Dessler made an amazing comment on Revkin’s blog.
That tells you that that question of human attribution to global climate change really is settled in the mind of the scientific community.
Varied Views on Extreme Weather in a Warming Climate – NYTimes.com
Is that that that how the Borg speaks? Inside the collective, the scientific community has only one mind? The whole collective agrees – resistance is futile – you will be assimilated.
I just posted this comment on Andy Revkin’s blog pending approval by the moderator.
Varied Views on Extreme Weather in a Warming Climate – NYTimes.com
The Deseret News – Google News Archive Search
Temperatures have cooled more than half a degree since Manbearpig snooted through Hansen’s rubbish bin.
Hendrik finally got his window open a for a few minutes this morning, just in time for the next snow.
Dessler Jr. seems to be very quiet these days. Nine months ago Dessler announced permanent drought for Texas, right before he did his clueless five minute critique of Spencer.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Torrential rains and strong winds Thursday night caused scattered power outages and flooded several roadways, as area creeks came close to swelling over their banks.
If it is hot in Moscow and cool in Chicago – Moscow makes up 99% of the planet.
If it is warm in Chicago, and very cold in Moscow – Chicago makes up 99% of the planet.
Joe Bastardi suggests that Hansen may be meowing down the wrong tree. This post will stay on top today with new posts appearing below.
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Guest post by Joe Bastardi
My problem is the climate is NOT WARMING. Since the pdo flip, the three year running mean from NCEP looks like this
completely consistent with cyclical climate theory, while one can plainly see the disconnect
with co2 and IPCC forecasts ( attachment 5). In addition, in march, I said I expected a 3-5 mont surge in global means in response to the sudden fall, then the fall again to an even colder fall and winter
I hadn’t seen this before – this is classic.
Apparently Hansen claimed in 1983 that the opacity of Venus atmosphere to IR is 100 times greater than Earth.
What utter tripe. In the year 1900, Angstrom demonstrated that IR absorption in a tube of CO2 became saturated at one atmosphere, and that adding more CO2 had very little effect on opacity. Not to mention the fact that CO2 absorption bands almost completely overlap with much broader (and much more abundant) H2O absorption bands.
The atmosphere is 70-85% opaque to IR radiation. The largest possible increase is less than 50%, not 10,000% as Hansen claims.
File:Atmospheric Transmission.png – Global Warming Art
Perhaps he was confusing opacity with transparency? If Earth’s atmosphere was 0.01% transparent, and Venus atmosphere was 0.0001% transparent – then he could say that Venus atmosphere is 100X less transparent. But that difference would have almost no effect on the temperature.
Projecting future sea level rise: methodology, estimates to the year 2100
No Homer, the lapse rate on Venus is nearly identical to Earth. If opacity was the problem, the lapse rate would have to be much higher on Venus.
The reason that Venus is hot is because it has a very thick atmosphere. If the composition of Venus atmosphere was identical to Earth’s atmosphere, temperatures would still be extremely hot on Venus.
This wasn’t Hansen’s first trip into Venusian stupid space. His doctoral dissertation claimed that Venus was very hot due to aerosols – the same aerosols which he now says cool Earth and hide the missing heat.
Sometimes I wonder how this guy made it past high school.
We learned this week that climate change can be caused by either dinosaur farts or by evil white pedophile males. In 100 words or less, how do you distinguish between dinosaur fart climate change, and white male pedophile climate change?
Extra credit. Are dinosaur farts a thing of the past?
Proof of the BBC claim that climate change deniers are slave owners!
