Well, Claude, it just so happens my son in law who studies global warming at the PHD level, was a recipient of a NOAA grant for such study full time at the U of Wahington and now studies it part time along with teaching thermodynamics at the university level, and is very solid, received an interview from cambridge to teach --- was standing right here as I opened up your post.
He sort of said nonsense---i.e. if this is the warmest period in a thousand years how could the cycles, short or long be the cause? He said the suns effect would be very miner at most.
He said, since we have had satellites (70's) we can measure the sun's output with an almost perfect level of accuracy.
This idea of we need to take a middle ground is sort of like saying, lets do nothing!
Believe what you will Claude, but this is not a contest. I feel that as the right wing gets boxed in with more and more evidence they want to take their stand in the middle--i.e. we don't know , so lets not hype, or do anything.
Sort of reminds me of when the fundamentalists were confronted with so much scientific knowledge about the past (like the earth was never covered with water) they abandoned a literal translation of the bible and moved to an allegorical translation.
In a nutshell, the great preponderance of PHD level climatologist are sounding a dire warning and we should be listening to them.
The majority of the naysayers are not qualified to speak on the subject to be honest! MOST of the top atmospheric scientists are not in great doubt about man's effect on global warming. And they do not believe it is caused by the sun which can be measured with great accuracy these days.
The head of the senate for environmental affairs, a republican from Oaklahoma, and as shown on the John Stewart show (and Fox--uggg)says global warming is a hoax. Black called him a hoax!
And, in fact, your author says at the beginning he is not qualified to speak on the subject. |
