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xyzer · Aug 22, 2007, 08:57 am

NASA Backtracks On 1998 Warmest Year Claim | News | E-Team
Just to rub it in pooey, I like this article because it's so succinct!
The hottest year on record is 1934, not 1998;
The third hottest year on record was 1921, not 2006;
Three of the five hottest years on record occurred before 1940; and
Six of the top 10 hottest years occurred before 90 percent of the growth in greenhouse gas emissions during the last century occurred.

According to NASAs recent data..What does this do to the "hockey Stick" that you defend? Could it just be that inspite of the anthropogenic contribution to C02 something else has caused warming in the past...and could be causing it in the present?

When one considers this from Vicchios post..
"Carbon dioxide is 0.000383 of our atmosphere by volume (0.038 percent)," said meteorologist Joseph D'Alea, the first director of meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chief of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecast.

"Only 2.75 percent of atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic in origin. The amount we emit is said to be up from 1 percent a decade ago. Despite the increase in emissions, the rate of change of atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa remains the same as the long term average (plus 0.45 percent per year)," he said. "We are responsible for just 0.001 percent of this atmosphere. If the atmosphere was a 100-story building, our anthropogenic CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor."

Does it not strain reality to claim that this small change to such a minute fraction of C02 in the atmosphere will result in climate change?

Aug 22, 2007, 08:57 am	#10 (permalink) (top)
xyzer Liberated thinker Location: New Mexican Alps Posts: 2,102	NASA Backtracks On 1998 Warmest Year Claim \| News \| E-Team Just to rub it in pooey, I like this article because it's so succinct! The hottest year on record is 1934, not 1998; The third hottest year on record was 1921, not 2006; Three of the five hottest years on record occurred before 1940; and Six of the top 10 hottest years occurred before 90 percent of the growth in greenhouse gas emissions during the last century occurred. According to NASAs recent data..What does this do to the "hockey Stick" that you defend? Could it just be that inspite of the anthropogenic contribution to C02 something else has caused warming in the past...and could be causing it in the present? When one considers this from Vicchios post.. "Carbon dioxide is 0.000383 of our atmosphere by volume (0.038 percent)," said meteorologist Joseph D'Alea, the first director of meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chief of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecast. "Only 2.75 percent of atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic in origin. The amount we emit is said to be up from 1 percent a decade ago. Despite the increase in emissions, the rate of change of atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa remains the same as the long term average (plus 0.45 percent per year)," he said. "We are responsible for just 0.001 percent of this atmosphere. If the atmosphere was a 100-story building, our anthropogenic CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor." Does it not strain reality to claim that this small change to such a minute fraction of C02 in the atmosphere will result in climate change? Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.