Skeptic Summaries Climate Skeptic. I received an email based interview request on climate a while back from Esquire Middle East. I have decided to include my whole response below. The questions they ask are nearly as informative as anything I say, as they betray that the editors of the publication have pretty much bought into not only global warming alarmism, but all the memes alarmists use to discredit skeptics. Its pretty clear all they know about the skeptics position is what they hear from alarmists about skeptics. Anyway, I responded to this from a hotel room in Kentucky and didnt give it my best but I think it may be interesting to you. The questions are in bold, my answers in normal font. Do you believe that global warming and climate change are a grave problem to the world at the moment IF NOWhat gives you reason to believe that global warming and climate change are not really happeningI dont deny they are happening, and neither do any other science based skeptics. Alarmists like to tell the public that skeptics are taking these positions, in order to discredit them. The climate is always changing without any help from man a good example is the drying up of North Africa over the last centuries. The period from 1. Is there any scientific evidence to support that global warming and climate change is not really that harmful. I wrote a 9. 0 minute presentation on this so it is hard to be brief. But here are a couple of thoughts. I dont deny greenhouse gas theory, that mans CO2 can cause some incremental warming. The greenhouse gas theory has to be real, or the world would be much colder right now. Bengali Books Pdf. No, what I deny is the catastrophe, that temperatures a hundred years hence will be five or ten degrees Celsius higher due to mans co. Interestingly, I think most everyone on the scientific end of the debate agrees that the direct warming from mans Co. Celsius by the year 2. IPCC.   Yeah, I know this seems oddly low you never hear of global warming numbers as low as 1 degree but it is actually a second theory, independent of greenhouse gas theory, that drives most of the warming. This second theory is that the climate is dominated by strong positive feedbacks that  multiply the warming from CO2 many fold, and increase a modest 1 degree C of warming from mans CO2 to catastrophic levels of 5 or even 1. The example I use is to think of climate as a car. Co. The catastrophe comes from a second theory that the car representing the climate is perched precariously on the top of a hill with its brakes off, and a nudge from CO2 will start it rolling downhill until it crashes at the bottom. When people say the science is settled, they generally mean greenhouse gas theory. But that means only the nudge is settled. What is far from settled is the second theory of strong net positive feedback in the climate, ie the theory the climate is perched on top of a hill. It is unusual for long term stable but chaotic systems to be dominated by such strong positive feedbacks. In fact, only the most severe contortions allow scientists to claim their high sensitivity models of catastrophic warming are consistent with the relatively modest warming of the past century. The amount of unusual climate change we are seeing is GROSSLY exaggerated. We seem to be suffering under a massive case of observer bias in assessing any current effects of climate change. Extreme events, which have always existed, are used by both sides of the debate as supposed proof of long term global trends. But there is little useful we can learn about trends at the tails of the distribution, and it turns out that the means of key weather events in the US, from droughts to wet weather to tornadoes to hurricanes, show no meaningful trends. We have this incredible hubris that by watching a chaotic system for about 2. But climate has 3. We dont even know what is normal, so how can we say we are seeing things that are abnormal. We have seen a lot of melting sea ice in the Arctic, but we think we may have seen as much in the 1. And Antarctic Sea ice has been higher than normal while Arctic has been below normal. Hurricanes are another great example. Al Gore swore that Hurricane Katrina was man made, but it turns out there is actually a declining worldwide trend in hurricane and cyclone activity and energy, so much so that we hit the lowest level in 2. Or take sea level rise. Sea levels are rising today and glaciers are shrinking. De Jogos Para Pc Gratis Fifa. Sea levels are rising because they were rising in 1. Atmosphere Weather And Climate Barry Pdf CreatorSea levels have been steadily rising 1 3mm a year since about 1. Ditto glacier retreat, which began around 1. Imagine we wanted to look at customer visitation at a local restaurant that just closed after 6. If we watched for only a few hours, we might miss the huge variability of the crowds from early morning through each mealtime rush. Watch only for a day, and we might miss the seasonal variation, as vacationers pack the restaurant in March. Watch for just a year, and we might have missed the long, slow decline in visitation that eventually led to the restaurant closing. In climate, we are trying to decide if there is a long term decline at the restaurant after watching for the equivalent of only a few hours. The reporting on whether manmade climate change is already happening is just awful. We see something happen that we cant remember happening in the last 2. Its absurd, and amazing to me that we skeptics are called anti scientific when the science being practiced is so awful. The problem is that for academics, who are always scrambling for funds, climate change has become the best source of money. So you cant just say you are studying acne, you have to say you are studying the effect of manmade climate change on acne. Essentially, we have told the academic world that they can get much more money for their work if they claim to see climate change. So is it any surprise they find it under every rock Are most scientists wrong I find judging science by counting scientists to be unproductive, so I have no idea. I will say that a lot of folks who sign petitions in support of the alarmist position have not really looked carefully at the science, they are merely showing support because they have been told skeptics are a bunch of religious fundamentalist anti science types, so they want to express their support for science. It is ironic, as we found in the Climategate emails, that in fact they are supporting bad science, a small core group of scientists who have resisted normal scientific process of sharing data and replication. MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen Demonization of CO2 is irrational at best and even modest warming is mostly beneficial. When someone says this is the. We have one way forward, to expose and halt the climate engineeringweather warfare assault. This effort will take each and every one of us, make your voice heard. Radiation.png' alt='Atmosphere Weather And Climate Barry Pdf To Excel' title='Atmosphere Weather And Climate Barry Pdf To Excel' />For some reason, we love to scare ourselves. Or, more likely, many people, particularly younger folks, like to feel that there is some way they can save the world, to deal with their own feelings of insignificance. And one cant save the world unless it is in crisis. Every generation has these crises, and they are almost always overblown. Look at Paul Ehrlich he has been wrong about 2. He said a billion people would die of starvation by 1. He is just about never right, but people still lap up every thing he says. 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