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Define rapidly. Examples
The science disagrees. I don't see any such demands being made by science.
You mean like GMOs?
We are experiencing an anomalous change in climate with a correlated rise in CO2 levels. That rise in CO2 levels is attributable to the combustion of materials which in which CO2 was sequestered hundreds of millions of years ago. The increase increase in CO2 levels "should" show a higher temperature increase than that which has been observed in the past decade and a half, which implies that there are mitigating factors and also implies causation.
I agree that preparing for increasing unpleasantness is advised, scratch that, required. I disagree that nothing can be done to mitigate it in the long term.
How you get that from the statement from Kirkby.
BUT the experiment most certainly shows that: we know that the sun regulates cosmic radiation.....and that those particles are the most important aspect of cloud seeding on earth.
At this point in time we cannot say if cosmic radiation impacts the climate.
He says ther is NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF.
At this point in time we cannot say if cosmic radiation impacts the climate.
HE DID SAY IT REGULATES CLOUD FORMATION.
CERN's director-general Rolf-Dieter Heuer warned his scientists "to present the results clearly but not interpret them". Readers can judge whether CLOUD's lead physicist Jasper Kirkby has followed his boss's warning.
"Ion-induced nucleation will manifest itself as a steady production of new particles that is difficult to isolate in atmospheric observations because of other sources of variability but is nevertheless taking place and could be quite large when averaged globally over the troposphere."
Kirkby is quoted in the accompanying CERN press release:
"We've found that cosmic rays significantly enhance the formation of aerosol particles in the mid troposphere and above. These aerosols can eventually grow into the seeds for clouds. However, we've found that the vapours previously thought to account for all aerosol formation in the lower atmosphere can only account for a small fraction of the observations – even with the enhancement of cosmic rays."
as far as that dribble you keep implying that they failed at their experiment.
Krakatoa
I'll re-post some of the data I presented in a related ATS thread this week that I believe is relevant to the discussion here.
Newsweek Hides Global Warming Denier's Financial Ties to Big Oil
From that excellent investigative piece in Harper's on the funding behind the climate skepticism "industry":
......Lindzen, for his part, charges oil and coal interests $2,500 a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote, entitled "Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus," was underwritten by OPEC.
His research may be funded entirely by the government, but Lindzen himself -- his kids' college tuition, his mortgage payments -- have at least in part been funded by Big Oil and Big Coal, including OPEC for crying out loud!
But wait, it gets worse. ...
InTheFlesh1980
reply to post by Phage
Ok. He's right and the whole panel is wrong. No more to say about it I guess.
Got it. Thanks.
At least speak to the content of his statement. His credentials are undeniable.
What about his criticisms of the report?
Edit: And as for the "panel", I'm pretty sure getting on the panel is like everything else like this in life. You obtain your prestigious position on the IPCC panel after it is determined that you are onboard with the agenda.
Why would they elect a scientist to the "panel" if that would run the risk of undermining the pre-determined outcome of the fudged data?
edit on 9/30/2013 by InTheFlesh1980 because: (no reason given)
No doubt. Don't really care much about that.
The Planet will be here, alive and well long after we have all been extinct.