Global Warming Debunker Debunked

Earlier this month we ran an article linking Christopher Monckton's attempt to discredit global warming. The submitter asked plaintively, "Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong?" George Monbiot has now done so. From the article: "This is a dazzling debunking of climate change science. It is also wildly wrong... In keeping with most of the articles about climate change in [the Sunday Telegraph], it is a mixture of cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation, and pseudo-scientific gibberish. But it has the virtue of being incomprehensible to anyone who is not an atmospheric physicist... As for James Hansen, he did not tell the US Congress that temperatures would rise by 0.3C by the end of the past century. He presented three possible scenarios to the US Senate — high, medium, and low. Both the high and low scenarios, he explained, were unlikely to materialise. The middle one was 'the most plausible.' As it happens, the middle scenario was almost exactly right. He did not claim, under any scenario, that sea levels would rise by several feet by 2000." And on the political front, the only major ally for Pres. Bush's stand on global warming, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard, is now willing to look at carbon trading.

Comments

Re:Global Hubris

[redelm]

800 kg/m2 per year rain is hardly negligible. It would make a 0.7%wt solution if it completely scrubbed the atmosphere in one year. That's about the same as solubility at 350 ppmv and 5'C. But rain is usually warmer, sol less dissolves.

Yes, rainfall is variable, but not as localized as anthropogenic CO2 emissions. It all mixes, or we'd have local warming.

Re:Here! Here! Democrats the SCIENCE Party

[Doc Ruby]

Thank you for your post-ironic comment. Anonymous Republican Cowards have finally gone so insane, you're spewing the truth while crying the bitter tears of the beaten minority.

Don't worry, the Democrats will make sure you're not sacrificed to an angry god just because you're peculiar.

Re:Here! Here! Democrats the SCIENCE Party

[Doc Ruby]

Just because you can't tell Republicans from Democrats doesn't mean there isn't a difference. And you don't speak for all. Especially when banging that tired old drum.

Politics is the art of the possible. Just because you're an anarchist doesn't mean we have to let the corporations take over.