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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.
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Cherry-Pickers Guide to Global Temperature Trends (Figure 2).
http://www.masterresource.org/2009/10/a-cherry-pickers-guide-to-temperature-trends/
Polar Bear Population
http://ivo.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/polarbear-crisis.jpg
Did you know that tens of thousands of scientists reject the CAGW conjecture?
http://www.petitionproject.org/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2053842/Scientists-sign-petition-denying-man-made-global-warming.html
And there’s more scientists:
http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/
http://www.sovereignty.net/p/clim/leipzig97.htm
http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/cato_climate.pdf
Did you now that if the earth were perfectly smooth and spherical it would be entirely covered by ocean several miles deep?
Bear that in mind if you have any doubt that this is a watery planet and that water is by far its most important constituent part.
Did you know the average depth of the oceans?
Average depth in feet …………………… Area in Million Sq Miles
Pacific ……. 15,215 ……………………………….. 64 million
Atlantic …… 12,881 ……………………………….. 33 million
Indian ………13,002 ……………………………….. 28 million
Southern ….15,000 …………………………………..8 million
Arctic …………3,953 …………………………………..5 million
The Arctic is BY FAR the shallowest of the oceans more accurately described in the past as “The Great Polar Basin”.
Did you know ? : That as far as actually observed measured values for CO2 in the atmosphere; we only have data from 315 ppm to just under 400, and none of that data fits either of the two model graphs in the first example; nor does it fit any straight line.
Did you know ? : That when a cloud passes between you and the sun; it ALWAYS is cooler (lower Temperature) in that shadow zone, than out of the shadow zone; it NEVER heats up in the shadow zone.
Did you know ? : That H2O and CO2 and O3 (ozone) absorb MORE incoming SOLAR energy, so it never reaches the surface, than they absorb long wave outgoing infrared, energy emitted from the surface.
Did you know ? : That when floating sea ice melts, the sea level actually goes down; it does NOT go up. Most of the heat energy to melt the ice; 80 calories per gram, comes out of the surrounding water which cools and shrinks, lowering the sea level.
Did you know that, at the very least, large portions of the Northern Hemisphere, and particularly Arctic regions, have been warmer than now for most of the last 10000 years, and that the LIA was probably the coldest point in that time.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/little-ice-age-was-the-coldest-period-for-10000-years/
davidmhoffer says:
October 20, 2012 at 10:07 am
This one is a classic – but someone needs to make it into a neat compact one pager… (maybe me, tomorrow)
Real greenhouses frequently raise the CO2 level for better plant growth.
http://www.novabiomatique.com/hydroponics-systems/plant-555-gardening-with-co2-explained.cfm
Did you know, what old german encyclopedias tell about the average temperature in cities?
Prag (Praha)
Pierer Lexikon 1857 : 9,5° C
Today: 9,4° C
Bremen (Germany)
Meyers Universallexikon 1911 : 8,7°C
Today : 8,7°C (Bremerhafen)
Venice:
Pierer 1857 13,6°C (10,88°R)
Today : 13,5°
Did you know that the average CET (Central England Temperature) temperature, averaged over the last 5 yrs, is the same as for most of the 1730’s?
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/uk-climate-change-card/
3 If you took five reams of copy paper (2500 sheets) and stacked them atop one another, the upper sheet would represent the percentage of CO2 in the air. And man’s contribution to that sheet would be a small slice of it. And your country’s contribution to that slice would be a similarly small slice. And your country’s costly mitigation efforts would reduce that small slice and a yet smaller slice.
4 CO2 isn’t a “pollutant,” in the common meaning of that term. Submariners live in an environment up to five or ten times richer in CO2 than we do, without ill effects.
5 Plants like and need CO2. It’s commonly added to commercial greenhouses.
6 The world has been “greening” in recent decades, and most deserts contracting, thanks primarily to increased CO2.
Did you know that the Sept 19, 1955 issue of Life magazine ran a Story title “forests aflame in the US; Pacific Coast timberlands are charred by worst fires in 30 years.” The reason cited: “abnormally hot weather.”
jvp
Did you know that there are several papers indicating that CO2 levels LAGS temperature with several hundred years?
http://icebubbles.ucsd.edu/Publications/CaillonTermIII.pdf
Did you know that famed environmentalist James Lovelock (“Gaia”) has reported that senior climate scientists say different things to their friends than what they say to the rest of us?
“The great climate science centres around the world are more than well aware how weak their science is. If you talk to them privately they’re scared stiff of the fact that they don’t really know what the clouds and the aerosols are doing. They could be absolutely running the show. We haven’t got the physics worked out yet. One of the chiefs once said to me that he agreed that they should include the biology in their models, but he said they hadn’t got the physics right yet and it would be five years before they do. So why on earth are the politicians spending a fortune of our money when we can least afford it on doing things to prevent events 50 years from now? They’ve employed scientists to tell them what they want to hear.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/mar/29/james-lovelock
Oops, on my #4 above, change to “by a yet smaller slice.” (Not “and . . . .)
Did you know that while open water absorbs up to 90% of the solar energy that strikes it the average is much less, just as the average amount of sunlight that is reflected by ice covered arctic sea water is much less than the upto 90% we hear about. Did you also know that open water in the Arctic night radiates more energy spaceward than sea ice covered water. Did you know, that while sea ice conducts thermal energy better than sea water does, open water radiates from the surface, while sea water under the ice has to radiate through all that ice. The sea ice and snow acts like an insulator… think igloo.
EVIDENCE CONSENSUS Scientific Understanding
Stratospheric water vapour from CH4 Strong Insufficient Low
Direct aerosol Strong Moderate to Insufficient Medium to Low
Cloud albedo effect (all aerosols) Medium Insufficient Low
Surface albedo (land use) Strong Moderate to Insufficient Medium to Low
Surface albedo (BC aerosol on snow) Medium Insufficient Low
Solar irradiance Medium Insufficient Low
Volcanic aerosol Strong Insufficient Low
Stratoswater vapour not CH4 oxidation Insufficient Insufficient Very Low
Tropospheric water vapour frm irrigation Insufficient Insufficient Very Low
Cosmic rays Insufficient Insufficient Very Low
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch2s2-9-1.html
hmmm sorry mods for above (table fail) will email
Did you know that while the most of the Anthropogenic contribution of CO2 was post WWII, the warming in the early 20th century does not look appreciably different than the latter half.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1910/to:1940/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1970/to:2000/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1910/to:1940/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1970/to:2000
or just the regression lines
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1910/to:1940/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1970/to:2000/trend
Moreover while Temperature is supposed to follow CO2 at least in the modern era, we have this:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/isolate:60/mean:12/scale:0.2/plot/hadcrut3vgl/isolate:60/mean:12/from:1958
Did you know that the next ice age will start in about 1500 years if we don’t cause enough warming.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/08/increased-co2-emissions-will-delay-next-ice-age/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=next+ice+age
The claim isn’t directly made, because it could be knocked down, making the claimant look bad (like an alarmist). But the claimant’s audience is not warned about this diminishing danger, and so they make the inference that the response is linear. In effect, alarmists are lying by omission.
1. Did you know that the East Antarctica Ice Sheet, by far the largest on the planet, has not receded for 3000 years?
2. Did you know that it has been just as warm as now often in the past 10,000 years of the present interglacial phase? This was especially true during much of the Holocene Climatic Optimum five to eight thousand years ago, but also during subsequent climate cycles such as the Minoan, Roman and Medieval Warm Periods.
3. Did you know that the earth has been in a cooling trend for about 3300 years, since the Minoan Warm Period? Although cold & warm periods alternate, the longer term trend has been down.
4. Did you know that it is was much warmer than now during the previous interglacial phase, 130 to 114 thousand years ago, when Scandinavia was an island, the raised beaches of Alaska formed & hippos swam in the Thames at the site of London? This was without benefit of a Neanderthal Industrial Age in Europe.
5. Did you know that there was an ice age in the Ordovician Period, when CO2 levels were many times higher than now? The sun was perhaps 4% less hot then, but that alone cannot explain the glaciation, given perhaps 7000 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, vs present 390, very low by the standards of most of our planet’s history.
6. Did you know that carbon dioxide is plant food, and that crops and forests flourish when its concentration is higher?
7. Did you know that climate “scientists” systematically “adjust” raw temperature data higher for recent time frames and lower for earlier decades?
8. Did you know that, contrary to the hypothesis of CAGW via greenhouse gases, the air is warming less and more slowly than the land? This falsified (in both the scientific and ordinary senses of the term) hypothesis requires just the opposite to occur.
Would you like more? Sorry for no graphics.
did you know that Hubert Lamb wrote numerous articles and a succession of books on climate in the 20th century – he was the most important climate scientist of his time. Modern climate scientists now reject his life time work, and he is accused of being so wrong that anyone that reads or takes his work seriously is a flat earther (John Mashey, poodle extraordinaire)
Lots of goodies here.
http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/01/nasas-research-substantiates-trend-towards-global-cooling-human-global-warming-from-co2-has-disappea.html
Did you know that the ‘97% of scientists believe in AGW’- claim is based upon one internet survey on which 75 of 77 responds who happened to be scientist said ‘yes’ to believing in AGW?
source: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/about-that-overwhelming-98-number-of-scientists-consensus/
Did you know that Harlech Castle was built between 1282 and 1289 on the shore of the Irish sea in Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales. Its water gate allowed the castle to be resupplied by sea.
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlech_Castle: “A water gate overlooks a protected stairway of 127 steps that runs down to the foot of the cliffs.[36] In the 13th century, the sea came up close to the stairway, allowing resupply by sea, but today the sea has retreated significantly, making it more difficult to envisage the concept in its original setting.[33]”
As a matter of fact the sea is now located about three quarters of a mile away on the other side of the Royal St Davids Golf Course.
How does this square with the contention that sea levels have been rising for 20,000 years?
Just asking. I really don’t know. If the answer is that the land rose, then what effect does that have on sea level? The Hawaiian islands are relatively small, but there are huge mountains that grew to allow them to pop above the water level. How much sea level rise is geologic as opposed to climate based?