Effects of GW on California

Started by Rod Kaufman, 04/02/2009 01:07AM
Posted 04/02/2009 01:07AM | Edited 04/02/2009 03:38AM Opening Post
Develop more and face this?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate2-2009apr02,0,1696993.story
I'm sure county planning commissions are lining up to do just that...
Posted 04/02/2009 05:56AM | Edited 04/02/2009 05:57AM #1
37 research papers that all start with the premise that the earth is getting warmer and will continue to do so, therefore we will have 37 "possible" disaster scenarios if we do not take immediate action to reduce CO2. Hurry up and send lots more money for research before we figure out that it has been getting cooler.

As Richard Lindzen reported at the 2009 ICCC:
The earth’s climate (in contrast to the climate in current climate GCMs) is dominated by a strong net negative feedback. Climate sensitivity is on the order of 0.3°C, and such warming as may arise from increasing greenhouse gases will be indistinguishable from the fluctuations in climate that occur naturally from processes internal to the climate system itself.

Alarming climate predictions depend critically on the fact that models have large positive feedbacks. The crucial question is whether nature actually behaves this way? The answer, as we have just seen, is unambiguously no.