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Climate: The Counter-Consensus - A Palaeoclimatologist Speaks (Independent Minds) Paperback – May 1, 2010
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- Print length200 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherStacey International
- Publication dateMay 1, 2010
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-101906768293
- ISBN-13978-1906768294
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- Publisher : Stacey International; 1st edition (May 1, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 200 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1906768293
- ISBN-13 : 978-1906768294
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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That is not to say we need to clean up our act, but that is happening already. Climate change caused by mans activity is so marginal, if indeed anything at all that we should drop this madness, and call it out for what it is........ Nonsense.
It's too bad the MSM ( mainly stupid media) can't be trusted to do their jobs and advise the public of how politicians cater only to the wealthy, and the hell with the little guys.
The author does not dismiss the potential effects which can be posed by climate change, but his discussion rather challenges the reader to focus on the debate as one of determining appropriate strategies for contributing to our at present very poor understanding of climate change drivers, and ultimately the actions which can be taken to prepare for the inevitable changes.
The arguments, although not new ones, presented in the first half of the book are well supported and has you delving deeper into this complex climate science subject.
The now famous "hockey stick graph" is presented again and argued from Carters perspective along with his assertions on the "Urban heat island effect", plus a wide range of topics. Many of these arguments are strongly refuted by mainstream climate scientists.
Rather than the concise approach of a scientist, the later part of the book lapses into emotive politico rhetoric with Carter taking a swipe at some very well qualified colleagues not to mention the IPCC. Carters arguments become less credible in this environment and may leave you unconvinced.
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1). Less temperature bang for every carbon dioxide buck (as he puts it). Most laymen assume that the greenhouse effect is a directly linear one. But it is not. A negative logarithmic relationship exists between the addition of CO2 to the atmosphere and consequential radiative heating, which means that each incremental amount of extra CO2 exerts a lesser heating effect. This phenomenon is shown perfectly in his Fig.15.
2). In line with Henry’s Law CO2 goes into solution in the oceans in proportion to its partial pressure in the atmosphere and is then precipitated as limestone or sequestered by marine organisms - and It has been calculated that the burning of all currently available fossil fuel resources would increase atmospheric CO2 concentration by just 20 percent.
So why all the fuss about CO2? It’s a False Alarm!
It is worth buying Carter’s book for these first four chapters alone, but in the second half of the book he focuses on the political and socio-economic aspects of the debate, including, for example, noble cause corruption and the precautionary principle, and drawing our attention to the fact that over $100 billion per year is spent on climate change research- so many careers, reputations and businesses now rest on this newly created industry.
Donald Trump said that "global warming" was a hoax. But "hoax is not the appropriate term: the correct word is "scam". It is the biggest scientific and economic scam in history.
the book was published in 2008 and unfortunately it is now out of print - and used copies are excessively expensive (but worth it!). It is a worthy sequel to Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth and an authoritative forerunner to Gregory Wrightstone’s Inconvenient Facts.
Second edition please!
RIP Robert Carter.
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Such books are persuasive to those who start from a sceptical point of view and are looking for confirmation, far less so to those of us who have studied the subject over a long time perspective, where possible sourcing information from reputable scientific journals rather than from newspaper articles and blog sites.
Climate change resulting from man's emissions was predicted as long ago as the late 19th century, with the principles of the Greenhouse Effect demonstrated both mathematically (from basic principals of physics) and empirically under laboratory conditions. As we have learned more about the interaction of these effects with other global and solar phenomena we have been able to explain quite clearly the trends in mean global temperature we have seen over the last 150 years or so. Models that exclude the effect of greenhouse gases show quite close agreement with temporal fluctuations in temperature, but without the increasing trend. It is only when the greenhouse gas effects are added to the models that they show the trend of increase over the last several decades. In other words, taking into account everything we know about the climate and how it works, global warming over the last century or so can only be explained by taking into account the Greenhouse Effect and our emissions of greenhouse gases.
It is no surprise that the most sceptical voices are those of non scientists, whilst almost all scientists across all disciplines agree that the climate is warming continually and that the increasing trend in global temperatures is anthropogenic in origin.
