Aug 07 2008
The Great Season Climatic Oscillation and the Global Warming
Submitted yesterday to the Arxiv. I didn’t make it past the second sentence in the abstract. I’ll be taking bets on who the first denier is to reference it.
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*Tsk*, there you go again - stifling debate. That’s why this blog is not scientific.
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What is it with the anti-science crowd and “violation” of 2nd thermo?
I hate it when the deniers use ‘argument by ridicule’ to attack climate change. E.g. some recent comments I’ve seen on the net about the link between Kidney Stones and climate change. I don’t think its healthy for ‘warmers’ to use the same tactics.
But if you think the second sentence is bad, try the fourth sentence. Evidently reflecting radiation from CO2 is in violation of the second law of thermo, but reflecting radiation from clouds isn’t.
[Reply: CO2 doesn't reflect radiation (or at least that's not the reason for the greenhouse effect). It absorbs directionally focused infrared radiation ('outward' to space). And it emits radiation isotropically (in all direction) because it has a temperature above absolute zero.]
Then a reference is made to the ‘great season climate oscillation’ theory. Data from the last 10 years for the THC is in rough agreement with the predictions of an 800 year great season.
A paper is referenced. google doesn’t give me the exact title of this paper. The closest match is about the same great climate osillation. Justification for the claim that the cycle is 800 years:
‘Without having all data necessary to the exact determination of the period of these climatic oscillations generating the great seasons, and while basing on historic observations I estimate this period to eight centuries’.
Well I’ve learned something new today about how far the skeptics are willing to go in disputing sound science……
[...] and how sloppy “the other side” can really get to try and confuse the general public. Atmoz is taking bets on which skeptic will be the first to cite this. I’m pretty confident Inhofe [...]
Maybe because it is right out of Egyptian astrology, teh sceince indeed