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A Swiss scientist by the name of Urs Neu has compiled a short (32 pages) easy to understand rebuttal of the more common recent denier talking points. Unlike the common denialist, each point in Urs Neu’s paper references the primary literature. What a novel idea.
The fact sheet is short, it’s sweet, it’s easy to understand and it’s potent. Go read it.
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Norman Branitsky Sun, Jul 4, 2010 7:46:35pm |
Seems to be a nicely laid out paper. I have two comments:
1. B4 "Climate change is driven by cosmic rays"
Claims of a CRF-climate link on the million year time scale (Shaviv and Veizer 2003)
have been disputed (Rahmstorf et al. 2004).
Here is Shaviv's response on his web site to the Rahmstorf et al.2004 paper:
"Rahmstorf et al. 2004 published a comment stating that almost all Veizer and I did was wrong. We showed in our response why every comment is irrelevant or invalid. In their response to the rebuttal, Rahmstorf et al. did not address any of our rebuttal comments (I presume because they could not). Instead, they used faulty statistics to demonstrate that our results are statistically insignificant. (Basically, they used Bartlett's formula for the effective number of degrees of freedom in a limit where the original derivation breaks down)."
Just because someone has written a paper with lots of citations, you still have to be diligent as a reader because not all the citations may be valid.
2. C6 "CO2 does not drive climate" is missing from this paper.
(The -=- was the only way I could make a reasonable table as more than 3 characters like "." or "-" are collapsed to just 3 characters.)
Time-=-=-=-=-Glaciation-=-=-=-=-=-=-CO2 (ppmv)
450-420 Ma-=-Ordovician-Silurian-=-=-4000(*)
360-260 Ma-=-Carboniferous-Permian-=400
151-132 Ma-=-Jurassic-Cretaceous-=-=2000(*)
Present Day-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-389
(*) Berner, R. A. and Kothavala, Z. 2001: Geocarb III: A revised model of atmospheric CO2 over Phanerozoic time.
American Journal of Science 301:182-204
The obvious question the Urs Neu paper neglects to answer is how the Earth could be covered in glaciers if the atmospheric CO2 was 5 or 10 times the present day value? Why wasn't the Earth's climate a runaway greenhouse with so much atmospheric CO2?
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freetoken Sun, Jul 4, 2010 7:50:16pm |
re: #1 dinky
The obvious question the Urs Neu paper neglects to answer is how the Earth could be covered in glaciers if the atmospheric CO2 was 5 or 10 times the present day value? Why wasn't the Earth's climate a runaway greenhouse with so much atmospheric CO2?
These sort of questions get asked, and answered, all the time.
BTW, of what period are you thinking when you say "10 times the present day value"?
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Norman Branitsky Sun, Jul 4, 2010 8:31:38pm |
re: #2 freetoken
These sort of questions get asked, and answered, all the time.
I'm just asking. Have any links you can direct me to that answers this specific question?
BTW, of what period are you thinking when you say "10 times the present day value"?
Ordovician-Silurian Glaciation (450-420 Ma) as listed in my table.
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b_sharp Sun, Jul 4, 2010 8:47:50pm |
re: #1 dinky
The obvious question the Urs Neu paper neglects to answer is how the Earth could be covered in glaciers if the atmospheric CO2 was 5 or 10 times the present day value? Why wasn't the Earth's climate a runaway greenhouse with so much atmospheric CO2?
Although it isn't possible to know for sure, there have been several explanations given.
Simply put, during that time period, solar output was less than it is now, CO2 estimates for the time were high, the cooling preceded the CO2, and the increase in CO2 pulled the Earth out of the cooling period.
John Cook at Skeptical Science has a good write up on it including cites to specific papers.
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b_sharp Sun, Jul 4, 2010 8:58:29pm |
Here is another paper disputing the work of Shaviv et al.
Again John Cook has an article on the Cosmic question including Shaviv's rebuttal to that paper and Sloan's response to the rebuttal.
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