From the video description:
AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we’re talking about baseball or Earth’s atmosphere. NCAR scientist Gerald “Jerry” Meehl explains why.
Video by Noah Besser, produced by UCAR Communications for
AtmosNews: NCAR & UCAR Science
Find out more about climate change and extreme weather: http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/attribution
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Gosh.
While there’ no crying in baseball, there certainly is in “climate change” as Bill McKibben tells us.
I’ve spent the last few years working more than full time to organize the first big global grassroots climate change campaign. That’s meant shutting off my emotions most of the time””this crisis is so terrifying that when you let yourself feel too deeply it can be paralyzing. Hence, much gallows humor, irony, and sheer work.
This afternoon I sobbed for an hour, and I’m still choking a little. I got to Copenhagen’s main Lutheran Cathedral just before the start of a special service designed to mark the conference underway for the next week. It was jammed, but I squeezed into a chair near the corner. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, gave the sermon; Desmond Tutu read the Psalm. Both were wonderful.
But my tears started before anyone said a word. As the service started, dozens choristers from around the world carried three things down the aisle and to the altar: pieces of dead coral bleached by hot ocean temperatures; stones uncovered by retreating glaciers; and small, shriveled ears of corn from drought-stricken parts of Africa. As I watched them go by, all I could think of was the people I’ve met in the last couple of years traveling the world: the people living in the valleys where those glaciers are disappearing, and the people downstream who have no backup plan for where their water is going to come from. The people who live on the islands surrounded by that coral, who depend on the reefs for the fish they eat, and to protect their homes from the waves. And the people, on every corner of the world, dealing with drought and flood, already unable to earn their daily bread in the places where their ancestors farmed for generations.
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This is an example of our tax dollars at work, how pathetic.
Oh, for crying out loud!
So Jose Canseco and Barry Bonds contribute to AGW?
Oh McKibben, grow up, you sappy little phony fussbucket. A complete fantasy…or perhaps “compleat” would be more appropo. Blecch.
That’s the crappiest piece of propaganda to which I have ever been subjected.
Show us the record highs and record lows from the 1920, 30s and 40s in your little graph, gentlemen!
Science?
Hogwash, a lot of baseball players have some good years and some bad years, but don’t use steroids.
“This afternoon I sobbed for an hour, and I’m still choking a little”
If you try talking science to Bill, this all you’ll ever get.
How do these NCAR folk sleep at night, knowing full well the lies they tell.
I guess “noble cause corruption” is a powerful soporific
ZZZZZZZzzzzzz . . . . [boink!]
Someone needs therapy and needs it now!
Yeah you would expect record highs to usually be equal to the record lows…..if we weren’t talking about the real world with urban heat biases.
Of course, let’s not mention that correlation != causation.
Maybe Gerald Meehl thinks that the only CO2 emissions justified are those from jetting climate scientists to meetings in Bali, Tahiti, Burban, Copenhagen, etc., but in fact, recycling carbon into the atmosphere is what makes the human race sustainable.
The only way that we can feed 7 billion people now is because of the use of nitrogen fertilizers, made by converting natural gas and nitrogen into ammonia, urea, water and CO2. CO2 is also a macronutrient, along with water, upon which all life is based. Without these, people would freeze to death or starve.
It seems the case for CAGW is led by people who are ruled by the emotional hysterics typical of an adolescent. And I must admit in my own personal experience with people at work who are deep green CAGW advocates they are that EXACT personality type. To bastardize William Blake these people need to apply the “hard and wiry line of rectitude” and apply a bit of critical thinking instead of emotional thinking–cheers brett
I shed a tear reading this. Probably because I am canning ghost peppers tonight.
3 record highs / 1 record low???
According to the Record Highest & Lowest Temperatures by State as listed by National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, N.C., and Storm Phillips, STORMFAX, INC.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001416.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0113527.html
In the 2000’s only Maine is listed, but that was for a record Low Temp.
someone cue in that youtube, the one with everyone sitting around, beating drums, and crying to the trees…………….
It sounds like somebody needs a hug. ;-> Maybe we should have the IPCC visit MLB, since they seem to have a lot in common.
Poor old Bill. His prescription for happy pills must have run out. Oh, well.
“I’m still choking a little”
me too, im coughing up chunks having just seen the comments on climate-regress.
“This afternoon I sobbed for an hour, and I’m still choking a little”
….. “Then 12 hours later, I wet my bed”
So NCAR is trying out the “if we only communicated better, people would believe global warming.” Baseball and steroids is something that most people know about. Therefore they will get the analogy and start to believe in global warming. Hardly.
It is not convincing. It is a condescendingly poor analogy. And the use of dated cartoon marketing just makes it even more simplistic marketing. Start over.
Why can’t Meehl just show us the latest research on how CO2 actually produces warming. Some experimental evidence for example.
And then McKiibben demonstrates what I have been saying for a long time. The majority of the pro-AGW people are emotional thinkers rather than logical fact-based thinkers. The world needs some of those but facts are proof, and emotion means nothing to me.
Yes dear, this is pure religion. What an I%@ur momisugly%^!
R. Shearer says:
February 7, 2012 at 5:18 pm
…..Without these, people would freeze to death or starve.
But that is just what the Greenies want! These neo-Malthusians just ‘know’ that the Earth is overcrowded, so the population has to be drastically reduced. Pol Pot was one of the first; got rid of a quarter of the population of Cambodia using “renewable” skull crushing wooden clubs. Sort of made direct action less popular, so people like Paul Erhlich & David Attenborough call for the same ends, but are discreet about the means.
Now what was the population in 1968? 3.56 billion, about half today’s figure, yet
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate ”
They’re still working on it.
I thought Bill was just kidding and having some “gallows humor”