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No, I’m not asking for money, only your ability to research and encapsulate an idea.
I have another big project in the works, and I’m inviting you all to be a part of it because this is an idea that lends itself to crowd-sourcing very well. I’ll have a press release forthcoming as to what it is all about, but in the meantime I decided to give you an opportunity to pitch in and help.
The concept is simple and revolves around the question “Did you know?” and climate science.
Here’s how it works.
Every one of us has some little tidbit of information they learned about climate science that isn’t being told by the MSM and doesn’t fit the narrative. I’m looking for a series of “Did you know?” tidbits to use in an upcoming presentation. For example:
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Did you know?
The infrared response of Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is curved (logarithmic) rather than straight (linear) as is often portrayed in science stories?
This means that a runaway greenhouse effect is not possible on Earth.
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As shown above, the concept and supporting graphic fits on a single slide. That’s what I’m shooting for.
Using the example above, I’d be indebted to you if you could provide similar examples in comments. Please provide a URL for a supporting graphic if you have one, along with a URL that provides a source/citation for the information.
Concepts that are just words without graphics are acceptable too, provided they are short and succinct. They have to fit on a single slide.
Other readers are also welcome to fact check the submissions in comments, which will help make my job easier.
This post will remain a top post sticky for a few days. Thank you for your consideration.
Did you know that elevated atmospheric CO₂ level may increase drought resistance of plants?
Plant, Cell & Environment
Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 319–331, February 2002
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.2002.00796.x
Plant water relations at elevated CO2 – implications for water-limited environments
S. D. Wullschleger, T. J. Tschaplinski, R. J. Norby
cited by 170
Did you know that to apply thermodynamic equations the system being studied must either be at thermal equilibrium or demonstrably close to equilibrium. I am unaware of any climate models test the thermodynamic state or show that the climate system is in thermal equilibrium or are close to it. It is clear that the climate cannot be in thermal equilibrium or even close to it——- That’s why we have variable and interesting weather. So non of the so-called climate models are valid or can be shown to have any predictive value — which is self evident from the models. QED
Tony Berry
bobby b on October 20, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Did you know . . .
In 2006, Al Gore purchased a condominium in San Francisco that would be under water if the predictions he made in his 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth were to come true?”
Probably the single best “DYK” on this whole thread!!!! We need more facts like this. Facts that show the prophets don’t believe their own prophecy, or profit from it,
Did you know that net primary production is increasing due to recent changes of climate?
In other words: Earth is greening.
Science 6 June 2003:
Vol. 300 no. 5625 pp. 1560-1563
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082750
Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999
Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Charles D. Keeling, Hirofumi Hashimoto, William M. Jolly, Stephen C. Piper, Compton J. Tucker, Ranga B. Myneni, Steven W. Running
cited by 997
Did you know that the strongest 73-year string of solar cycles in 11,400 years occurred from 1933 to 1996, which could explain most of the 20th Century warming?
http://cc.oulu.fi/%7Eusoskin/personal/nature02995.pdf
I posted several graphs in this recent Arctic thread:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/18/sea-ice-news-volume-3-number-15-arctic-refreeze-fastest-ever/#comment-1114284
Through using all 365 days of ice coverage data from each year , and not just cherry picking the annual minimum we get a much clearer pattern of how it has progressed in recent decades.
Two clear ‘did you knows’ come out of this.
Did you know that the accelerating melting in Arctic has ended?
The period of the big slide in Arctic ice coverage was from 1997-2007.
Did you know that the duration of the Arctic melting season has been getting rapidly shorter in recent years and is now shorter than 6 months.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/18/sea-ice-news-volume-3-number-15-arctic-refreeze-fastest-ever/#comment-1114284
I have not seen this last analysis done anywhere else yet. It is done by finding summer min and winter max and taking the difference. All available daily data are used and a 13 day low-pass filter is used to remove the effects of short term weather events before detecting the turning points.
Data sources annotated on the graphs.
[ NB. Our new friend Gary has already dismissed all this a pseudo science and seems to think using all the data is “cherry picking” so he may not let you use it 😉 ]
DYK….that the Titanic was ‘believed’ to be unsinkable?
While saving the polar bears is poster child issue for global warming. Inuits say the numbers are rising.and hunting is still authorized. . .
http://sleepless.blogs.com/george/2012/04/save-the-polar-bears-from-overpopulation.html. .
Data from the Vostok ice core show that during transitions between glacial and interglacial periods rises and falls of temperature tend to precede rises and falls of atmospheric CO2 by approx 1000 years. So for any given temperature, contemporary CO2 levels tend to be higher during cooling episodes than during warming episodes. In other words on the timescale of ice ages temperature drives CO2 rather than the other way round.
This should not however be taken to suggest that the post-industrial revolution increase in atmospheric CO2 is caused by warming – the increase is too large.
Did you know that even Real Climate and Gavin Schmidt state that the IPCC models have already been falsified at the 90% level due to their being no new unambiguous Global Temperature record set since 1998? Also, that if no new unambgiguous record is set by 2016, then the models will be falsified at the 95% level.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/what-the-ipcc-models-really-say/
Alan
Did you know that in the last 16 years global temperatures have plateaued while CO2 emissions continue to rise? The two sets of data don’t run parallel any more.
[Kindergarten level – but this time period is within current adult life experience, so easy for general public to relate to.]
14000 Abandoned Wind Turbines In The USA « Tory Aardvark
The US experience with wind farms has left over 14,000 wind turbines abandoned and slowly decaying, in most instances the turbines are just left as symbols of a dying Climate Religion, nowhere have the Green Environmentalists appeared to clear up their mess or even complain about the abandoned wind farms.
Not sure if this counts. From a 2008 documentary, ‘Meat the Truth’.
“The film picks up where An Inconvenient Truth conveniently left off, and is a must-see for anyone who cares about the future of life on this planet.”
Quotes from the film:
“People don’t realise that it’s actually the meat on their plate that’s causing global warming rather than the car that they’re driving.”
“If you reduce your total [meat] consumption by half … you cut in half the greenhouse gas emissions … Our fork is a powerful tool.”
“The production of 1kg of beef is just as bad for the environment as driving around in the car for three hours while you left all your lights on at home.”
“A vegetarian in a Hummer produces fewer greenhouse emissions than a meat eater in a Toyota Prius.”
“As consumers, we can make a difference by changing our diets.”
“All the cars, tractors, trucks, planes and ships in the world added together emit fewer greenhouse gases than livestock farming.”
“This huge environmental impact that livestock has is not well understood by the public” — Dr Henning Steinfeld, U.N. FAO
“Everybody needs to know that food and agriculture contributes to climate change and has environmental impact.”
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/global-warming-film/
Did you know that, in the time of dinosaurs, atmospheric CO2 was eight times higher than today? Life flourished like never before. James Hansen is wrong when predicting that if CO2 doubles, “that’s it for all species”.
Global Warming ? Bring it on ! Here in South Devon, UK we have had three cold summers on the trot. Blow the science.
Did you know that very, very few people have checked the facts about CO2 and supposed global warming ?
Rephrase my earlier question:
Did you know why we should worry about rising CO2 emissions when global temperatures haven’t warmed for the last 16 years?
No? Well, nobody else knows either.
Did you know that a frozen forest at Eva Creek near Fairbanks, AK, thrived at a time that was up to 5 degrees Celsius warmer than it is today, when there was little-to-no permafrost.
Because the frozen forest is full of charred trees, the implication is that there were a lot of forest fires 125,000 years ago. Insect galleries carved into the bark of some of the frozen spruce indicate that the spruce bark beetle was also there then.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF14/1409.html
Did you know that In the Little Ice Age, witchcraft was blamed for the devastating climate:
Fagan’s The Little Ice Age (Basic Books, 2000):
“Witchcraft accusations soared, as people accused their neighbors of fabricating bad weather…. Sixty-three women were burned to death as witches in the small town of Wisensteig in Germany in 1563 at a time of intense debate over the authority of God over the weather.”
Did you know that the Aztecs had sophisticated irrigation systems and “astrolonomical” observatories, (apparently a mix of astrology and astronomy), to attempt to predict the weather. Unseasonal frosts and cold, followed by severe, prolonged drought, may have taken them to the brink of collapse. Once the climate became more benign again, they praised their gods with human sacrifice. It is thought that hundreds of thousands of people were sacrificed to the rain god Tlaloc.
https://sites.google.com/site/medievalwarmperiod/Home/drought-floods-famine-and-central-and-south-america
Did you know that:
At the last glacial maximum (LGM) some 21 thousand years ago (ka), the Sahara desert covered a much larger area than at present, as apparent from the dating of fossil dunes some 5° south of the present extent of mobile dunes (Talbot, 1983).
“Over the past 1.65 million years, approximately corresponding to the Quaternary period, there have been some seventeen glacial cycles, each lasting approximately 100ka (Goudie, 1992). Evidence from lake sediments in the central and southern Sahara indicates a succession of arid and humid episodes broadly coincident with glacial and interglacial periods respectively (Kowalski et al., 1989; Szabo et al., 1995; Cremaschi, 1998; Martini et al., 1998).”
“On multi-millennial timescales, shorter than those represented by the 100ka glacial cycles, monsoon dynamics are modulated by the Earth’s 21ka precessional cycle, which determines the angle at which the Earth’s axis is inclined to the plane of the ecliptic (the plane in which the planets orbit the sun) (Kukla and Gavin, 2004).”
“When this angle is large, the northern hemisphere is inclined more steeply towards the sun in summer, resulting in increased solar insolation or heating of the Earth’s surface, and a larger differential heating between the northern hemisphere land masses and the oceans, which intensifies the global monsoon system.
When the angle of inclination of the Earth’s axis is small, boreal summer heating is reduced and the monsoon system is weak. The 21ka and 100ka cycles interact, and an increase in boreal summer insolation is believed to have contributed to the process of deglaciation after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (Goudie, 1992).
By around 10ka, maximum inclination had been reached, resulting in an increase in incident solar radiation at the Earth’s surface associated with intensified monsoon activity throughout the northern hemisphere subtropics (Tuenter et al., 2003).”
http://www.nickbrooks.org/publications/TynWP61.pdf
I suppose we have to ask the question, “what effect does anthropogenic CO2 have on the angle of inclination of the Earth’s axis?”
I’ve occasionally thought a climate skeptic’s “Page a Day” calendar might be cheap enough to produce to make it worthwhile. At 341 comments, we’re getting there, modulo repetition and some items that are major issues with me. (Most notably is “How can 400 ppm CO2 have any impact?” I’m disappointed so many people have brought that up in its many forms.)
I won’t have time for a few years to spend much time on one, but I’d certainly want to be on the review committee!
Did you know Climate Change is a figure of speech?. Climate is always changing so Climate Change is a pleonasm. Adding ´change´ to ´climate´ is superfluous. Empty rhetoric, a swindle with words. The deception tries to make you think that there was a steady climate in the past.
Did you know that a GHG absorbs according to the ‘curve of growth’, at low concentration it’s linear at the high concentration it’s square root, in between it passes through a logarithmic regime. CO2 at its present atmospheric concentration is in the logarithmic regime.
DYK that until mankind started burning fossil fuels all plant life here on Earth was on the verge of co2 starvation? Mankind + fossil fuels has begun the truly “green” revolution for all life on our planet putting some of the sequestered co2 back into the atmosphere. Don’t let the ocophobic eco-freaks return us back toward the cold and starvation. A bit warmer is better for all animals. A bit more co2 is better for plants and therefore all animals.
DYK that this is the environmentalist’s actual objective, a cold and starved future? Investigate it yourself, the quotes of their leaders are out there on the web.
DYK co2 levels do not affect the earth’s temperature at all proven so far by hundreds of thousands of empirical radiosonde sounding data instances? (Ferenc Miskolczi)
DYK the levels of the sun and clouds (liquid and solid matter) do, in fact, affect the temperature of this planet?
( nice initiative Anthony! very much needed. )
highflight56433 says:
October 20, 2012 at 10:10 am
http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/ees/slides/climate/comp_atm.gif
http://www.americanthinker.com/%231%20CO2EarthHistory.gif
Like these?
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Did you know that if the above second link is true and that CO2 concentrations of 3,000 ppm led to global temperatures that were 10 deg C warmer than today and if the CO2 greenhouse effect is real and logarithmic that the forcing would have to be around 3-4 deg C for a doubling of CO2?
According to the AGW theory, the increase in CO2 causes an increase in H20 vapour which then warms the atmosphere more, which in turn, increases water vapour again, causing more warming – this is the Positive Feedback Loop that AGW requires for their to be catastrophic warming….. BUT
DID YOU KNOW…..
That initial step of increase in water vapour comes from water vapour evaporating from the oceans etc. Evaporation is an Endothermic reaction – meaning that it has a COOLING effect. The AGW models do not take this into account. So while an increase in CO2 has a mild warming effect and might initially cause a little more evaporation, that evaporation has a cooling effect which cools the oceans. And cooler oceasns absorb more CO2 ! Therefore reducing CO2. This is how the CO2-heat-H20 system ballances itself out.
DYK a large swatch of the worlds population has been infected with a case of ocophobia (co2-phobia) and what is really needed is to have psychological clinics set up to help the afflicted? Mankind owes it to these lost and confused souls created by over zealot environmentalists infiltrating our schools, universities, governments and industries.
DYK this illness is being spread by the content of schoolbooks within our grade school and upper level texts and teachers curriculum? Even in the cartoons fed to pre-school children on the TV channels. The first step is to purge all of this contaminated propaganda content from what is being feed to the young and developing minds and getting back to pure and proper classical science teaching.