05/25/07
The thing about global warming, what makes it such an interesting issue, is that most people have non-scientific attitudes towards the hypothesis, towards the evidence, and towards how we should judge both.
This puts it in the category of religion and politics-as-usual. Which makes it a fun topic. A topic with which one can annoy nearly everyone, if one works it right.
It's interesting to see the deniers
now getting good coverage. One such, Zbiegniew Jaworowski, makes one of the best and most effective attacks on the evidence for global warming: his attack on ice core sample data:
- Ice is not stable
- The trapped gases inside Antarctic ice are not stable
- Carbon dioxide in particular degases faster than nitrogen and oxygen
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These things being the case, we should expect fairly level amounts of CO2 year after year, which we do see
- These levels remain level, interestingly enough, even during the Little Ice Age
- Other indicators of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere show widely varying amounts of the gas through history and prehistory
All suggesting that we should discard ice core samples!
If true, this is important. But, interestingly enough, the scientist couldn't get funded for research on this topic. The potential funders cited moral reasons
!
Ah, corruption that Al Gore said he'd witnessed, but applied against his enemies, not against his friends.
Hat tip to Erik Anderson.
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