IPCC Climatologist: "It would ruin the US economy and it wouldn’t save the climate either"

Is that a sheepskin vest Dr. Running is wearing?

@Tim McHenry
As an example of how well communist nations adhere to international treaties look no further than how the Soviet Union stuck to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
Once the deal was signed the Soviet whaling fleet proceeded to kill every single whale they could find and then lied about it.

How is it that the proponents of cap and trade completely ignore he fact that emission control schemes for co2 have failed across the board ? Not only have they plunged much of the EU into economic turmoil – which has been exacerbated by the current crisis – but co2 emissions have actually increased over the last decade . It is mindless .

Nonetheless, Running called on the United States to show leadership on the issue of addressing climate change, saying other countries will follow suit.
So all countries should ruin their economy without “saving climate”?
This is funny.
Saving private Ryan was better.

Running’s formal background is in remote sensing. Any climate-related “knowledge” he has concerning climate science rubbed off on him from his association with the others on the Nobel team. He has, I think, been associated with the U. of Montana since his graduate school days.

There is something very odd about the whole “global warming/climate change” issue. Since when have our political elites ever been far sighted about anything? They claim to be worried about future climate, and they encourage huge changes in our economic system (mostly tax increases) now to prevent theoretical cataclysm later. Meanwhile, these same politicians blithely spend trillions of taxpayer dollars on “stimulus” that is totally focused on the short-term and probably toxic long-term. I smell a rat. I think the real reason these politicos love the climate change issue is because it gives them cover to do what they love to do anyway: raise taxes and increase government control over our lives. This could also explain why liberals are much more likely than conservatives to think “global warming” is a problem we must solve.

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Funny I thought the economy had already tanked and was still on the way down. Does he mean it might affect the recovery, or won’t he notice the real economy until he’s put out of a job too?
Running is one of those responsible for showing us the satellite obs that the planet is actually greening, which is excellent work and certainly something I’d never have guessed from all the current academic hand-wringing about the Amazon. I wonder why he didn’t point this out to the rest of the IPCC who still seem to think that deforestation is responsible for 20% of the CO2 buildup. Based on models of course…. It’s actually quite funny to hear Stiglitz’s deforestation group writing about the need to set up a satellite system to observe the increasing deforestation when in fact Running has done that already and it shows net natural REforestation. Well, funny and sad at the same time.

“”” tarpon (13:33:35) :
It’s a claptrap framework for global socialism … I say they prove man made global warming is real. And furthermore, how much will be changed with trillions in new taxes.
Anybody know how it’s actually possible to measure global temperature? “””
Well it’s very simple and any 8th grade science student can tell you how to do it. It must be easy because Gaia does it all the time.
Using the MKS system of Units; you place a thermometer in the middle of each 1 x 1 metre cell of the earth’s surface, and you read all of them (simultaneously) once per second for a year which is about pi x 10^7 seconds. Then you simply add up all of those temperature readings; divied by the number of seconds in a year (pi x 10^7) and divide by the surface area of the earth; and the result is the mean global temperature averaged over a full earth orbit of the sun. What could be easier than that.
But Gaia is much more thorough than that crude method. She has a thermometer in each and every single molecule in the whole planet; nad she reads them so fast it would make your head spin.
But that way; Gaia gets the correct mean global temperature always.
So how many thermometers does Hansen have and does he really read each of them twice a day. Seems like Anthony throws some doubt on that score.
But the more important question Tarpon, is what the blazes are you going to do with the information once you have it.
Can you figure out which way the wind is blowing; is it a good time to go sailing; how about soaring in a glider; will tonight’s Newdelphia BBseries game be rained out; shopuld I invest in Potato futures ?
Well if you can’t do any of those things who cares what the earth’s mean temperature is. Well we know that the mean temperature of the whole earth will fry your brains; so maybe we should restrict the question to some portion of the whole planet.
Does anybody know what portion of the planet they are trying to measure; it certainly isn’t the surface. How many of Anthony’s owl boxes are sitting on the ground reading the surface temperature ? is it 60 inches or two metres above the surface ? Izzere a thermometer on the top of Mt Everest ? If so is that a surface temperature or the not so lower troposphere ?
Who cares anyway ?