[Terrapreta] Ice-age anyone?

[gordon eliott]

dear all - and particularly the climate jihadis,

may i offer my understanding of the whole issue

   1. a careful look at the temp graphs does not indicate anything out of
   the ordinary happening. indeed there seem to have been recent global temp
   falls.
   2. i have seen water vapour estimated at between 76% and 97% of the
   greenhouse gas.
   3. if one looks at the absorption spectra for CO2 it is clear that
   they are already saturated  - and that doubling the amount of CO2 will only
   result in tiny increases of "CO2 forcing".
   4. of the CO2 "churn" only about 3% can be ascribed to man.
   5. far more CO2 is dissolved in the oceans than the air (50 times?)
   6. there are all sorts of overlapping solar orbital cycles and earth
   axis wobble cycles.
   7. solar activity varies
   8. temp rises seem to preceed CO2 rises.
   9. strange things happen in space.
   10. ocean currents like all fluid dynamics are essentially
   unpredictable and it is ocean currents that are responsible for most of the
   heat transfers around the world.
   11. plate tectonics: who knows what happens with volcanic heat
   transfers on the sea floor.
   12. there are dozens of variables: computer modelers put in what are
   in essence opinions and therefore what they get out are in essence opinions.
   13.  these modelers seem to have captured the IPCC.
   14. the part of the IPCC that wrote the summary is an intensely
   political body, and many of the rest of them are just along for the ride and
   their opinion has no more value than yours or mine.
   15. there are who object to the CO2 theory. this takes some courage
   for anyone in employment.
   http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/2007%2005-03%20AusIMM%20corrected.pdf
   16. concerning the CO2 theory, it is a disaster that with so many
   people are being presented with bad reasons for doing some good things.
   17. there are lots of chat rooms where CO2 jihadis engage in combat.
   reminds me of the way maoists used to go for trotskyites. and versa vice.
   18. there are some truly interesting things getting said about terra
   preta.
   19. let them not be driven them away by all this saving the planet too
   hard.

best wishes
gordon eliott
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