More noise about climate

Han · 2010-01-30T12:18:17+00:00

My Dutch newspaper (electronically at drew my attention to this American-Swiss scientific report. The abstract/summary is freely available at:. Or through the Digital Object Identifier site:For the full text I can use my AAAS subscription. If anyone is truly interested in the full report, I could email the pdf file, but I'm not totally sure of the copyright rules.Science does progress, but the elucidation of complicated interrelationships of atmospheric regulations is not yet complete, it appears. (A somewhat sarcastic statement perhaps, but I do believe that we should quit pouring CO2 into the atmosphere).Here is the summary:Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global WarmingSusan Solomon,1 Karen Rosenlof,1 Robert Portmann,1 John Daniel,1 Sean Davis,1,2 Todd Sanford,1,2 Gian-Kasper Plattner3Stratospheric water vapor concentrations decreased by about 10% after the year 2000. Here, we show that this acted to slow the rate of increase in global surface temperature over 2000 to 2009 by about 25% compared to that which would have occurred due only to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. More limited data suggest that stratospheric water vapor probably increased between 1980 and 2000, which would have enhanced the decadal rate of surface warming during the 1990s by about 30% compared to estimates neglecting this change. These findings show that stratospheric water vapor represents an important driver of decadal global surface climate change.1 NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, USA.2 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.3 Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.Received for publication 25 September 2009. Accepted for publication 12 January 2010.

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That guy left in disgrace. He was sold on an idea and proved it with false data that he knew was false. He was found out and was forced to resign.

People get into a mode and buy into something only to find it blowing up in their face.

In the late 60's a like problem - plate tectonics. Some believed and others po poohed it so badly they lost face when it proved out. Now it is on the news from time to time after earthquakes or volcano blowing their top.

All it takes is a few senior members to write under a common theme and a stampede is started to absorb honor and knowledge. Lemmings running for the edge only sometimes the edge is a slope that leads to the heights.

Mart> Sw>> And here is what the IPCC is saying now: