[ RadSafe ] "overwhelming" number of scientists and climate change

[Dan McCarn]

Jerry -

We've been warming since the end of the Little Ice Age.  You are familiar
with the painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware - that stream
has not frozen since the early part of the 1800s.  Glaciers have
been receding since the middle part of the 1800s such as in Switzerland.
 Much of that "warming" probably had no anthropogene cause. The concern, of
course, is whether the recent accelerated rise in temperature is
anthropogene-related.

As a geologist, I cannot help but see climate change on both small and
large cycles based on depositional characteristics of Tertiary basins such
as the Alamosa Basin in Southern Colorado.

Climate change is real... but whether it is anthropogene-related or not, I
don't know.

Dan ii

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Jerry Cohen <jjc105 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Karen,, I am curious--how do we determine what the overwhelming number of
> scientists believe  or not believe. Of the 100 or so scientisst who I might
> personally know, almost all of them believe that concern over global
> warming is
> nonsense. Of course, the number of scientisists who I might personally
> know is a
> small frection of the total number, but I suspect it might be a
> representative
> sample. Has anyone done a statistically valid survey on the subject?
> As to what do I believe-----
>     I believe I'll have another beer.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Karen Street <Karen_Street at sbcglobal.net>
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
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> Sent: Tue, July 24, 2012 12:12:54 PM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] since we're talking about climate change
>
> In the past and just now, people on this list who don't accept climate
> change
> have posted that they don't accept climate change.
>
> I am curious as to what you do believe.
>
> Please avoid explaining that the overwhelming number of scientists are
> wrong or
> read this or that this great scientist thinks other scientists are wrong.
>
> • Is Earth warming, and at what rate (in °C/decade)?
> • What is the cause? Don't use the word natural, but give particular
> mechanisms,
> such as Earth is moving closer to the sun.
>
> When I ask climate skeptics/deniers these questions, it feels like pulling
> teeth
> to get answers other than, "you're wrong, you child of Satan." Or the ones
> about
> natural or scientists are just wrong or here is my scientist (inject name
> of
> novelist or journalist) who disagrees.
>
> I really am curious.
> --
> Best wishes,
> Karen Street
> Friends Energy Project
> blog http://pathsoflight.us/musing/index.php
>
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