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October 30, 2009
Category: general
(why am I thinking about cocaine now?) So recently two very prolific climate contrarian commenters picked up their toys and went home. Skip did a nice piece on that surprise event. crakar was one of my most prolific commenters,...
Posted by coby at 8:07 AM • 39 Comments •
October 26, 2009
Category: roundup
Logging the Onset of the Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
Posted by coby at 7:49 AM • 0 Comments •
October 25, 2009
Category: debunking
Crakar said: The peer-reviewed literature is unanimous in finding that the residence-time of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 7 years. The UN's climate panel, however, chooses a complex and unsatisfactory definition of residence-time that allows it to pretend that...
Posted by coby at 7:26 AM • 20 Comments •
October 24, 2009
Category: debunking
Crakar said: Sea level is scarcely rising: The average rise in sea level over the past 10,000 years was 4 feet/century. During the 20th century it was 8 inches. In the past four years, sea level has scarcely risen at...
Posted by coby at 9:10 AM • 1 Comments •
October 23, 2009
Category: debunking
Crakar said: The 3300 Argo bathythermograph buoys deployed throughout the world's oceans since late in 2003 have shown a slight cooling of the oceans over the past five years, directly contrary to the official theory that any "global warming" not...
Posted by coby at 10:07 AM • 9 Comments •
October 22, 2009
Category: debunking
Crakar said: We are shown the results of computer model programmes that predict an apocolyptic future, these programs are based on modelling 16 (yes thats right only 16) parameters, many are considered by the IPCC as having a very low...
Posted by coby at 9:00 AM • 14 Comments •
October 21, 2009
Category: debunking
Crakar said: We are told that increasing CO2 levels cause/are causing the temps to rise, however the geological record shows this to be the opposite. Even if we look at the past 70 years (post 1940) when mans activity is...
Posted by coby at 8:45 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: general
Let's continue the Hockey Stick Open thread, as suggested by skip, under a new title. A great place to pick it up is skip's most excellent response to a comment from crakar. He totally nailed all of crakar's various diversions...
Posted by coby at 7:17 AM • 46 Comments •
October 19, 2009
Category: roundup
Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
Posted by coby at 7:46 AM • 0 Comments •
October 16, 2009
Category: editorial
There is an overwhelming consensus supporting the basic tenets of anthropogenic global warming theory. Those tenets are that CO2 levels are rising, this rise is caused by human activity, this rise is causing a rapid warming trend and this trend...
Posted by coby at 6:35 PM • 5 Comments •
