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Originally posted by C0bzz
It's in the abstract for one. Page two.
Abstract
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896), and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist.
Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation. In this paper the popular conjecture is analyzed and the underlying physical principles are claried. By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric green-
house eects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned dierence of 33 C is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified. Electronic version of an article published as International Journal of Modern Physics B, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2009) 275[364 , DOI No: 10.1142/S021797920904984X, c World Scientific Publishing Company, www.worldscinet.com...
Originally posted by C0bzz
Not really, I think the answer lies somewhere here. Show me that modern climate-science is dependent on an equilibrium? It isn't.
Originally posted by C0bzz
Let's use your way of doing science..:
Hundreds? Hundreds compared to what? 58,200?
Originally posted by C0bzz
I could say the same thing about the climate deniers. For example, the science and scientists in "The Great Global Warming Swindle".
Originally posted by C0bzz
About a month ago I decided I should probably look at it fairly. And I discovered most of the claims made by climate deniers are BS.
Originally posted by C0bzz
So, no real surprise here. Misrepresent the science and then "prove" that it is wrong. Classical straw man.
Alice laughed, "There's no use trying," she said, "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
(all that stuff)
[edit on 31-1-2010 by ElectricUniverse]
So wait. I just want to get this straight. You're attacking MC for using blogs and wikipedia... and you're basing your position for doing so off of an OP/ED piece published by the national Review, which openly and happily admits its conservative political bias, written by a guy who's opposition to Global Warming amounts to "Al Gore says it so it must be wrong" and who's position on Wikipedia is largely based on the fact that Wikipedia disagrees with him?
How do you keep your head from exploding from all that cognitive dissonance?
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by Byrd
Never claimed to be.
Yet you are judging that the points presented in this paper are "trash" to you, without even debating the points themselves?
Originally posted by mc_squared
The ironic thing is I used Wikipedia as a reference on purpose - so he could see that this basic information he has completely wrong is so readily available even a 5 year old could look it up. But no he's still in complete denial claiming that Wikipedia is now in on the scam too, as if you couldn't verify that information in a million other places...
Originally posted by mc_squared
heh I am definitely not bothering with this clown anymore. He's been completely pwned in this thread - made a total a## out of himself, and yet he's still barking away at us with nothing better to say than call everyone "kid". Like he can't win the intellectual fight so he's taking it to the "street" now or something.
Originally posted by mc_squared
The ironic thing is I used Wikipedia as a reference on purpose - so he could see that this basic information he has completely wrong is so readily available even a 5 year old could look it up. But no he's still in complete denial claiming that Wikipedia is now in on the scam too, as if you couldn't verify that information in a million other places...
yeeesh.
Originally posted by Byrd
In all fairness, there was a flap about 2 years ago concerning one of the Wikipedia editors. Lawrence Solomon published on a CBS blog a diatribe against another editor and accused the editor of making all sorts of changes to tweak the data so that Wikipedia would support AGW:
www.cbsnews.com...
Some of the anti-AGW sites leaped gleefully on this and said it was a CBS news article (it's not) instead of a blog.
Global Warming
Issues with Wikipedia
In general, Wikipedia provides good information on various subjects. However, when it comes to Global Warming, the quality goes down considerably.
The main problem is that the articles push a single point of view ... very strongly. The "rules" are that new information can not be added unless it is published in a peer reviewed journal. Well, for something this controversial, that is a good rule. However, these guys cheat - even when it is in a journal, and even when written by their heroes, these guys remove anything that does not agree with their preconceived position. Really.
There is way too much to say - it is not worth my time to write it all down. This page just gives a few examples.
To be clear, I am not just discussing the Global warming page, these comments apply to most of the related pages, including biographies of people on both sides of the issue.
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How the global warming cult took control of Wikipedia
December 22, 2009, 2:00 am · 15 comments
No one’s ever accused Wikipedia of being impartial nor even particularly accurate. But Lawrence Solomon’s story in the National Post reveals how one global warming cultist, William Connolley, (PHOTO, RIGHT) single-handedly twisted the truth in more than 5,000 Wikipedia articles on global warming:
Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the worlds most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.
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Originally posted by Byrd
Things like the above lead to people shrieking about conspiracies.
Originally posted by Byrd
EU may have gotten that information from someone who read the WND article and believed that it was current news and didn't do any fact-checking or followups to the WND story.
Originally posted by Byrd
I said that that it's poorly written and its references are incorrectly cited and it wouldn't make it into any juried journal on physics. Both are true.
Originally posted by Byrd
That wasn't an opinion on content. It was an opinion on workmanship. I have read (for my degrees) well over a thousand research papers (my reading list for this degree is currently at 370 papers, many of which won't make it into the dissertation.) I know good scholarly format when I see it, and this sure wasn't it.
Originally posted by Byrd
I said nothing about my beliefs on global warming or anything else. I said nothing about the content other than I agreed with some of the quoted problems.
Originally posted by Byrd
I simply commented that they are not physicists and that their screed is an op-ed and not a research paper, no matter what the source said (your source appears to have made some unwarranted conclusions, by the way.)
Originally posted by Byrd
My quibble with the Journal of Irreproduceable results is that they just cited it and never gave references (in a professional paper you give volume, page, and author when you quote so other readers can go look it up if they have questions -- and I would have looked it up.) They cited the whole Al Gore book... no page and chapter references, cite web pages without giving the retrieval date (again, bad form because webpage content changes.)
[169] C. Essex, R. McKitrick, B. Andresen, \Does a Global Temperature Exist?" J. Non-Equil. Thermod. 32, 1-27 (2007)
Originally posted by Byrd
You didn't know a thing about my background (which is not an issue with me), but you made some wild assumptions and sneered at me before I handed you my CV. Then you proceeded to tell me what *I* believe about this issue and lecture me about your view of my beliefs.
Originally posted by Byrd
I never actually said what my beliefs are -- nor did you ask. You simply launched into a diatribe, as you did with others posting here, assigning them some sort of belief system without actually asking what they believe.
Originally posted by Byrd
Personally, I think you would do far better to ASK what a person's opinion is and ASK where they got it from rather than going off on a canned rant about what you THINK they believe.
And BTW, yeah calling kids those members who keep insulting me like they are high school children is really bad....
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the global rise of asthma an early impact of anthropogenic climate change …scielosp.org
Originally posted by Essan
Out of interest, EU (and drawing on one of Byrd's comments about finding out people's views from them rather than jumping to assumptions about what they believe), what do you mean by AGW and AGW proponent?
Originally posted by Essan
AGW is often used to refer to just carbon emission derived global warming, but obviously can refer to all aspects of anthropogenic warming - such as the effects of black carbon, contrails and land use change.
An AGW proponent may thus be someone who believes carbon emissions are causing global warming (ala the IPCC) - or someone like prominent sceptic Roger Pielke Sr who believes the effects of landuse change are a more significant and important factor, and questions much of what the IPCC etal say
Obviously, one can also be an AGW proponent and not believe in any significant - let alone catastrophic - temp rise
Current warmth seems to be occurring nearly everywhere at the same time and is largest at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. Over the last 50 years, the largest annual and seasonal warmings have occurred in Alaska, Siberia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Most ocean areas have warmed. Because these areas are remote and far away from major cities, it is clear to climatologists that the warming is not due to the influence of pollution from urban areas.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by Essan
Out of interest, EU (and drawing on one of Byrd's comments about finding out people's views from them rather than jumping to assumptions about what they believe), what do you mean by AGW and AGW proponent?
The name says it itself, Anthropogenic Global Warming is the BELIEF that mankind's activities have caused global warming when there is no real evidence for this except GCMs, which again are flawed computer models.