Alarmist attempts to spread CO2 hysteria in Alaska

Nobel Laureate Michael Schlesinger visits Alaska | APRN

Nobel Laureate and Atmospheric Scientist, Michael Schlesinger, recently made the rounds in Alaska. He spoke in Homer yesterday about climate change, and its causes and repercussions. The University of Illinois professor is a contributor to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Prize.

Actually, Schlesinger received something like 1/5000 of a Nobel PEACE Prize, awarded by Norwegian socialists (Gore got half, and "2500" IPCC folks split the other half. Note that many of the IPCC scientists very much disagree with Schlesinger and Gore).

Dec '05: Global warming could halt ocean circulation, with harmful results

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Absent any climate policy, scientists have found a 70 percent chance of shutting down the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean over the next 200 years, with a 45 percent probability of this occurring in this century. The likelihood decreases with mitigation, but even the most rigorous immediate climate policy would still leave a 25 percent chance of a thermohaline collapse.

“This is a dangerous, human-induced climate change,” said Michael Schlesinger, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The shutdown of the thermohaline circulation has been characterized as a high-consequence, low-probability event. Our analysis, including the uncertainties in the problem, indicates it is a high-consequence, high-probability event.”