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Climate Scientist: Record-Setting Mid-Atlantic - Page 37 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 12th Feb, 2010 - 9:50pm
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Global warming has been in and out as the "latest" hot topic for many years. It is, according to modern scientists, the result of man-made industrial pollutants, clearing forested areas, agriculture, etc. But now they are thinking it started way before the Industrial Revolution...Sponsored Links:
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The smartest ones here is all the third world countires looking for a handout from it.
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This is a thoughtful and very well-written article by a professor of ecological research. You have to read the whole article to get the reference to "the big bull moose."
DECEMBER 19, 2009
The Wall Street Journal online
Global Warming and an Odd Bull Moose
By DANIEL B. BOTKIN
QUOTE With the Copenhagen climate conference drawing to a close, and the perhaps-compromised science of global warming everywhere in the news, the big bull moose came to mind as a reminder of the difference between the way much of environmental science has been approached and the way nature actually works.
Most of the major forecasting tools used in global-warming research, including the global climate models (known as general circulation models of the atmosphere) and those used to forecast possible ecological effects of global warming, paint a picture of nature more like a Hudson River School still-life than like the moose that kicked at the shore. These forecasting methods assume that nature undisturbed by people is in a steady state, that there is a balance of nature, and that warnings the climate is at a tipping point mean that the system is about to lose its balance.
In fact, however, nature has never been constant. It is always changing, and life on Earth has evolved and adapted to those changes. Indeed many species, if not most, require change to persist. So there is something fundamentally wrong in most approaches to forecasting what might happen if the climate warms. The paradigm is wrong and has to change. But such fundamental change in human ideas never comes easily, and it is often resisted by those whose careers have been based on the old way of thinking. In addition, the general circulation models are such complex computer programs, and have been developed over so many years, that a fundamental change in the entire way of thinking about climate dynamics and its ecological implications is all the more difficult.
The recently revealed emails from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, better known as "Climategate," illustrates the difficulty of letting go of old, perhaps flawed methods. We who work in environmental sciences and on global warming need to open ourselves to a much greater variety of ways of thinking about nature. We need to develop forecasting methods that are appropriate for always-changing, non-steady-state systems where chance-randomness-is inherent.
Most of the major forecasting tools used in global-warming research, including the global climate models (known as general circulation models of the atmosphere) and those used to forecast possible ecological effects of global warming, paint a picture of nature more like a Hudson River School still-life than like the moose that kicked at the shore. These forecasting methods assume that nature undisturbed by people is in a steady state, that there is a balance of nature, and that warnings the climate is at a tipping point mean that the system is about to lose its balance.
In fact, however, nature has never been constant. It is always changing, and life on Earth has evolved and adapted to those changes. Indeed many species, if not most, require change to persist. So there is something fundamentally wrong in most approaches to forecasting what might happen if the climate warms. The paradigm is wrong and has to change. But such fundamental change in human ideas never comes easily, and it is often resisted by those whose careers have been based on the old way of thinking. In addition, the general circulation models are such complex computer programs, and have been developed over so many years, that a fundamental change in the entire way of thinking about climate dynamics and its ecological implications is all the more difficult.
The recently revealed emails from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, better known as "Climategate," illustrates the difficulty of letting go of old, perhaps flawed methods. We who work in environmental sciences and on global warming need to open ourselves to a much greater variety of ways of thinking about nature. We need to develop forecasting methods that are appropriate for always-changing, non-steady-state systems where chance-randomness-is inherent.
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Read some of the comments in response to this article -- very thought-provoking comments, for the most part.
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Can you believe the Chinese? Their cure for global warming and the environment is for everyone to adopt their population control methods. Like yeah, it really works for them just like it did with the Olympics and they basically had to shut down factories just so all the smog could clear up 
. Now everyone must be limited to one child and if you have more get a forced abortion for the sake of the environment. Since when did the earth become more important than the humans who occupy it?
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Report: Venture Capitalists, Food Companies Among 1,160 Businesses Lobbying on Climate Change
We take a look at some of the more unusual businesses and interest groups lobbying Congress on climate change issues. A new Center for Public Integrity analysis of federal records shows that the 140 companies that joined the fray for the first time late this year include venture capitalists, the natural gas lobby, and America's most iconic soup maker, Campbell Soup. Ref. Source 4
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Global warming out, climate change in
The current decade long cooling trend has thrown a wrench into the alarmists trying to sell America the 'we are burning up' tale. It's a little tough to buy that the globe is warming when there is snow in Florida. So, progressives do what they do best and change the argument. No longer is it global warming, it's climate change. It's an old trick and they are doing it again. Glenn talks about the latest from the climate hoax crowd. Ref. Source 1
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Climate Scientist: Record-Setting Mid-Atlantic Snowfall Linked to Global Warming
As record snowfall crippled the mid-Atlantic this week, many Republicans used the blizzard-like conditions to argue that global warming is a hoax. We speak to climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who argues the extreme weather is in fact a part of global warming. Ref. Source 3
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