Monday, January 09, 2012

Mountain Hail In Colorado Could Disappear - Science News - redOrbit

 Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains by 2070, according to a new modeling study by scientists from NOAA and several other institutions.

Hayden on Gleick: Ad hominem, phony and confused | JunkScience.com

In science, nobody gives a damn what you believe; if you’re lucky, somebody may care about your data or analysis. Accordingly, a nose count of who believes what is irrelevant. The figure that Gleich

cites—97% of climate scientists—is phony; it is from a very small sample of climate alarmists, but even if representative, it would still be irrelevant.

There is a well-vetted list of 39,000 scientists and engineers (www.oism.org) who have publicly taken a position against the IPCC’s conclusions. Their fields of expertise are as varied as the fields that are relevant to climate, but all of them are experts in scientific inference in their own fields. But their existence is also irrelevant to the scientific questions.

YOUTUBE: Punjab snowfall: It's a first in decades | Climate Realists

BBC News - Carbon emissions 'will defer Ice Age'

He suggested that the value of 240ppm CO2 needed to trigger the next glaciation might however be too low - other studies suggested the value could be 20 or even 30ppm higher.

"But in any case, the problem is how do we get down to 240, 250, or whatever it is? Absorption by the oceans takes thousands or tens of thousands of years - so I don't think it's realistic to think that we'll see the next glaciation on the [natural] timescale," Prof Mysak explained.

VICTORIA TAFT: The Lecture BANNED BY OMSI: 'Is Human Caused Global Warming the Greatest Scientific Myth of our Generation?'

As you may have read here and here, OMSI --the outfit that claims to be about scientific inquisitiveness---has turned inquisitor and cancelled a presentations by skeptics of the man made global warming theory. Now it's been rescheduled--away from OMSI. 

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