NOTE: This is a “sticky” top post, new posts will appear below this one.
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 Ocean water emits CO2 as it warms?
Martine,
I don’t think that the Romans grew grapes north of Hadrian’s Wall, not only because the Picts would probably have objected to such a trespass, but also because it might have been too inclement there. They certainly did grow wine grapes as far north as Lincolnshire, however.
Another climate proxy are Alpine passes that open up only in warm periods, as confirmed by archaeological finds:
http://climateaudit.org/2005/11/18/archaeological-finds-in-retreating-swiss-glacier/
Did you know some “Climate Scientists” are so attached to, so endeared by, so in love with the CAGW theories that they would be “worried” to learn that the Earth is NOT in mortal danger?
Apologies if others have already covered these, and apologies Anthony for not providing the supporting graphs etc as requested, but I’m off into the Tasmanian wilderness for a week, in an hour or so…..
Roy Spencer provided a great graph of atmospheric CO2 concentration over time. Scaled 0-100% you can guess what it looked like. He then rescaled 0-10%, 0-1% etc.
Others have produced graphs showing how global temp matches PDO etc. not CO2.
Afraid of a 2ft rise in sea level? Afraid of sea level rising at 3mm p.a.? Did you know the sea has already come up 120 metres (about 400 ft) since the last ice age? That’s an average rate of nearly 6mm p.a. Did you know that the current sea level rise started during the 19th century long before any serious man-made CO2 emissions? (both in IPCC report FAQ 5.1) Did you know that the rate of sea level rise has now dropped below 2mm p.a.. (Uni Colorado data)?
Clouds – Did you know that “Clouds, which cover about 60% of the Earth’s surface, are responsible for up to two thirds of the planetary albedo, which is about 30%. An albedo decrease of only 1%, bringing the Earth’s albedo from 30% to 29%, would cause an increase in the black-body radiative equilibrium temperature of about 1°C, a highly significant value, roughly equivalent to the direct radiative effect of a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration.” IPCC report Ch.1.
Did you know that the global warming predicted [I use this word deliberately but you may prefer ‘projected’] by the IPCC is nearly 3 times the warming that they claim is caused by CO2? All the rest supposedly comes from indirect effects involving water vapour and clouds, for which there is no actual evidence, and on which even the computer models can’t agree. (from memory, it;s in the last paragraph of IPCC AR4 8.6.2.3).
re the tropical troposphere hotspot that others have referred to: the diagram of the hotspot is IPCC AR4 fig 9.1, panels (c), (f).
Have you ever seen the list of things effected by global warming?
It is a project of Numbers Watch.uk.com and is on their site at: http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
Did you now that there is a theory that states petroleum is not of biological origin. It is not a “fossil fuel”. It is a geologic formation that is hugely abundant.
Did you know that the IPCC is fundamentally a political organization and not a scientific organization?
Did you know the Carbon Molecule (C) is completely different from the Carbon Dioxide Molecule (CO2)?
Did you know that at least two major carbon dioxide monitoring stations lie downwind from erupting volcanoes?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/greenhouse_gas_observatories_d.html
Did you know that on four major data sets, 1998 is still the warmest year on record?
(The sets are UAH, RSS, Hadcrut3 and Hadsst2.)
See the following four sets, each with a mean of 12 samples and note that the 1998 peak is highest.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1995/mean:12/plot/hadsst2gl/from:1995/mean:12/plot/rss/from:1995/mean:12/plot/uah/from:1995/mean:12
Did you know that the air you exhale has 4% carbon dioxide, which is 40,000 ppm CO2 and that this exhaled air can revive an unconscious person via artificial respiration?
One problem with this thread from the get-go is that most people’s knowledge of science is amazingly poor. When a big chunk of the population rejects evolution and can’t articulate what causes seasons and believes in astrology, then pointing out the subtle misconceptions in climate science will go right past most people.
There is also the problem of worrying about what the “mainstream media” thinks. For one thing, their science knowledge is often also very poor. For another, what constitutes “mainstream media”? Is any pro-CAGW blog part of the mainstream media? Or only major networks & newspapers? Is Fox (surely a major network) exempt from the label “MSM” and if so, by what specific criteria?
It is easy to find misconceptions, but are the misconceptions truly widespread and truly important? Are the misconceptions deliberate misdirection, or simple ignorance (like belief in astrology or failure to know what causes phases of the moon)?
I see lots of “did you know?” ideas put forth in the posts that are themselves either so obvious that any scientifically literate person should indeed know them, or that have significant errors (or are at least misleading).
Did you knowthat the Urban Heat Island effect can result in temperatures in large towns being 10degC above those in the surrounding countryside.
http://www.urbanheatisland.info/
But that this project has now been shut down (It could have been very useful for assesing the impact of UHI on station siting.)
Did you know that the EPA has declared a naturally occurring, essential atmospheric gas a pollutant. This declaration made in order to gain control of Human activity that produce this gas;
although nature produces much, much more of the same,chemically identical gas.
alexandriu doru says:
October 20, 2012 at 10:51 am
The Stefan-Boltzmann law states that blackbody radiation is proportional to the 4th power of temperature, not to the 2nd.
CO2 levels were not extreme during the PETM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phanerozoic_Carbon_Dioxide.png
What source do you have to state that the PETM is an example of runaway feedback? Even the warmist NPOV of the wikipedia doesn’t assert that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petm
Did you know that as of june 1 2012, 2412 days had gone without a major hurricane landfall on the US?
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.pt/2012/05/updated-us-intense-hurricane-drought.html
did you know GISS estimate temps up to 1200 kilometers from weather stations around the world.
Amazingly this estimation gives them data with a precision of fractions of a degree,
If all the air above you was compressed into a column of constant pressure and constant temperature, that column would be 5.280 miles long (8.498 km) at 1 atm and “surface temperature”. (This value is know as the “scale height”.) Of that column, CO2 at 350ppm would be about 9.76 ft.
27,880 ft * 0.00035 = 9.76 ft
At the same temperature and pressure, the amount of CO2 on Venus would fill a tube about 312 miles long.
http://mc-computing.com/qs/Global_Warming/Atmospheric_Analysis.html
Did you know the official historic temperature record supplied by NOAA is not based on measured temperatures? The true measured temperature readings that they’ve gathered have been altered, changed, falsified. ADJUSTED
did you know that prairies grass has adapted specifically to withstand droughts, but when there is a drought nowadays in the US it is proof of a AGW.
Lands typically referred to as “prairie” tend to be in North America. The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of the United States, Canada and Mexico, which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter, somewhat hillier land to the east. In the U.S., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and sizable parts of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and western and southern Minnesota. The Central Valley of California is also a prairie. The Canadian Prairies occupy vast areas of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
Did you know that 99% of politicians repeat what their leader says without checking for themselves. Check by asking any of them any of the above did you know comments.
Did you know that the deserts are greening due to increased CO2?
Plants need less stomata to breath when CO2 is higher. This means they lose less water through transpiration and can survive in drier climates. The greening of the Sahara has been observed by NASA.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/24/the-earths-biosphere-is-booming-data-suggests-that-co2-is-the-cause-part-2/
Video interview of a researcher who has visited the same spots in the Sahel zone for decades and never saw as many plants as now.
http://notrickszone.com/2012/01/03/der-spiegel-the-ground-zero-of-climate-change-is-becoming-green-expanding-sahara-is-a-myth/
Did you know the life of an ozone molecule is about 30 minutes? (NASA website)
Did you know that 98% of incoming UV rays are absorbed by O2 not ozone? (Mrs.Harrison fifth grade), (O2 absorption spectrum)
Did you know one of the causes of the ozone hole over Antarctica is that ozone will not form below certain temperatures? (WUWT)
Did you know that ozone formation is proportional to the angle of incidence of incoming sunlight. The further from the vertical the lower the rate of ozone formation… morning low, noon high, Evening low. The nearer the poles lower, the nearer the equator higher. Picture a big target with proportionally less ozone as one moves toward the outer rings. (Geometry, Mrs. Tidwell )
Climate hanky panky; the moving gif in;
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/ushcn-2-5-new-temperature-cheat/
there is similar stuff for noaa, and others.
James Yogi Bear Hansen, (it must be the hat); part of New York is meant to be under water.
and that graph where co2 is going up at 45 degrees but temperatures are horizontal
Tiljander
Yamal
Santer not Santa
Goodbye to sunspots and all that that implies Penn & Livingston & Svalgaard
and there’s that lovely graph that shows the sun magnetism doing a sine wave, but for the last few years it has given up on the sine wave thing and is nearly going in a straight line.
and dependant on your audience, if you want to scare them, the next glaciation started in 1998 (David Evans ?)
Did you know that measuring sea level rise is not at all a simple task?
Sometimes apparent sea level changes are actually due to changes in elevation of the land, not changes in sea level (give examples such as Harlech Castle, Venice, ancient Roman sea ports that are now land locked. Give reference to sudden land subsidence in the Alaska Good Friday earth quack and Japan’s recent Tsunami quake.)
Did you know that there are historic high tide markers around the world which show no detectable sea level change in over 100 years?
Did you know that local sea level can change by inches or feet simply due to changes in the wind direction? Great storm surge in Britain’s 1953 North Sea flood
Did you know that the “name small pacific island of choice” is not sinking.
Attach picture of the fresh water lens that forms in a pacific coral island which if over pumped by residents causes sea water intrusion into the local water supply.
Show example of coral reefs that grow vertically in step with sea level changes (and have for thousands of years) or they would not exist.
Did you know that sea level has risen hundreds of feet since the end of the last Ice age and humans have had no problem adapting to those very slow changes?
Show image of continental shelf and sub sea level terrain with river gorges over what were in ice age times vast areas of habitable land.
Larry
during the last glaciation the cooling oceans absorbed so much co2 that co2 levels fell to 180ppm, plants stop growing at co2 levels of 150ppm and there are people suggesting we capture and bury co2 ?!
is that really a good idea given that the average interstitial lasts 11,500 years which we have now had.