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 there is another naturally occurring odorless, colorless substance that has literally killed millions of Humans. Yet is ignored by the EPA. This dangerous substance is not a toxin per se. Yet it is a constituent of many highly toxic substances. Historically this chemical has killed Humanity by the shipload. The Chemical: dihydrogen monoxide.
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
That is dihydrogen monoxide is ignored by the EPA for it’s danger. The EPA does indeed pay attention to it.The EPA watches what we mix with it.
Did you know that 125,000 years ago the Eemian was 2 degrees Celcius warmer and sea level was up to 20 meters higher than now?
http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=safari&sa=X&rls=en&biw=1024&bih=876&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=QM2ltc6NiDWiwM:&imgrefurl=http://www.roperld.com/science/sealevelvstemperature.htm&docid=_7WcoS_kt7n6SM&imgurl=http://www.roperld.com/science/graphics/Temp_SeaLevelEemian.jpg&w=500&h=278&ei=uAqDUK7QNaiziQKXzIHgBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=333&vpy=169&dur=474&hovh=132&hovw=237&tx=162&ty=59&sig=110337756353758077946&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=236&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:75
Did you know that less than 20,000 years ago the ice covering the Seattle, WA area was thicker than 5 Space Needles ~~ about 3,412 feet; more than 1 kilometer. As that ice and other land ice melted the sea level rose by almost 400 feet; about 120 meters.
Quick note with small graphic here:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/pugetsound/tour/geology.html
Better text here:
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=5087
Full description here (see Fraser Glaciation a page or so down):
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Glaciers/IceSheets/description_ice_sheets.html
Another map here showing location of Seattle with ice depths:
http://flightline.highline.edu/jloetterle/153F05pdfs/G153_FieldGuide.pdf
Photo of Space Needle here:
http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/27/2789/MAFOD00Z.jpg
Post-glacial sea level chart here:
http://www.allmystery.de/dateien/71394,1299524887,Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png
Comment with 6 URL links sent on topic of Puget Lobe ice. Likely will go to spam file.
This one fits well with Richdo’s contribution at October 20, 2012 at 10:19 am
Did you know that in addition to global warming, Al Gore also invented the internet?
Ok, ok, I’ll try to think of something more serious =P
Did you know that malaria was one of the diseases suffered by builders of the Rideau Canal built after the War of 1812 as a strategic defence waterway from Ottawa, Ontario to Kingston on Lake Ontario. Yellow fever was also reported.
http://bing.search.sympatico.ca/?q=Rideau%20canal%20malaria%20and%20yellow%20fever&mkt=en-ca&setLang=en-CA
So much for malaria expanding into more northerly climes with global warming (of <1C). The period was still coming out of the Little Ice Age, too. What happened to a colder N. American malaria – I suppose draining standing water and insecticides probably helped irradicate it.
Did you know that while the Arctic set a record low for sea ice amount last winter, two weeks later the Antarctic set a record HIGH for sea ice amount?
See your sea ice page.
Did you know?….
Increased moisture in the air is a coolant? As the evaporation process takes place moisture absorbes heat and the resultant vapour transports heat away from the abject that is wet and now drying. Lookup the “coolgardie fridge”.
Experiment with wet (not dripping) Towels hanging on the inside of a car’s doors (jammed by the closed doors) and slightly open windows (about 2 inches) on a sunny day.
It’ll be tropical humid in there but cooler than the car next to it that in not using the evaporative cooling effect.
Try it for yourself. Your own little greenhouse and greenhouse gas expriment.
Did you know that reported increases in US temperatures since 1900 are largely an artifact of “adjustments” to measured temperatures?
See: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/13/warming-in-the-ushcn-is-mainly-an-artifact-of-adjustments/
This could be illustrated using a split graphic that plots the ushcn cumulative adjustment by year in one pane (ref: http://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/monthly-global.png) with smoothed raw and adjusted temperature in the other pane (ref: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/ushcn/mean2.5X3.5_pg.gif)
The linked graphs are just illustrative. It would be preferable to use the v2.0 data set and present the data in C for consistency with other figures.
Jon Salmi says “A simple graph of temperature versus CO2 from 1900 to the present would amply demonstrate that the two measurements are not correlated.”
Evidently, Mr Salmi, you never bothered to plot such a graph, though to do so is extremely easy. Here’s one:
That Arctic Ice area is currently recovering faster than ever before in the satellite monitored period.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/arctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
Did you know that not a single model used by the IPCC successfully predicted temperature variations between 1997 and 2012? Related: Did you know that averaging multiple wrongs doesn’t make a right?
Did you know that our current warming period is the sixth to the warmest in the last 10,000 years? In order from warmest to least warm: the Holocene Climate Optimum, Egyptian Warming, Miocene Warming, Roman Warming, Medieval Warm Period, and current warm period. Each warm period was not as warm as its predecessor, and our current interglacial period, the Holocene, is much cooler than its predecessor, the Eemian of 125,000 years ago.
Did you know that Venus has more than a quarter-million times as much CO2 in its atmosphere as Earth, and receives about twice the solar energy? The “runaway Venus” comparison is not realistic.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
Did you know that an article in the Oct. 16, 1998 issue of Science showed America to be a net carbon sink, based on higher concentrations of CO2 over the North Pacific Coast than the North Atlantic Coast, with the prevailing winds blowing West to East?
Peter Huber has written about this little-publicized study in a number of articles and in his book, The Bottomless Well.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0405/6307126a.html
Huber has received a lot of dismissive criticism over this claim and there are later studies that dispute it. In his Feb. 2000 Manhattan Institute debate with Bill McKibben, he stated that the later studies were based on inventories of CO2, and that there were a lot of ways to miss inventory. The debate can be downloaded as an MP3 here:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/events_audio.htm
Did you know that there is no empirical data to prove that adding C2 to the atmopshere from current levels causes global temperatures to rise?
Did you know that there is no CO2 signal in any temperature/time graph?
Did you know your skin experiences air temperature via atmospheric molecules colliding with you? Did you know that for 2,500 collisions between your skin and a molecule of air, approximately one will be from a CO2 molecule?
Fox is most definitely MSM, and they most definitely toe the line w.r.t. climate change on average. They do, however, offer up counter points on occasion that other MSM outlets tend to ignore. The only people that think Fox is in the tank for the Republican Party in the US are those that don’t actually read their webpage or watch their news (or understand the difference between analysts and reporters).
Mark
to impress the lay person anthony, try
Did You Know –
the hypothesis of manmade global warming relies on just 3 manmade temperature data sets, not raw data:
UM Met Office: Results for surface temperature
Overview
Met Office scientists have compared the three datasets. The long-term trends and large-scale patterns of temperature are similar, but the three analyses do not agree on all the details. These differences arise from slight differences in source data and the different choices made by the three centres in processing the data.
Met Office-CRU (HadCRUT3): Data are averaged on to a regular grid. Where there is no data, the grid boxes are left empty.
NCDC (NOAA): Data are averaged on to a regular grid. Where this is no data some of the gaps are filled by interpolation, in a way which is consistent with the surrounding observations.
GISS (NASA): Data are interpolated over much wider regions where none is available (such as the oceans and near the Poles) to a maximum distance of 1200 km.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/guide/science/monitoring
For this to work you could only display known scientific facts and with so many people like Gary around they would need to be bullet proof.
Did you know?
“There is a credible risk that the Earth will be attacked by aliens within the next hundred years, perhaps as soon as ten years from now. Because no evidence has been uncovered to refute this theory, then there is a high probability that it is true.
In light of the virtual certainty that there will be an attack, and due to the tragic consequences if we do not take preventative measures – even if you believe the probability of an attack is low – we must all change the way we live and devote significant resources to warding off this threat.”
Explanation: The theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is no more valid than the theory of an alien invasion, discussed above. Both theories violate the Scientific Method, whereby observations or evidence must support a hypothesis (theory) before it can be accepted. The absence of proof that a theory is wrong does not make it right.
(The above needs some “word smithing” but hopefully you get the gist. I was reminded of this issue when a recent caller to a radio show said that he knew CO2 was a dire threat because he hadn’t seen one study that supported the theory that it wasn’t. He had it backwards.)
Did you know that none of the IPCC’s published temperature models to year 2100 can be testable therefore does NOT meet the scientific method.
Did you know?…
that refrigeration manufacturers use Co2 as a coolant!