{"id":1338,"date":"2007-02-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/02\/15\/hot-under-the-collar\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:30:00","slug":"hot-under-the-collar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/02\/15\/hot-under-the-collar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Under the Collar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since jra doesn’t allow comments on his blog, I’m using this post to respond to his “Another theory of climate change”<\/a> post. Blogwar!<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, this is not so much a rebuttal as an encouragement to read the original Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<\/a> report attacked<\/strike>referenced in the Times Online<\/span> article which prompted jra’s post. Unless you failed high school science, the Summary for Policymakers (1.3MB PDF)<\/a> shouldn’t take you more than half an hour to get through. (Thanks to The Science Creative Quarterly<\/span><\/a> for providing an actual link, which Times Online<\/span> cleverly omitted.) The complete report will be published this summer by Cambridge University Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, just to be fair, here’s a link to the dissenter’s publications: Henrik Svensmark<\/a> has written several papers on his cloud-cover-and-cosmic-rays theory since 1997. I’ll also point out that Svensmark’s own 1997 article references the 1992 IPCC report, and even he<\/span> does not deny<\/span> the role of human activity in global climate change–he merely questions whether other, natural factors have a greater effect, and if so, how much greater?<\/p>\n

There’s no question that the discussion of global warming has become politicized and polarized, and that is unfortunate as well as inconvenient<\/a>. While it’s true that our best science is still lacking–the IPCC itself admits that their understanding of solar irradiance and how it affects global climate is low<\/span> (see figure SPM-2 on page 4 of the Summary for Policymakers<\/a>)–it’s still science<\/span>. <\/p>\n

I have no problem with “considering all the possibilities,” as jra says, but that should include all<\/span> the possibilities–including the prevailing view that greenhouse gases are a major cause of global warming–and should mean judging each hypothesis on its scientific<\/span> merits, and not whether or not you think people have been brainwashed into believing it.<\/p>\n

If you don’t buy the science behind how to determine the causes of radiative forcing<\/a>, fine. Just make sure you’re questioning the science, not the politics.<\/p>\n

~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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