They say that 97% of the science is on their side, that they are 95% certain, and that we are all stupid and ignorant.
Debating ought to be a slam dunk for them. They should be able to put us down in a sentence or two. But for some reason, they invariably refuse to do that. Could it be that their actual certainty level is close to zero, and that they are completely full of shit?
This is what the smart (and handsome) one said – he thinks that witches are cooking the weather, and that legislation can change things controlled by the Sun.
“The evidence is overwhelming, the science is clear, and the threat from climate change is real and urgent.” “The threat of a warming planet to our communities, our infrastructure and our way of life is also clear, rising sea levels and increasingly severe droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and major storms
This is what the stupid one said – she thinks that global warming is a scam which is choking the economy
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called studies supporting global climate change a “bunch of snake oil science” Monday during a rare appearance in California, a state that has been at the forefront of environmental regulations.
Palin said California’s heavy regulatory environment makes it difficult for businesses to succeed, a point that is shared by many business leaders in the state.
She criticized what she said were heavy-handed environmental laws. As Alaska governor, for example, she said she sued the federal government to overturn the listing of polar bears as a threatened species.
We have been lazy, and have allowed the world’s most useless people to take over the US. Obama’s cabinet is just as bad as he is.
Obama 2007 :
“no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists… We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary.”
Leading climate experts like James Hansen say that there will be a great flood, and droughts and pestilence and war and disease and famine, and that everyone on Earth will die. These experts tell us that they are much smarter than we are.
The same climate experts also ridicule religious people who warn of a great flood, and droughts and pestilence and war and disease and famine, and that everyone on Earth will die.
That’s the difference between science and religion.
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The graph below shows the relationship between downwelling longwave radiation in the tropics (i.e. the greenhouse effect) and atmospheric CO2. I used RRTM_LW as the radiative transfer model, which is the model used by NCAR.
TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE ADJUSTED TO RIDGEWAY’S GLA MODEL
As you can see, CO2 is a very minor component of the greenhouse effect in the tropics, and almost all of its effect is in the first 20 PPM CO2. Once you get above 100 PPM CO2, adding more CO2 has almost no effect. Water vapor completely dominates, and other gases are almost irrelevant. An increase from 50 PPM to 1,000 PPM CO2 only increases downwelling longwave radiation by 1%.
The same model is used by the following organizations, and can be downloaded from this link : RRTM/RRTMG
RRTMG Global and Regional Model Applications
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