable results. To date no one has come up with the “right model” More than 20 different “models of weather /climate program have been published and not one has been successful in predicting the weather a year from now, let alone a hundred years from now. The NOAA has just started the installation and start up of a Cray AMD 16-core Intrago processor in 16 cabinets array of 26 cabinets to create a 1.1 petaflops supercomputer. Until they can define the real facts it will be “super supercomputer garbage in and the super super garbage out at super super speed.”
Using the list of “critical factor” let’s see if there are some ways of indicating if the concept may exist.
To use the concentration of IRags in the atmosphere for testing does not work otherwise there would not be the controversy that exists today.
In the field of engineering and research there is the use of “scale models”” or models with similar properties that can be either up sized or down sized to relate by test to the factor being studied “Model studies” or “bench tests” are either similar in behavior or can be proportioned to a larger or smaller series of events that relate to an actual set of events. They generate data that can be compared to known conditions or events. Chemical engineers and others build pilot plants from lab experiments before finalizing sizing design of a commercial $200 million process plant. Scale-up is a serious engineering art.
An example of downsizing is the use of the super collider at CERN to study what happens in a nuclear explosion.
As the amount of heating that is supposed to be added by the “greenhouse gas effect” is on the order of fractions of a degree per year-(some claim the change to be 1 to 3 degrees/ year) we need a more dramatic experiment to show that the concept actually exists. However if the effect is vanishingly small, it will be hard to prove or disprove. This is one of the UN IPCC tricks to fool you. They employ wide ranges and invent probabilities out of very thin air. If the experiment at a much higher concentration does demonstrate the effect then the Concept does exist. If the concept does works at high concentration then it can be tried with lower and lower concentrations until a threshold of effects is reached. It might be linear or logarithmic to zero. However if the concepts does not work at High Concentrations of IRags then the concept of the theoretical “greenhouse gas effect “has been proven to be a fraud.
Part 5
Section 4-Numbers
Some numbers are needed now: By definition 10,000 ppm is 1%, therefore 100 % equals 1million parts per million (1×10+6) .
. The atmosphere is supposed to contain 400 ppm (round Number) therefore a concentration of 100% CO2 is 2500 time that of what is in the atmosphere. (Volume concentrations high school chemistry) If the effect exists it should be much easier to measure and demonstrate that “back radiation” Is causing a heating effect on the earth.
Now it is claimed that CH4 is from 23 to 70 time the effect of CO2,thus using the lowers figure by using a concentration of 100 % CH4 ,the effect should be 57,500 time stronger that using CO2. It is claimed that NO2 is 100 time more powerful that CO2 thus it should cause 250,000 X the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere
As CH4 is found to be about 2ppB ( 2 X 10 -9)in the atmosphere , a concentration of 100 % CH4 should give a results that is 5 X 10 + 10 times what exists in the atmosphere.
Now if CH4 is 23 times the effect of CO2 another longer chain hydrocarbon molecule will be even more powerful thus the proposed experiment shown below was done with 100 % butane.(Available in pressure cylinders with regulators as Butane torches for soldiering pipe. A small flow of gas from the torch was used to fill the balloon.)
The experiment shown below substituted “natural gas” a mixture of 70% CH4 about 29% CO2 and the remainder is H2 and other trace gases. This is readily available for test purposed from any natural gas stove.
Now 100 % CO2 is available from several sources, but one that is not too expensive is from any Paint ball supply store, a regulator is needed to reduce the flow and the pressure while filling the balloon.
Do not use Alka Seltzer (from an ineffective test promoted by some groups at NASA)as you have to put this in water to get the CO2 thus you have a mixture of CO2 and water and water vapor – you are not testing the effect of CO2 only. Discussion of H2O/lvs in the atmosphere will follow later.
The natural gas mixture should have a combined effect of less that 100% CH4 by a weighted average of 70% CH4+ 29% CO2 or 3.500000725X10+9 times the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere. If this occurs the temperature increase must be measurable
Part 6
Section 5-Holding the gasses -”containment”
How does the experiment contain the high concentration of the IRags for this test? Having reviewed several experiments that “contain” the IRags is glass containers then they measure the increase in temperature of the gas. They claimed this increase was due to the “ghg “effect, they are absolutely wrong. The cause of the temperature increase was due to the heating of the glass by its absorbing the IR and the glass heating thermally. ( A Master’s thesis (peer reviewed) with this information is available on request with about 100 other references). Another failure of these tests was their including a black cardboard inside the containers, thus additional heating of the IRag’s from conduction of heat from the black cardboard Black objects absorb most of the light including IR & UV converting the energy to “heat” which is conducted to the gas in the container. (They created a Greenhouse effect-confined space heating) That seems unfair. Why would they do that?
Another experiment painted the inner surfaces of the boxes to capture more thermal radiation and avoid high reflection from these surfaces. Corrugated cardboard walls have a higher thermal resistance than glass but, additionally, for enhancing thermal resistance of cardboard, we wrapped their outer surfaces with aluminum foil, which has a very low absorptive potential (0.03). It is true that inner walls conduction and convection towards the inner atmosphere were exaggerated by painting the inner surfaces of the containers with flat black paint because the coat had a very high absorptive and emissivity potentials. (From the experimental work of Dr. Nasif Nahle see references)
The proper way to contain the high concentration of IRags is in a thin walled material that will not absorb the IR and heat. [For a slimmer walled material, the lower its thermal resistance and its better conduction of thermal energy. A factor to be considered is the thermal conductivity of Mylar, which is 0.154808 W/m K by Dr. Nahle based on his experiment verifying the work of R.W. Wood ] The experiment used crystal clear Mylar balloons about 3mil thick. They are available in various sizes, several 20 inch diameter(major diameter) were chosen.
Part 7
Section 6-Setting up the Experiment
1. Fill the balloons with the various IRags , and one with dry air as a control.
2. Let the balloons reach ambient temperature. If you are going to use sunlight let it adjust outside in the shade (minimize IR absorption ahead of testing).
3. Use an IR thermometer to check the temperatures of each balloon, use a digital thermometer that reads to 0.1 degree to check air temperature in the shade. Record data. Do not forget these measure two different phenomena. Digital thermometers measure thermal energy, while IR thermometers measure thermal radiation emitted by the system.
4. Take a large black mate board or a large black cloth or sheet and lay it on the ground in the sun. Use the IR thermometer to check the temperature as it rises in the sun. Record the data. When it appears to reach a maximum then go to step 5. . [DuPont Duco #71 wrought iron black paint has an absorptive of 0.98. It would make a very good absorber] The black mate board is used to absorb as much IR as possible that supposedly “back-radiates “from the IRag in the balloon. This is not to simulate a “black-body”. Having done some IR measuring of objects in a Hot car, the color of the object has a significant effect on the IR readings. Use of bi-metal digital thermometers has to be set so they do not absorb IR and heat because of the absorption.
5.Suspend the balloons over the black background (about 1 foot above) and measure the temperature of the balloons initially with the IR thermometer. Record the temperature. You mean balloon surface or internal gas? This is a valid question from Dr. Latour. The best answer at this time is that it is a combination of both. The properties of IR thermometers are to “see” the IR impinging on the sensor bases on the optic of the instrument. The sensor integrates the IR energy to a reading. Thus both the Mylar, and the contents are projecting IR radiation in all directions .The instrument which reads a range of IR frequencies is not able to differentiate between IR from the surface, from the gas inside the balloon and the background IR passing through the balloon. Thus it is necessary to determine IR reading based on the instrument “seeing “through the balloon for one set of readings. Another set of readings would be from an adjacent position but not through the balloon.
In multiple testing there was no differences, in the readings. This indicating that the IRag’s in the balloons stayed at ambient air temperature. The IRags did absorb IR but did not “heat” the gas.
To put a bi-metal digital thermometer either on or inside the balloons would give erroneous readings because the metal of the thermometer would absorb IR and heat up no mater what the temperature of the IRag was.
The study by Anthony Watts of weather stations throughout the US shows how easy it is to get junk readings from improperly constructed temperature recording devises.
6. Measure the temperature of the black background in the “shadow” of each of the balloons also measure the temperature of the black background outside of the “shadows” of the balloons.
Part 8
Section 7-Results
Now let’s repeat the Critical factors and note the result of the test to the critical factor(s).
1. The IRags absorb the IR radiation and thus prevents it from escaping into space reducing the rate of earth and atmospheric cool- it causes the air to be warmer.
Results and explanation: The air between the balloons and the black background did not change temperature. It did not get “hotter thus normal IR radiation cooling of the black mate was occurring. The 100% CO2or the high concentration of other IRag did not “hinder “normal cooling. This has been confirmed by the work of Dr. Roy Spencer and satellite IR measurements showing significant losses of “heat”/radiation to space. Far more than is stated by the IPCC.
2. The IRags will “back radiate” IR radiation to earth to cause increased heating of the surface.
Results and explanation: The black background did not change temperature either in the “shadow” or outside the shadow. The temperature of the black background heated to 20 t0 30 degrees above ambient before the balloons were placed over the black background. When this was done outside in bright sun light the black background heated to 130 to 140 degrees F. Similar temperature can be measured from black asphalt. Air temperatures were 90 to 95 degrees F. When the experiment was done with the 500 watt power shop light (see below)inside the black background went from ambient of 70-72 degrees to 100 -110 degrees. Again when measuring the temperatures of the black background with the IR thermometer there was no measurable temperature difference anywhere along the surface of the black mate . Not a sign of “back-radiation”.
3. The IRags will heat up by the absorption of the IR radiation thus heating the air.
Results and explanation: The balloons did not warn any warmer than ambient. The IRags in the balloons will not warm because that would be a violation of the basic physics described by the Bohr Model. A statement of basic physics that shows that absorption of IR by CO2or other IRag does not increase the kinetic energy of the molecules (heat).
4. The IRag’s have different levels of “back-forcing”. Having ask others how this is determined,( no answer yet) ,it is assumed that someone has reviewed the amount of IR that a particular molecule(CH4,NO2,) absorbs by a spectrophotometer analysis then comparing this to the absorption of CO2. (I have not seen any experimental data that the “back-forcing” relates to absorption).
results: As there was no temperature difference under any of the balloons, there was no stronger “back-forcing” because the IRag absorbed more IR radiation.
5.The higher the concentration of IRags the greater the amount of “back-radiation” the higher the “global atmospheric temperature will become.
Conclusion of test results: Based on the failure of all the previous portions of these tests which were done with very high concentrations of IRag’s to demonstrate the GHGE, it is valid to say that increasing CO2 or other IRag’s in the atmosphere will have NO EFFECT.
6.The concentration of CO2 found in million year old Ice cores can be used as proof that the “ghg effect” exists.
Conclusion: The use of ICE core data is at best circumstantial evidence but it is not proof of anything.
Berthold,
Tyndall demonstrated with the first lab experiment in the mid 1800s. GHGs absorb (and re-emit) IR. But you kind of acknowledge this later by citing references that acknowledge the “greenhouse effect.”
There are plenty of experiments on youtube and in the literature that do comparisons with equal pressure chambers of the same dimensions, absorptive and reflective properties, receiving the same amount of energy, but with different ratios of GHG and non-GHG gases. They show that increased GHG in a volume of atmosphere warms it.
There are also observational records of occlusion of IR in the spectra associated with CO2 over time from satellites measuring radiance reaching their instruments from the atmosphere. This is direct observational evidence of the absorptive effects of CO2 as it has accumulated in the atmosphere.
No serious skeptic denies that CO2 is a grenhouse gas that absorbs infrared radiation, or that increased levels in the atmosphere should cause some warming of the surface, all else being equal. What is contested is the magnitude of warming.
If anyone feels led to do so, I could use some help debunking this article on the 97%. I am not a scientist but am trying to understand as much of the science as I can. I have been having a debate on a religious website where I’m pretty sure the majority believe in AGW. There is one leader of that pov in particular that I am trying to get to be open to other data. She threw this article up to support her position. http://www.pnas.org/content/107/27/12107.long I did link to the above article and this article was her answer. I am doing my best to refute it but frankly, I am feeling out of my depth. Thanks for reading.
Berthold is on his way to a Nobel Prize if he’s right.
Or he goes in the same box as the guy who posted here saying the Greenland ice sheet was 650 years old.
Barry: You are wrong about the experiments of John Tyndall. The experiments definitely show that certain gases do absorb IR. the modern day IR spectrophotometer used in thousands of laboratories every hour are based on IR absorption. There is nothing in Tyndall’s experiment that show the “back forcing claimed by AGW’s. My experiment shows that Back forcing does not exist.
I have reviewed many of the “Glass jar” experiments from one done by some supposed Ph. D candidates at the University of Bremen to the totally feck one done by Bill Nye for the junk program Climate 101.Every one has major faults which I have identified in by “Experiment that failed***” The bottom line is that every one is an example of “confined space heat” not the “GHGE”. At the top of this blog is a tab “climate failed files” where Antony Watts and crew show how the “Climate 101” video was put together in Post production creation- a total lie.
If these pretend experiments were proving the GHGE then only the jar with CO2 would heat and the one with air in it would stay at room temperature. The problem is that the glass absorbs IR and heat up then that heats the gas inside. Ever one of these experiments put the thermometer inside the glass jar them they shine a heat lamp or the sun on the jar, this heats the thermometer even if there is a vacuum in the jar.
Going back to the IR spectrometer; if the “back forcing” existed then the IR spectrometer would not work because the back-forcing would prevent the system from being calibrated.
John Tyndall is his original texts on his experiments made the statement that water and water vapor are the major causes of IR absorption, and that the Trace gases are in such small quantizes that they could not effect the temperatures. The reference “Water Spectrum” by Martin Chaplin shows that Tyndall was partially in error as liquid water does absorb a significant amount of IR , water vapor absorbs a very small amount of IR. It is necessary to understand quantum physics to understand why this is evidence that AGW’s don’t know what they are talking about.
Just because some of the references use the erroneous term” greenhouse gases” does not prove that the Hypotheses is valid. Just like saying you used your Kleenex is that you are not using another brand of face tissue.
As stated before there is no valid experiment that proves that when CO2 or other IR absorbing (IRags) heat when they absorb IR. My experiment shows that they do not heat!!!
I will post the rest of my experiment with references to back up my statements.
Part 9
Section 8 Commentary by Dr. Nahle
I conclude your experiment shows solar radiation affects thermal temperature of high concentration gases (CO2, H2O, CH4, NO2) the same amount as natural air (N2 + O2) by heating the earth then conduction and convection heat the atmosphere ( not absorption of radiation). I understand Hottel did experiments in 1940’s that showed CO2 does absorb and radiate differently from other gases. I have not taken time recently to delve deeply but I think Kalmanovitch shows there is no conflict, CO2 absorbs and radiates just like everybody else. It’s absorption spectrum has a wide notch which GHG folks say blocks Earth’s IR from escaping to space, trapping it somehow. Seems to me that IR just bypasses CO2 molecule and goes out. [Hottel, Leckner (corrected Hottel charts), Lapp (corroborated Hottel and Leckner), Sarofim (corroborated Hottel and Leckner experiments).
Response
Based on the IR absorption spectrograph of CO2, it shows that only very narrow bands of IR are absorbed. The absorption occurs at about 4, 9, and 15nm .Thus all other wavelengths of IR pass though even 100% concentration of CO2, and can heat the earth ( inbound sunlight)or escape to space(out-bound long waves) cooling the earth. Thus the GHG folks are wrong. Even at the frequencies that are absorbed not all of them are absorbed which is demonstrated by the difference of peak heights of any typical CO2 spectrograph.
I’m sure that the AGWs will not believe this proves that the “greenhouse gas effect does not exists , therefore I challenge them to come up with an experiment that they claim “proves the existence of the “greenhouse gas effect”.
As Dr. Latour says: Since AGWS are the promoters, skeptics like me say the onus is not on skeptics to disprove GHG, it is on promoters to prove GHG. The literature on GHG theory is childlike, 3rd grade level, incoherent nonsense. So another approach is asking GHG promoter’s questions. Why? How come? Where did you get that? What procedure did you use? Why? Can you prove that claim? Can you quantify what you are claiming and explain reasoning?
As an alternate light source the experiment has been performed with an incandescent light. By using a 500 watt shop power light which because of the temperature of the filament approach the spectral characteristics of the Sun light ( should have more long wave IR because of a lower temperature) It was placed one(1) meter away from the balloons to avoid conduction and convection heating of the balloons. As is stated above there was no difference in the final results.
Part 10
Section 9-Water/liquid/vapor/solid (H2O/lvs
Now let’s talk about water( H2O/lvs): Why? Everybody seems to acknowledge H2O dominates atmosphere in complex ways, swamping any CO2 effect. AGWS promoters just ignore H2O. I suppose when CO2 collapses they will declare DI-hydrogen monoxide a pollutant too. And so it goes.
Yes H2O/lvs has a major effect on weather conditions, where I’m at in Northern Ohio it just started to rain, if it gets any colder we will have snow or sleet. As is said in the Great Lakes region if you don’t like the weather wait 15 minutes and it will change.
Examining H2O/lvs in the atmosphere : If its clear the humidity can be from near 0 % relative humidity to 100%. Now if it’s cloudy the “relative Humidity” can vary from 30 to 100% depending on temperatures, Now we know that the air temperature where the clouds are forming is at or below the “dew point”, now as the H2O vapor cools to form clouds there is a release of energy (Heat of condensation)(also a reduction of volume), if the general air temperature is low enough ( below freezing) more energy is released as ice or snow is formed. This energy has to be dissipated either as IR radiation or as lightening or probably high winds or tornado.
This is only one phase of the complex weather conditions when H2O/lvs is being evaluated.
Another is the solar heating of clouds both day and night. During the day the warming of the top of clouds is obvious but it is also relevant that in spite of significant solar absorption the “clouds “ have not absorbed enough radiation to convert the water or solids back to vapor; there is probably a rapid turbulent exchange of energy in both directions from evaporation/ sublimation to condensing, to freezing. This is why “climatologists” cannot get the correct “sign” on the “forcing” it is a constantly changing set of conditions, non are wrong and non are correct.
Now let’s add the next variable- solar heating at night of the clouds. Having taken IR radiation measurements at night for the last year at many different times by solar time it is apparent that when the sun goes down below the visible horizon, the clouds are still receiving solar energy. This has been confirmed by both measurements and visible lighting (multiple colors) of the clouds. The clouds and the atmosphere cool until about 2:00 am (solar time) when there are measurable increases in cloud temperatures and air temperatures. This warming continues until daylight is visible. The degree of warming is related to the time of year and what is happening with the jet stream and arctic storms.
There are other factors that are being monitored by real astrophysics researcher that are showing that Solar flares, and different type of radiation including cosmic partials have an effect on cloud formation, this is only a beginning of learning about our atmosphere.
There is no way in the world of Fairy-tales that CO2 can have an effect on weather or “climate”. Besides thermal temperature in my back yard cycles +- 8C daily, so why should I care if average “heat “temperature increases 1C/100 years?
The nice thing about this experiment is that it can be done by high school physics classes or freshmen college physics lab classes . It would teach a very important lesson in that “not all experiments have to have a “positive” end result to be meaningful.
The “science is not settled” ,just look at CERN for the newest real science done by experiment and retested until they have 6 sigma confidence levels. They use computers to analyze the data but “computer models” are not the end only the beginning, Science is not done by CONSENSUS.
Everybody has a different point of view; but scientists and engineers learn how to agree on how nature works.
What you see in GHG & AGWS hoax is what happens when untrained, incompetent people attempt to do science & engineering. A mess.
Dr. Pierre R Latour
Part 11
Section 10- Post script
If anyone gets this far, do you still believe the “GHGE exist”? Do you question its existence?. You also better be doing some independent research because it has been proved that there are large numbers of groups of supposedly scientific societies that have pissed on their own “Codes of Ethic” by agreeing with the Hoax of Mann-made global warming” by Consensus not by proven experiments.
Those that have accepted the Hoax of Mann-made global warming/GHGE include such organizations as Society of Sigma Xi ( a major group of scientists and engineer), the American Society of Civil Engineers, The National Academy of Science,, these are just some that I have had personal experience. The list of others would be in the thousands.
At the same time a few Noble prize recipients in physics have resigned from the American Physical Society because of their consensus accepted of the GHGE.
The witchdoctors of the IPCC , The US EPA, some at NASA, the EU, George Soros , Australia politicians and John Cook that are attempting to destroy the economics of the world because they lie about the fact that science has proven that the “GHGE” does not exist.
Berthold Klein P.E.
http://climaterealists.com/5783
ALAN SIDDONS HEADLINE STORY JOHN O’SULLIVAN NASA
NASA in Shock New Controversy: Two Global Warming Reasons Why by John O’Sullivan, guest post at Climate Realists
Thursday, May 27th 2010, 3:06 PM EDT
Co2sceptic (Site Admin)
NASA covered up for forty years proof that the greenhouse gas theory was bogus. But even worse, did the U.S. space agency fudge its numbers on Earth’s energy budget to cover up the facts?
As per my article this week, forty years ago the space agency, NASA, proved there was no such thing as a greenhouse gas effect because the ‘blackbody’ numbers supporting the theory didn’t add up in a 3-dimensional universe:
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But NASA’s lunar temperature readings prove that behind that smoke was real fire. Some experts now boldly go so far as to say the entire global warming theory contravenes the established laws of physics.
How NASA responds to these astonishing revelations may well tell us how politicized the American space agency really is.
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Short bio: John O’Sullivan is a legal analyst and writer who for several years has litigated in government corruption and conspiracy cases in both the US and Britain. Visit his Website: http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/johnosullivan
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The paper “Falsification of the Atmospheric CO2 greenhouse effect within the frame of physics” by Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner is an in-depth examination of the subject. Version 4 2009
Electronic version of an article published as International Journal of Modern Physics
B, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2009) 275{364 , DOI No: 10.1142/S021797920904984X, c World
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmpb.
Report of Alan Carlin of US-EPA March, 2009 that shows that CO2 does not cause global warming.
Greenhouse Gas Hypothesis Violates Fundamentals of Physics” by Dipl-Ing Heinz Thieme
this may have been submitted already
Part 9
Section 8 Commentary by Dr. Nahle
I conclude your experiment shows solar radiation affects thermal temperature of high concentration gases (CO2, H2O, CH4, NO2) the same amount as natural air (N2 + O2) by heating the earth then conduction and convection heat the atmosphere ( not absorption of radiation). I understand Hottel did experiments in 1940’s that showed CO2 does absorb and radiate differently from other gases. I have not taken time recently to delve deeply but I think Kalmanovitch shows there is no conflict, CO2 absorbs and radiates just like everybody else. It’s absorption spectrum has a wide notch which GHG folks say blocks Earth’s IR from escaping to space, trapping it somehow. Seems to me that IR just bypasses CO2 molecule and goes out. [Hottel, Leckner (corrected Hottel charts), Lapp (corroborated Hottel and Leckner), Sarofim (corroborated Hottel and Leckner experiments).
Response
Based on the IR absorption spectrograph of CO2, it shows that only very narrow bands of IR are absorbed. The absorption occurs at about 4, 9, and 15nm .Thus all other wavelengths of IR pass though even 100% concentration of CO2, and can heat the earth ( inbound sunlight)or escape to space(out-bound long waves) cooling the earth. Thus the GHG folks are wrong. Even at the frequencies that are absorbed not all of them are absorbed which is demonstrated by the difference of peak heights of any typical CO2 spectrograph.
I’m sure that the AGWs will not believe this proves that the “greenhouse gas effect does not exists , therefore I challenge them to come up with an experiment that they claim “proves the existence of the “greenhouse gas effect”.
As Dr. Latour says: Since AGWS are the promoters, skeptics like me say the onus is not on skeptics to disprove GHG, it is on promoters to prove GHG. The literature on GHG theory is childlike, 3rd grade level, incoherent nonsense. So another approach is asking GHG promoter’s questions. Why? How come? Where did you get that? What procedure did you use? Why? Can you prove that claim? Can you quantify what you are claiming and explain reasoning?
As an alternate light source the experiment has been performed with an incandescent light. By using a 500 watt shop power light which because of the temperature of the filament approach the spectral characteristics of the Sun light ( should have more long wave IR because of a lower temperature) It was placed one(1) meter away from the balloons to avoid conduction and convection heating of the balloons. As is stated above there was no difference in the final results.
Part 10
Section 9-Water/liquid/vapor/solid (H2O/lvs
Now let’s talk about water( H2O/lvs): Why? Everybody seems to acknowledge H2O dominates atmosphere in complex ways, swamping any CO2 effect. AGWS promoters just ignore H2O. I suppose when CO2 collapses they will declare DI-hydrogen monoxide a pollutant too. And so it goes.
Yes H2O/lvs has a major effect on weather conditions, where I’m at in Northern Ohio it just started to rain, if it gets any colder we will have snow or sleet. As is said in the Great Lakes region if you don’t like the weather wait 15 minutes and it will change.
Examining H2O/lvs in the atmosphere : If its clear the humidity can be from near 0 % relative humidity to 100%. Now if it’s cloudy the “relative Humidity” can vary from 30 to 100% depending on temperatures, Now we know that the air temperature where the clouds are forming is at or below the “dew point”, now as the H2O vapor cools to form clouds there is a release of energy (Heat of condensation)(also a reduction of volume), if the general air temperature is low enough ( below freezing) more energy is released as ice or snow is formed. This energy has to be dissipated either as IR radiation or as lightening or probably high winds or tornado.
This is only one phase of the complex weather conditions when H2O/lvs is being evaluated.
Another is the solar heating of clouds both day and night. During the day the warming of the top of clouds is obvious but it is also relevant that in spite of significant solar absorption the “clouds “ have not absorbed enough radiation to convert the water or solids back to vapor; there is probably a rapid turbulent exchange of energy in both directions from evaporation/ sublimation to condensing, to freezing. This is why “climatologists” cannot get the correct “sign” on the “forcing” it is a constantly changing set of conditions, non are wrong and non are correct.
Now let’s add the next variable- solar heating at night of the clouds. Having taken IR radiation measurements at night for the last year at many different times by solar time it is apparent that when the sun goes down below the visible horizon, the clouds are still receiving solar energy. This has been confirmed by both measurements and visible lighting (multiple colors) of the clouds. The clouds and the atmosphere cool until about 2:00 am (solar time) when there are measurable increases in cloud temperatures and air temperatures. This warming continues until daylight is visible. The degree of warming is related to the time of year and what is happening with the jet stream and arctic storms.
There are other factors that are being monitored by real astrophysics researcher that are showing that Solar flares, and different type of radiation including cosmic partials have an effect on cloud formation, this is only a beginning of learning about our atmosphere.
There is no way in the world of Fairy-tales that CO2 can have an effect on weather or “climate”. Besides thermal temperature in my back yard cycles +- 8C daily, so why should I care if average “heat “temperature increases 1C/100 years?
The nice thing about this experiment is that it can be done by high school physics classes or freshmen college physics lab classes . It would teach a very important lesson in that “not all experiments have to have a “positive” end result to be meaningful.
The “science is not settled” ,just look at CERN for the newest real science done by experiment and retested until they have 6 sigma confidence levels. They use computers to analyze the data but “computer models” are not the end only the beginning, Science is not done by CONSENSUS.
Everybody has a different point of view; but scientists and engineers learn how to agree on how nature works.
What you see in GHG & AGWS hoax is what happens when untrained, incompetent people attempt to do science & engineering. A mess.
Dr. Pierre R Latour
Part 11
Section 10- Post script
If anyone gets this far, do you still believe the “GHGE exist”? Do you question its existence?. You also better be doing some independent research because it has been proved that there are large numbers of groups of supposedly scientific societies that have pissed on their own “Codes of Ethic” by agreeing with the Hoax of Mann-made global warming” by Consensus not by proven experiments.
Those that have accepted the Hoax of Mann-made global warming/GHGE include such organizations as Society of Sigma Xi ( a major group of scientists and engineer), the American Society of Civil Engineers, The National Academy of Science,, these are just some that I have had personal experience. The list of others would be in the thousands.
At the same time a few Noble prize recipients in physics have resigned from the American Physical Society because of their consensus accepted of the GHGE.
The witchdoctors of the IPCC , The US EPA, some at NASA, the EU, George Soros , Australia politicians and John Cook that are attempting to destroy the economics of the world because they lie about the fact that science has proven that the “GHGE” does not exist.
Berthold Klein P.E.
http://climaterealists.com/5783
ALAN SIDDONS HEADLINE STORY JOHN O’SULLIVAN NASA
NASA in Shock New Controversy: Two Global Warming Reasons Why by John O’Sullivan, guest post at Climate Realists
Thursday, May 27th 2010, 3:06 PM EDT
Co2sceptic (Site Admin)
NASA covered up for forty years proof that the greenhouse gas theory was bogus. But even worse, did the U.S. space agency fudge its numbers on Earth’s energy budget to cover up the facts?
As per my article this week, forty years ago the space agency, NASA, proved there was no such thing as a greenhouse gas effect because the ‘blackbody’ numbers supporting the theory didn’t add up in a 3-dimensional universe:
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But NASA’s lunar temperature readings prove that behind that smoke was real fire. Some experts now boldly go so far as to say the entire global warming theory contravenes the established laws of physics.
How NASA responds to these astonishing revelations may well tell us how politicized the American space agency really is.
********************************************************
Short bio: John O’Sullivan is a legal analyst and writer who for several years has litigated in government corruption and conspiracy cases in both the US and Britain. Visit his Website: http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/johnosullivan
###########################################################################
The paper “Falsification of the Atmospheric CO2 greenhouse effect within the frame of physics” by Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner is an in-depth examination of the subject. Version 4 2009
Electronic version of an article published as International Journal of Modern Physics
B, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2009) 275{364 , DOI No: 10.1142/S021797920904984X, c World
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmpb.
Report of Alan Carlin of US-EPA March, 2009 that shows that CO2 does not cause global warming.
Greenhouse Gas Hypothesis Violates Fundamentals of Physics” by Dipl-Ing Heinz Thieme
Part 12
R.W.Wood from the London, Edinborough and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, 1909, vol 17, p319-320. Cambridge UL shelf mark p340.1.c.95, i
The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory
By Alan Siddons
from:http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/the_hidden_flaw_in_greenhouse.html at March 01, 2010 – 09:10:34 AM CST
The below information was a foot note in the IPCC 4 edition. It is obvious that there was no evidence to prove that the ghg effect exists.
“In the 1860s, physicist John Tyndall recognized the Earth’s natural greenhouse effect and suggested that slight changes in the atmospheric composition could bring about climatic variations. In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first speculated that changes in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.”
The work of Arrhenius was shown to be significantly in error by Angstrom in1903. Arrhenius changed his career shortly after> Why?
After 1909 when R.W.Wood proved that the understanding of the greenhouse effect was in error and the ghg effect does not exist. After Niels Bohr published his work and receive a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. The fantasy of the greenhouse gas effect should have died in 1909 and 1922. Since then it has been shown by many physicists that the concept is a Violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Paraphrasing: Albert Einstein after the Publishing of “The Theory of Relativity” –one fact out does 1 million “scientist, 10 Million politicians and 20 Million environmental whachos-that don’t know what” The Second Law of thermodynamics” is.
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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RESEARCH PAPER NO. 10-08
Global Warming Advocacy Science: a Cross Examination
Jason Scott Johnston
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
May 2010
This paper can be downloaded without charge from the
Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://ssrn.
Israeli Astrophysicist Nir Shaviv: ‘There is no direct evidence showing that CO2 caused 20th century warming, or as a matter of fact, any warming’ link to this paper on climate depot.
Slaying the Sky Dragon – Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory
Tim Ball (Author), Claes Johnson (Author), Martin Hertzberg (Author), Joseph A. Olson (Author), Alan Siddons (Author), Charles Anderson (Author), Hans Schreuder (Author), John O’Sullivan (Author)
http://www.americanthinker.com
Ponder the Maunder
wwwclimatedepot.com
icecap.us
http://www.stratus-sphere.com
SPPI
The Great Climate Clash -archives December, 2010, G3 The greenhouse gas effect does not exist.( peer reviewed).
Many others are available.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.”—Albert Einstein
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.” Benjamin Franklin
Part 13
APPENDIX
• IR= infrared radiation is a form of radiation(invisible light also know as heat rays) that is present in sun light and is also radiated by every body of mater whether it is a gas, a liquid or a solid. If it is a living thing it will radiate more IR that if it is an inanimate object because of its temperature. animals radiate IR from exothermic oxidation and plants do so from endothermic photosynthesis. http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/infrared.html Photosynthetic organisms also have a thermoregulatory system that permits them to radiate the excess of absorbed thermal radiation and the heat generated from metabolic processes. Dr. Nahle conducted an experiment related to this mechanism of thermoregulation in melons and spearmint: http://www.biocab.org/Biophysics.html#anchor_36
• IRag= Certain gases will absorb different wavelengths of radiation (a characteristic of the light ) depending on the construction of the gas. Some gases do not absorb IR, there construction will not allow them to absorb the IR, they may absorb other forms of radiation but as was said above they still radiate IR. Many other materials including water will absorb IR. These should not be included in the term IRags. The words “greenhouse gas effect” has never been proven by creditable scientific experiments and therefore will only be used when absolutely necessary. Atoms and molecules absorb according to their unique absorption spectrum and emit according to their unique emission spectrum. They emit amount of radiation, w/m2 that they absorb.
• The Bohr model is the work of Dr. Niels Bohr a physicist that studied the behavior of gasses when they absorb IR and other forms of radiation. This is much more complicated than presented here. It is a branch of science called Quantum physics.
The basic studies resulted in Dr. Bohr receiving a Nobel Prize in physics in 1922.
The important part of the Bohr model is that when the gas absorbs IR radiation it does not “heat” the gas. It does not increase the kinetic energy of the molecule which is the velocity of the gas molecule in the atmosphere. The IR (photon) energy is converted to inter-molecular activity. The explanation is a concept that is beyond the scope of this experiment. It has an important part in proving that the GHGE does not exist. Many volumes of experiments are available and can be explained better by Quantum physicists; the subject is being studied continually -”The science is not settled.”
• Water/l/v/s=Water has some very important characteristic that are important to earth and to live on earth. Because of earth’s fortunate location in the universe, its temperature varies from a low of-90 F to a high 130 F+. But in the majority of the earth temperatures are between 0 F to 100 F. and water (liquid/solid) can change to a gas at all temperature, to a liquid at 32F(0C) or above, and a solid below 32
Part 14
F.(0 C). Many commenters on GHGE fail to characterize these differences and call Water /l/v/s a “greenhouse gas” In fairness H2O can indeed be a gas, steam or humidity. As we go through this experiment it will become clearer that water or any other IRag is not a “greenhouse gas”
• CO2= a gas that is breathed out by every living mammal and most other living creature, it is absorbed by plants and algae and is them converted back to oxygen which we need to live. [Carbon dioxide also is processed by species of photosynthetic bacteria, i.e. cyanobacteria, green sulfur bacteria, purple sulfur bacteria, green non-sulfur bacteria and purple non-sulfur bacteria] Most process that produce mechanical movements and electrical energy convert fossil fuels to CO2 (carbon dioxide) A very important and necessary part of life on this planet.
• CH4= methane a part of “natural gas” used to heat homes , cook food and run engines.. It is present in the ground along with oil but is only present in the air (atmosphere) at very tiny amounts (parts per billion). While millions of tons of this gas escape into the atmosphere most of this is destroyed by interaction with Ozone(O3) and UV a very active radiation present in sunlight.(this reaction is documented by a paper in the EPA library if they have not erased it) The Methane that is formed by bacteria is almost everywhere. It’s from swamps, rice paddies, bottom of oceans, lakes and streams, decaying leave piles etc. It is a part of nature’s process of recycling.
• NO2= a gas formed by nature when there is lightening. It is also formed in any high temperature burning including engines. The gas is washed out of the atmosphere in every rainstorm. It is used by plants, and is very necessary for their growth. NO2 is a toxic gas and an air pollutant, along with other oxides of nitrogen, NOx. They are major components of smog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen dioxide!
• Specifications of the IR thermometer: model: MTPRO laser-Micro Temp; temperature range: -41degree C/F to 1040 degrees F. IR range 5 to 16 nm. Angle of view D:S =11:1. Cost about $60.00. many other models available
Addendum:
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/vibrat.html Water Absorption Spectrum by Dr. Martin Chaplin
The end for now
Nobel prizes are not awarded for proving some this is wrong. They give prizes to Al Gore to promote an unproven Hypotheses. Al’s book was shown in a British court to be 90% lies with more that 35 technical error. It was declared to be political propaganda and of no scientific value.
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Mod, please delete the previous comment that I submitted and replace it with this one. Thank you!
If anyone is interested, this was my reply, weak though it was: As I’m sure you know, science is not a head-count. When Einstein was told that 100 Nazi scientists had published a book rejecting his theory of special relativity as mere “Jewish science”, he responded that a single paper would have sufficed to refute his hypothesis.
A hypothesis that is disproven needs no consensus, for it is objectively false. Because global warming uses models to predict future outcome, the ultimate proof will be if the climate actually adheres to the models, so far they are not.
The paper you cited, primarily selected climate scientists who worked on the IPCC’s AR4 and we would not expect them to disagree with the main premise of a report they are providing -that global warming has occurred since the 1950s very likely (with no quantitative value to this term) due to human activity. Furthermore, a hypothesis to the effect that humans cause some warming, or even that most current global warming is very likely to be anthropogenic, is not – and does not necessarily imply – a hypothesis to the effect that current warming, if continued over some unspecified period, might prove sufficiently damaging to justify any climate policy to address climate change, still less any public support for it.
In any case, I do think that this 97% consensus is inflated (i.e., the example above of the recent survey of scientists from the American Meteorological Society) misleading, and ultimately, not what science is about.
I also encourage everyone to remain curious and skeptical, and explore ALL things, scientific or not, with an open heart and mind.
curiousnc: you point out something that is very important and is so similar to the actions of the AGW/environmental vampires when they use the RED herring that The scientific realists( man made climate change deniers)[ mmccd] are paid by Big Oil and other large industries like Koch Industries. They us the implication that these interests are lying about the science.
Every large industry have only one primary goal “to make a profit”. This is done by getting people to use their services or products. Koch Industries is one of the larges manufacturers of water treatment equipment and waste water treatment equipment they obviously care about the environment; this is how they make their money. The Koch Brothers have established foundations that donate large amounts of money for environmental research . Some of the recipients of these fund have produced corrupted reports that support the lie of Mann-made global warming.
The Union of Concerned (corrupted ) Scientists are funded by George Soros who is a known environmental vampire ; do you think that the U of corrupted scientists can be trusted to be telling the true science or the George Soros unreal science. This is no different that the attack on Einstein by the Nazis.
It is claimed that there is a “conspiracy by the environmental vampires and the AGW’s? What do you really think?
I dropped my AMS membership of 36 years in 1994 over their position on AGW. I have a feeling that many others have as well. I still receive requests to rejoin, so a mailing list exists that could be used to poll the former members. I don’t think they would welcome the results. Viva Roy Spencer & Murry Salby.
Proving one again that “peer review” should be more appropriately labeled “PAL review”.
Gaming the system is the only way these tools can present their “facts”.
An additional 10% say that GW is real and that humans are at least partly responsible. So that totals 62% who agree that GW is real and human activity is contributing to it.
Mark Farmer,
Human activity may be responsible for some of the global warming. But how much?
There is no measurable scientific evidence showing what quantity of global warming might be caused by human activity. Therefore, all such opinions are mere conjectures.
A conjecture is part of the Scientific Method. It is the first step in the hierarchy: Conjecture, Hypothesis, Theory, Law. It is by far the weakest step. A conjecture cannot make repeated, accurate predictions like a theory can [and a theory is really just a hypothesis that can make accurate predictions].
So where are we? Do we alter in a major way Western civilization, based solely on a conjecture? Or do we say, “Whoa! We need to study this more before taking any action…”?
You have identified the central issue in the global warming debate. Some scientists and engineers think that humans are responsible for part of the global warming obesrved. But no one knows how much — or even if they are right. The question is still undecided whether human CO2 emissions cause any warming at all.
Finally, if we are going to debate some vague “consensus”, let’s include the OISM respondents, who think that CO2 is harmless, and beneficial to the biosphere. Why does the “consensus” omit those 31,000+ scientists and engineers? Because their opinions are contrary to the AGW narrative?
So far, the true, major consensus of opinion is that human CO2 emissions are harmless, and beneficial: on net balance, more CO2 is a good thing. But that majority opinion is always omitted by those who have a self-serving interest in the debate. Why do you think that is?
What about their 2009 survey: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2009BAMS2947.1
their question 17:
17. Respond to this IPIPCC conclusion: “Most of the warming since 1950 is very likely human-induced.”
Strongly Agree (1) 8%
Agree (2) 16%
Neutral (3) 25%
Disagree (4) 24%
Strongly Disagree (5) 26%
75% of the respondents DO NOT agree that “Most of the warming since 1950 is very likely human-induced.” (Neutral respondents are not agreeing, as opposed to disagreeing.) Or one can say that only 24% of respondents agree with the statment.
Thanks
JK