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Study Links Pacific Coastal Warming To Changing Winds
tranquilidad writes: In a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two authors ascribe the majority of northeast pacific coastal warming to natural atmospheric circulation and not to anthropogenic forcing. In AP's reporting, Ken Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist with the Carnegie Institution for Science, says the paper's authors, "...have not established the causes of these atmospheric pressure variations. Thus, claims that the observed temperature increases are due primarily to 'natural' processes are suspect and premature, at best." The paper's authors, on the other hand, state, "...clearly, there are other factors stronger than the greenhouse forcing that is affecting...temperatures," and that there is a "surprising degree to which the winds can explain all the wiggles in the temperature curve."
But - but - what's changing the winds so the coast is warming? Global warming! Duh!
Warming is warming, unless there's no warming. Then it's still warming, but a different kind of warming than the other warming. I mean change.
People questioning Global Warming — and the humans' responsibility for it — are traitors and war-criminals, contemptible human beings, who ought to be punished.
Science is settled! People demand show trials NOW!!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
There are those, who, in spite of evidence to the contrary, DEMAND that there be global warming, and DEMAND that it be caused by man.
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
Hypothesis, prediction, and observation. You know, actual science.
Except for the prediction part, which is pretty bad.
I would not want climate scientists as my investment advisers.
OK ... then how many spare earths have you run through climate change experiments?
I just find it ironically amusing that people are the most publicly smug about science that they can't experimentally test.