Much less about misunderstanding at all about the issue of saturation, a criticism of Arrhenius that has been addressed many, many times and kicked out of science as an issue by Manabe and others in the 1960s.
Mike On 5/31/13 1:33 PM, "David Lewis" <[email protected]> wrote: > According to the University of Waterloo News: "The peer reviewed paper > published this week not only provides fundamental understanding of the ozone > hole and global climate change but has superior predictive capabilities > compared with the conventional sunlight driven ozone depleting and CO2 warming > models". This UW article, "Global Warming caused by CFCs, not carbon > dioxide' is here > <http://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/global-warming-caused-cfcs-not-carbon-dioxide-s > tudy-says> . The article contains a picture of a proud Dr. Lu. > > A version of Dr. Lu's paper is on arxiv, i.e. here > <http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1210/1210.6844.pdf> . Quoting from that > paper: "it was shown [Lu cites previous papers of his own to substantiate > this] that there has been absolute saturation, i.e. no GHG effect associated > with the increasing concentrations of non-halogen gases, since the 1950s". > > Because no matter how much the concentration of trace gases in the atmosphere > other than halocarbons increases in the coming decades there will be no > warming of the planet as a result, and because the concentration of > halocarbons in the atmosphere is declining, Dr. Lu makes this superior > prediction: > > > > <http://uwaterloo.ca/news/sites/ca.news/files/styles/body-500px-wide/public/up > loads/images/20130528%20-%20CFCs%20Climate%20Change1.png> > > The dean of the faculty of science at the University of Waterloo buys this. > According to UW's Waterloo News, that dean, Terry McMahon, said this: "This > study underlines the importance of understanding the basic science underlying > ozone depletion and global climate change". > > Indeed. > > Incidentally, Dr. Lu appears to have no interest in, and does not account for, > the rising heat content of the global ocean, in this paper. > > > > On Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:25:18 AM UTC-7, andrewjlockley wrote: >> Poster's note : if this is real, it will create quite a fuss. Some humble pie >> will be eaten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
