One of my useful mottos is "The roughest guess THAT GETS THE JOB DONE." That's a heavy condition, but sometime rough guesses can be helpful. They can "do" until the data "savior" or "perfection" comes along.
I don't do original research on the anthropogenic influences on climate either, but I remain skeptical about "credible" sources. I need to know more about most "credible" sources. But the precautionary principle leads me to the conclusion that, regardless of the background fluctuations of climate, it makes sense for a lot of reasons to cut back on carbon and other emissions, particularly the low-priority and wasteful ones, e.g., the lighting of advertising signs . . . WT At 06:35 PM 10/12/2007, Larry T. Spencer wrote: >As someone who has followed this area very closely (though not doing >research per se), it is interesting that the site that lists the >prominent scientists is none other than the blog of Sen. Imhofe of >Oklahoma who when he was chair of the committee had requested tons of >materials from the people who had put together the long term record of >temperature change. He is the same Senator, who made some outrageous >statements about the science and its practitioners. > >We do know that climate has been quite variable in the past, with some >pretty large swings, Luckily, we weren't present when those swings took >place. Unfortunately, we are here today and in ever growing numbers >and living in locations that will be quickly affected by even minimal >changes in sea level. We all saw what impact the loss of the wetland >buffers had on New Orleans with respect to Katrina. A little bit of >sea level rise with strong on-shore winds will wreck havoc in many >parts of the world. Recent reports by the National Snow/Ice Center in >Boulder indicates that more sea ice has melted in the past decade than >in previous decades. Although the melting of sea ice does not increase >sea level, the melting of the glaciers on Greenland certainly will. I >hope Paul's house is not at sea level :) > >Larry > >-- >Larry T. Spencer, Professor Emeritus of Biology >Plymouth State University > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
