[ RadSafe ] Global Warming

[Chris Steinmann]

This topic has interested me greatly over the past 10 years, mostly b/c I
attended a very "green," dare I say, liberal and public university during
the heat of this global climate change debate.  I was constantly appalled
that otherwise known as relatively noteworthy scientists, some distinguished
professors refused to acknowledge simple facts that, to me, immediately
discredit the theory.  The graphs that were shown to me, in particularly
ones produced by the IPCC, clearly indicated that atmospheric gaseous
changes were a result of temperature change, not the other way around.  I
also remember learning this from my 5th grade Earth Science teacher.
But these same scientists who were adamant on "closing the book" on the
debate, were in some cases very calculated with impressive research that
they would never "close the book."  With other subjects they would welcome
insightful, inquisitive and thought provoking comments.
What happened?

-Chris

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Otto Raabe <ograabe at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

>
> December 3, 2009
>
> The earth is now in the eleventh year of a slow global cooling trend
> following a local peak temperature in 1998. Atmospheric carbon dioxide
> levels have been going up but the earth's temperature has not. Atmospheric
> scientists should be aware that there is too little carbon dioxide in the
> atmosphere to have a major effect on the Earth's temperature and there is
> really no meaningful correlation between carbon dioxide levels and the earth
> average temperature over past centuries. Even the Earth's recent local peak
> temperature in 1998 was low in comparison to the peak about 1,000 years ago
> when Erik-the-Red went to "Greenland" and found fertile green meadows and a
> pleasant warm climate in summer. The earth is now very near the average
> temperature of the last 2,000 years and is in a cooling phase associated
> with low sunspot activity.
>
> References:
>
> Loehle, C. 2007. A 2000-year global temperature reconstruction based on
> non-tree ring proxies. Energy and Environment, 18, 1049-1058.
>
> Loehle, C. and J.H. McCulloch. 2008. Correction to: A 2000-year global
> temperature reconstruction based on non-tree ring proxies. Energy and
> Environment, 19, 93-100.
>
>
> Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
> Center for Health & the Environment
> University of California
> One Shields Avenue
> Davis, CA 95616
> E-Mail: ograabe at ucdavis.edu
> Phone: (530) 752-7754   FAX: (530) 758-6140
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