It always helps to review the topics discussed here, as doing so always provides an educational opportunity for everyone.
Given we are starting a whole new year of bringing the science to people who have doubts about the veracity of some claims in climate science, this seemed like a good opportunity to run this excellent global warming primer video from Warren Meyer who runs climate-skeptic.com.
It is well worth your time to watch, and it is edited for the layman with some real-world examples to help explain concepts.
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This video is a critique of catastrophic man-made global warming theory, based on presentation slides used in a series of public presentations and debates in late 2009 and early 2010. The author is Warren Meyer, author of the web site climate-skeptic.com.
While the world has almost certainly warmed since the end of the Little Ice Age in the early 19th century, and while it is fairly clear that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses may be responsible for some of this warming, climate alarmists are grossly overestimating the sensitivity of climate to CO2, and thus overestimating future man-made warming.
While the theory of greenhouse gas warming is fairly well understood, most of the warming, and all of the catastrophe, in future forecasts actually comes from a second theory that the Earth’s climate system is dominated by strong positive feedbacks. This second theory is not at all settled and is at the heart of why climate models are greatly over-estimating future warming.
Note: Charts last updated Jan 2010. The earlier live version of this video has 8000 views on Vimeo.
http://climate-change-theory.com says:
January 2, 2012 at 8:26 pm
“You cannot understand this issue without reading Professor Claes Johnson’s “Computational Blackbody Radiation” and understanding quantum mechanics”
If you can follow the meanderings of Claes Johnson then congratulations. However, you would then be aware that Claes Johnson does not believe that quantum mechanics has any relevance to this topic. He says he doesn’t understand statistical physics either, so that’s a bit of a problem for thermodynamics. In fact he doesn’t seem to believe in most things except that ‘rationality in physics was abandoned in the beginning of the 20th century’ – just before we made all those rapid scientific advances.
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