bump for abraham3.
you seem to think that I am totally unfounded in my concerns over the veracity of climate science papers, the adherence to principles by the journals publishing them, and the way the IPCC selects its references and deals with dissenting opinions.
this thread has it all. Lewis' voyage from finding errors in much cited data, being refused the data and code from the author, being refused by the journal to enforce their rules, to getting the IPPC to make a correction only to have the 'correction' be in error as well.
as a bonus for you there is also a history Mann's hockeystick graph as it wended its way through the third and fourth IPCC reports, and the NAS, Wegman and North investigations.
hahahaha, tell me again that I am just a denier conspiracy theorist! but dont forget to actually refute the information provided.
He won`t, that "conspiracy theory" spiel is mamooth`s standard last ditch defense. The rest of them, (like Abe the 3.rd etc.) seek shelter in their 97% "skepticalscience.org" consensus bunker....while we get nuked with 4 Hiroshima bombs per second
Gee it makes you wonder how the "average global temperature" stayed down all that time before we upped it by 0.8 deg with an extra 120 ppm CO2.Our climate is absorbing a lot of heat. When scientists add up all of the heat warming the oceans, land, and atmosphere and melting the ice, they find our climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat every second.
This warming is due to more heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels means we are emitting billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. This is the main contributor to global warming.
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If it`s been "on average" staying at 287 K before we started burning oil then I wonder how the earth got rid of the 1000 watts "average solar" watts/m^2 in order to remain at an equilibrium.
Stefan Boltzmann says:
P (w/m^2) = σ * A * ε * T^4
Even though at the top of the atmosphere we get close to ε=1, P could have been no more than 385 watts/m^2 when we had 280 ppm CO2
So how did the earth radiate off the other 615 w/m^2 ?
It`s reflected without being converted into heat. There is something wrong with the "average albedo" these models use.
And with that albedo we still come up short, by 315 watts.The average albedo of the Earth is about 0.3
Unless the overall albedo was ~ 0.6 it must have been hot enough for quite some time somewhere else where Mr.Mann could not find any hockey stick trees.
....Ice has an albedo high enough (.5 to .7) to reflect the other 615 w/m^2...but that would mean that we`ve been warming up from an ice age, like we "deniers" have been saying all along.
Or perhaps those 315 w/m^2 also went into hiding deep down in the oceans like it`s doing now?
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