Responding to the last blunder he made where he assigned WUWT ownership of the “Our Climate” app, Sierra Club Chairman Carl Pope makes a blunder anew, 5 times.
Heh.
See the full writeup and see if you can spot all five:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/apple-fools-day-again_b_684263.html
Blunder aside, I found this interesting:
My post on the threat of extreme weather attracted only ONE response, whose key point was: “How on earth are we supposed to ‘destabilize; the climate? Are you not careful with your words or do you really believe that the climate would become instable with more CO2? In the latter position you would find yourself rather lonely.”
His intentional (IMHO) misspelling of the site is an attempt to degrade the site through condescendingly coming up with an alternate meaning (that he will have to reveal himself). It serves 2 purposes.
Take the site where he penned the alleged insult – the Puffington Host. Someone trying to do a google (or Bing) search on it will not come up with this blog as a source, so it will not feed their hit count. The same goes for stuff like moron.org, or dimunderwear.org. basically the reader will know what the writer is talking about, but the changed name is a slur against the site and the site gets no hits or promotions off the search engines.
Now he just has to come up with some type of phrase to give meaning to his attempted slight.
Make an offer to Mr. Pope to share CTM and Evan so this doesn’t happen again….for a nice price! (don’t take EU carbon credits either!)
Pope must have been one of those that voted for the hopey changy thingy. Oh wait. So did I. But I learn from my mistakes. Apparently he keeps making the same ones!
Well I’ll be damned before I bother with any log in on a supposed news BB like Huffington Post.
So I will put my post here so Mr Pope can read it here; and then correct his eggregious error wherever he wants to write it.
The only accumulation of Greenghouse Gases that absorb an increasing amount of the incoming solar energy happens to be H2O; which as we all know is NOT a green house gas but a feedback factor to amplify CO2 effects; well that’s what the scientific “concensus” claims anyway.
So for your edification Mr Pope; it is water vapor that can absorb perhaps as much as 20-25% of the incoming solar energy in the wavelength range longer than about 760 nm in the deep red. CO2 does not have any significant impact on incoming solar energy until you get out to the 4 micron CO2 line, and at that point, less than 1% of the total solar energy remains to be caught by anything, and even there H2O continues to be a factor in absorbingincoming solar energy.
And that atmospheric absorption of incoming solar energy has the effect of COOLING the surface; not HEATING it. Yes it does heat the atmosphere; but then at least half of the subsequent thermal emission from that heated atmosphere goes upwards towards outer space; rather than downwards towards the ground; so no matter how you slice it Mr Pope; the interception of incoming solar energy by any component of the atmosphere results in a net cooling of the surface.
So you need some remedial 8th grade science teaching to get you up to speed on what is happening.
The funny thing is that on that very Huf Post page there is a story on the right which is titled:
“America Loves Dirty Coal: Industry Prepares For Biggest Expansion In Two Decades ”
[“Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry’s standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come.”]
Huffiinton = 6 comments (4 from the sceptic side….I just checked)
Currently Anthony has 55! Or am I falling into the “Who has the most supporters trap!
Be fair Anthony, this is not ad hom! Pope is fun! He makes me laugh! EVERY TIME!