Keith Hudson wrote today:
> For those FWers who, like me, are still prepared to be sceptical about the
> findings of the IPCC report, here's an extract from an article in today's
> Sunday Times by Melanie Phillips.
>
> <<<<
> [it is said that] there are no more than 10 active scientists in the world
> who disagree with the notion of human-induced climate change.
>
> But there are thousands of scientists who disagree with the prediction of
> climatic catastrophe caused by human agency and who are utterly dismayed by
> what they see as the falsehoods of Kyoto and the IPCC report. Many have
> signed statements saying so; these are never reported.
Well, looks like these aren't reported by the Sunday Times either (where
is the list of those "thousands of scientists", and where is the text of
the "signed statements saying so" ?) -- perhaps because it's a hoax ?
> Dr Jan Veizer, the renowned geologist, has produced a definitive
> reconstruction of the world's climate history, which says there is no
> correlation between cold and warm periods and low and high levels of CO2.
> Indeed, there were long periods when rises in CO2 were accompanied by a
> drop in the average temperature. Some scientists say this report alone
> sounds the death knell for the man-made global warming theory.
Oh really ? Then have a look at the graph from Nature, vol. 329, p. 410,
which shows the temperature and atmospheric CO2 variations over the last
160,000 years -- both variables vary *synchronously* ! See online graph at
http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/~osborn/CG_Figure_34.gif
> So I repeat what I wrote before: "The jury is still out".
Yeah, thanks to fossil-fuel "experts", the jury will be out until it's
much too late for action.
During the last decades, humans have released carbon into the atmosphere
that had been stored during millions of years. Something like this has
never occurred before in the history of this planet. The global ecosystem
has no chance to react fast enough to this sudden release of so much carbon.
The only way is to reduce emissions ASAP.
> Whether the IPCC report will turn out to be plausible or not as the
> evidence accumulates over the next decade or so, there is no doubt
> whatsoever that it has been captured by a bunch of politicians (starting
> with Margaret Thatcher)
Maggie T the Green zealot, hahaha. How absurd can your CO2-revisionism get?
> trying to persuade other politicians to become equally hysterical.
Btw, in the meantime I have checked out everything about your "Yosemite
super-doom-volcano". It's definitely a *hoax*:
If you have a look at the U.S. map of potentially active volcanos at
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Gif/WesternUSA/Maps/map_potentially_active.gif
you'll see that the only volcanic structure in the Yosemite area is the
"Long Valley Caldera". According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the next
major eruption of LVC is expected in 100,000 years, and not even this
eruption will come anywhere near your doom-predictions of global dimensions.
Talk about hysterical claims !
Chris
