From: Marvin the Martian on
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:34:24 +0000, Sam Wormley wrote:


> Can understand the science?
>
> Can you understand the science, Marvin?

Yes. I explained some of the many reasons why global warming should be
obvious bullshit to any real scientist.

1) The Chemistry of equilibrium said we didn't put the CO2 there.
2) "Correlation proves causation" is a fallacy.
3) Appeal to consensus is a fallacy.
4) Appeal to authority is a fallacy.
5) There is a stronger correlation to solar cycle, and there is NO WAY
CO2 can be a cause of solar cycle. It MUST be an effect to a common cause.
6) Svensmark proved the common cause in two famous papers. His hypothesis
predicted, and was consistent with the last 4.5 BILLION years of climate
data.

Those were just some of the points I hit on. Posers pretending to be
scientist like yourself only come back with stupid snide remarks, while
running away from the scientific issues.

When faced with the smoking gun proving it was all a fraud, all you can
do is cast some insults to defend this stupid lie.


From: Sam Wormley on
Marvin the Martian wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:34:24 +0000, Sam Wormley wrote:
>
>
>> Can understand the science?
>>
>> Can you understand the science, Marvin?
>
> Yes. I explained some of the many reasons why global warming should be
> obvious bullshit to any real scientist.
>

The greenhouse gas effect of CO2, O3, CH4, H2O and N2O have been
known for a long time.

You really ought to start taking global climate change seriously,
Marvin. Here is a resource for you to look at.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring/index.php

Also from today's meeting I attended: Presentation of Dr. Eugene S. Takle’s
White Paper, “Assessment of Potential Impacts of Climate Changes on Iowa
Using Current Trends and Future Projections”.
From: Bernd Felsche on
Sam Wormley <swormley1(a)mchsi.com> wrote:
>Marvin the Martian wrote:

>> Yes. I explained some of the many reasons why global warming should be
>> obvious bullshit to any real scientist.

> The greenhouse gas effect of CO2, O3, CH4, H2O and N2O have been
> known for a long time.

> You really ought to start taking global climate change seriously,
> Marvin. Here is a resource for you to look at.
> http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring/index.php

Seriously?

From 1079108576.txt of the leaked FOIA emails:
In 2004
> Chick Keller wrote:
...
>> I also think people need to come to understand that the
>> scientific uncertainties work both ways. We don't
>> understand cloud feedbacks. We don't understand air-sea
>> interactions. We don't understand aerosol indirect
>> effects. The list is long. ...

1255523796.txt 14 Oct 2009
Kevin Trenberth:
How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are
no where close to knowing where energy is going or whether
clouds are changing to make the planet brighter. We are not
close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can
not account for what is happening in the climate system
makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as
we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not!
It is a travesty!

1255530325.txt 14 Oct 2009
Michael Mann responding:
Kevin, that's an interesting point. As the plot from Gavin I
sent shows, we can easily account for the observed surface
cooling in terms of the natural variability seen in the
CMIP3 ensemble (i.e. the observed cold dip falls well within
it). So in that sense, we can "explain" it. But this raises
the interesting question, is there something going on here
w/ the energy & radiation budget which is inconsistent with
the modes of internal variability that leads to similar
temporary cooling periods within the models. I'm not sure
that this has been addressed--has it?

1255532032.txt 14 Oct 2009
From: Michael Mann <mann(a)meteo.psu.edu>
To: Kevin Trenberth <trenbert(a)ucar.edu>
Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate

thanks Kevin, yes, it's a matter of what question one is
asking. to argue that the observed global mean temperature
anomalies of the past decade falsifies the model projections
of global mean temperature change, as contrarians have been
fond of claiming, is clearly wrong. but that doesn't mean we
can explain exactly what's going on. there is always the
danger of falling a bit into the "we don't know everything,
so we know nothing" fallacy. hence, I wanted to try to
clarify where we all agree, and where there may be
disagreement,

mike

On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:36 AM,
Kevin Trenberth wrote:

Mike
Here are some of the issues as I see them:
Saying it is natural variability is not an explanation.
What are the physical processes? Where did the heat go? We
know there is a build up of ocean heat prior to El Nino, and
a discharge (and sfc T warming) during late stages of El
Nino, but is the observing system sufficient to track it?
Quite aside from the changes in the ocean, we know there are
major changes in the storm tracks and teleconnections with
ENSO, and there is a LOT more rain on land during La Nina
(more drought in El Nino), so how does the albedo change
overall (changes in cloud)? At the very least the extra
rain on land means a lot more heat goes into evaporation
rather than raising temperatures, and so that keeps land
temps down: and should generate cloud. But the resulting
evaporative cooling means the heat goes into atmosphere and
should be radiated to space: so we should be able to track
it with CERES data. The CERES data are unfortunately
wonting and so too are the cloud data. The ocean data are
also lacking although some of that may be related to the
ocean current changes and burying heat at depth where it is
not picked up. If it is sequestered at depth then it comes
back to haunt us later and so we should know about it.
Kevin

1255550975.txt 14 Oct 2009
Tom Wigley:

Kevin,

I didn't mean to offend you. But what you said was "we can't
account for the lack of warming at the moment". Now you say
"we are no where close to knowing where energy is going". In
my eyes these are two different things -- the second relates
to our level of understanding, and I agree that this is
still lacking.

Well, as long as "the science is settled".

"Travesty" is too flattering a word.
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From: Sam Wormley on
Bernd Felsche wrote:
> Sam Wormley <swormley1(a)mchsi.com> wrote:
>> Marvin the Martian wrote:
>
>>> Yes. I explained some of the many reasons why global warming should be
>>> obvious bullshit to any real scientist.
>
>> The greenhouse gas effect of CO2, O3, CH4, H2O and N2O have been
>> known for a long time.
>
>> You really ought to start taking global climate change seriously,
>> Marvin. Here is a resource for you to look at.
>> http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring/index.php
>
> Seriously?
>
> From 1079108576.txt of the leaked FOIA emails:
> In 2004
> > Chick Keller wrote:
> ...
> >> I also think people need to come to understand that the
> >> scientific uncertainties work both ways. We don't
> >> understand cloud feedbacks. We don't understand air-sea
> >> interactions. We don't understand aerosol indirect
> >> effects. The list is long. ...
>
> 1255523796.txt 14 Oct 2009
> Kevin Trenberth:
> How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are
> no where close to knowing where energy is going or whether
> clouds are changing to make the planet brighter. We are not
> close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can
> not account for what is happening in the climate system
> makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as
> we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not!
> It is a travesty!
>
> 1255530325.txt 14 Oct 2009
> Michael Mann responding:
> Kevin, that's an interesting point. As the plot from Gavin I
> sent shows, we can easily account for the observed surface
> cooling in terms of the natural variability seen in the
> CMIP3 ensemble (i.e. the observed cold dip falls well within
> it). So in that sense, we can "explain" it. But this raises
> the interesting question, is there something going on here
> w/ the energy & radiation budget which is inconsistent with
> the modes of internal variability that leads to similar
> temporary cooling periods within the models. I'm not sure
> that this has been addressed--has it?
>
> 1255532032.txt 14 Oct 2009
> From: Michael Mann <mann(a)meteo.psu.edu>
> To: Kevin Trenberth <trenbert(a)ucar.edu>
> Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate
>
> thanks Kevin, yes, it's a matter of what question one is
> asking. to argue that the observed global mean temperature
> anomalies of the past decade falsifies the model projections
> of global mean temperature change, as contrarians have been
> fond of claiming, is clearly wrong. but that doesn't mean we
> can explain exactly what's going on. there is always the
> danger of falling a bit into the "we don't know everything,
> so we know nothing" fallacy. hence, I wanted to try to
> clarify where we all agree, and where there may be
> disagreement,
>
> mike
>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:36 AM,
> Kevin Trenberth wrote:
>
> Mike
> Here are some of the issues as I see them:
> Saying it is natural variability is not an explanation.
> What are the physical processes? Where did the heat go? We
> know there is a build up of ocean heat prior to El Nino, and
> a discharge (and sfc T warming) during late stages of El
> Nino, but is the observing system sufficient to track it?
> Quite aside from the changes in the ocean, we know there are
> major changes in the storm tracks and teleconnections with
> ENSO, and there is a LOT more rain on land during La Nina
> (more drought in El Nino), so how does the albedo change
> overall (changes in cloud)? At the very least the extra
> rain on land means a lot more heat goes into evaporation
> rather than raising temperatures, and so that keeps land
> temps down: and should generate cloud. But the resulting
> evaporative cooling means the heat goes into atmosphere and
> should be radiated to space: so we should be able to track
> it with CERES data. The CERES data are unfortunately
> wonting and so too are the cloud data. The ocean data are
> also lacking although some of that may be related to the
> ocean current changes and burying heat at depth where it is
> not picked up. If it is sequestered at depth then it comes
> back to haunt us later and so we should know about it.
> Kevin
>
> 1255550975.txt 14 Oct 2009
> Tom Wigley:
>
> Kevin,
>
> I didn't mean to offend you. But what you said was "we can't
> account for the lack of warming at the moment". Now you say
> "we are no where close to knowing where energy is going". In
> my eyes these are two different things -- the second relates
> to our level of understanding, and I agree that this is
> still lacking.
>
> Well, as long as "the science is settled".
>
> "Travesty" is too flattering a word.

What does the real science say, Bernd?

I take it you hadn't heard--Recent changes in a remote Arctic lake are
unique within the past 200,000 years.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/16/0907094106


Yarrow Axforda,1, Jason P. Brinerb, Colin A. Cookec, Donna R. Francisd, Neal Micheluttie,
Gifford H. Millera,f, John P. Smole, Elizabeth K. Thomasb, Cheryl R. Wilsone and Alexander
P. Wolfec

Abstract

The Arctic is currently undergoing dramatic environmental transformations, but it remains
largely unknown how these changes compare with long-term natural variability. Here we
present a lake sediment sequence from the Canadian Arctic that records warm periods of the
past 200,000 years, including the 20th century. This record provides a perspective on
recent changes in the Arctic and predates by approximately 80,000 years the oldest
stratigraphically intact ice core recovered from the Greenland Ice Sheet. The early
Holocene and the warmest part of the Last Interglacial (Marine Isotope Stage or MIS 5e)
were the only periods of the past 200,000 years with summer temperatures comparable to or
exceeding today's at this site. Paleoecological and geochemical data indicate that the
past three interglacial periods were characterized by similar trajectories in temperature,
lake biology, and lakewater pH, all of which tracked orbitally-driven solar insolation. In
recent decades, however, the study site has deviated from this recurring natural pattern
and has entered an environmental regime that is unique within the past 200 millennia.


Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091023163513.htm

"There are periods of time reflected in this sediment core that demonstrate that the
climate was as warm as today," said Briner, "but that was due to natural causes, having to
do with well-understood patterns of the Earth's orbit around the sun. The whole ecosystem
has now shifted and the ecosystem we see during just the last few decades is different
from those seen during any of the past warm intervals."


From: Marvin the Martian on
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:16:54 +0000, Sam Wormley wrote:

> Marvin the Martian wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:34:24 +0000, Sam Wormley wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Can understand the science?
>>>
>>> Can you understand the science, Marvin?
>>
>> Yes. I explained some of the many reasons why global warming should be
>> obvious bullshit to any real scientist.
>>
>>
> The greenhouse gas effect of CO2, O3, CH4, H2O and N2O have been
> known for a long time.

And it has been known a long time that of those, only H2O has any
significant greenhouse potential. The others add trivial amounts of
warming.

It's like saying that because Sodium is paramagnetic, it clings to a
common electromagnet. No. This is non-science. Physics deals with
numbers. Frauds deal in lies, distortions and half truths.

> You really ought to start taking global climate change seriously,
> Marvin. Here is a resource for you to look at.
> http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring/index.php
>
> Also from today's meeting I attended: Presentation of Dr. Eugene S.
> Takle's White Paper, “Assessment of Potential Impacts of Climate
> Changes on Iowa Using Current Trends and Future Projections”.

Gibberish. The latter is one big "appeal to effects" fallacy based on a
lie.