Published on Thursday, April 20,

2006 by Vanity Fair
While Washington Slept
The Queen of England is afraid. International C.E.O.'s are

nervous. And the scientific establishment is loud and...

I think I know how you feel. I’ve been hearing this talk much longer than you.
Back

in the 70’s global warming was just a theory and a lot of people were saying it could never happen. Some...

In case nobody guessed, I’ve been an

activist most of my life. And I can somewhat relate to the notion of something that I never grew out of.
Most

kids start rebelling in their teens. My...

And here's the promised commentary

on the Keppler et al study:

Emerging science on methane emissions from forests: Do forestation projects

designed to slow global warming still make...

And here's a more scientific

article that seems to get to the heart of the controversies:

8 Feb 2006
An Aerosol Tour de

Forcing
Filed under:

I don't think so. Cooling factors have a much

shorter lifetime than CO2.
Anyway here's a different perspective from our friends at Max Plank:

Clearing

smoke may trigger global warming...

I guess it’s all a mater of perspective. In some

circles, working for public policy organizations that receive money from the oil industries is considered quite

impeachable.
Fred Singer...

I read through the articles and

found nothing that contradicts the IPCC Report (the uncertainties are well documented), but I will take a closer

look to see if they amplify anything.
One of...

Here’s excerpts from another

realclimate.org piece. I think this one begins to address a recurring theme in this thread.

Natural

Variability and Climate Sensitivity

In this...

"Aerosols

A recent study in

Nature found cutting air pollution could trigger a surge in global warming. Aerosols cool the Earth by reflecting

radiation back into space. Scrapping them...

Here's one

approach to this question, from realclimate.org:

How do we know that recent CO2 increases are due to human

activities?

Over the last 150 years, carbon dioxide (CO2)...

Obviously, I was drawing an analogy. Not trying to make any statements about how

well you care for your cars.



My question got misconstrued. But no problem. I’m

glad you’re...

With regards to the Mount

Pinatubo eruption, Hansen’s models predicted half a degree of average cooling, concentrated in higher northern

latitudes and lasting a couple of years. And this...

There is already a great deal of knowledge about how climate works, and there is a

significant amount of uncertainty. The important point, with respect to “global warming”, is that the role...

For the record... Here is a link to

the 2001 IPCC Assessment report’s subsection on paleoclimates:

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/072.htm
I counted references to over 100...

I think you misunderstood my point so let me put it another way:

When nations

debate the Kyoto protocols they refer to data in the IPCC Assessment . When Greenpeace wants to make a statement ...

Being able to argue an issue and

understanding an issue are two different things.
If you feel like your argument skills are lacking, I

think you could learn a lot from Gerry Spence’s...

The basic mechanism is actually simpler than

convection (although I don’t think I can describe it as clearly as you could):
Hotter objects radiate

energy at shorter wavelengths than...

I’m not a scientist. My academic

background is in history. And my confidence in the fossil fuels theory comes from a historical survey (and the

little bits of science I was forced to pick...

It’s true that I have an agenda.

(Not quite the one you mentioned, but close enough.) And it’s also true that I try to lead discussion towards issues

that support this agenda. But I...

The scariest part is the uncertainties. It’s a safe bet that the

albedo loss will be a factor for higher temperatures. But what is this going to do to the chemical composition of

the...

Oh-boy. Just when I thought I’d figured out a way to tame the proliferation of points and counter-points...



You’ll have to forgive me for the delayed response. I needed help sorting...

OK. So let’s figure out why.

I say let’s begin

with the “long established principles of physics": The earth is heated by the sun. The atmosphere retains heat from

the sun. And the...

Yes, but what makes you think this

is what the “global warming crowd” is doing?
Here is a very clear and concise summation of the

methodological premises in the IPCC’s own words:
...

Hi Belgareth,
You did

start this thread so I’ll try to respect your right to determine which questions are pertinent and which aren’t.


One of your issues, in starting this thread, was...