Showing posts with label It's the sun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It's the sun. Show all posts

Monday, 9 February 2009

Bob Breck

Chief Meteorologist Bob Breck of WVUE-TV

No link for this one, the list cites a letter to the list creators.
But I found a blogspot blog (join the family) of his:
http://bobbreck.blogspot.com/

Seems to contain more arguments than the letter, so most of the below are from the blog:

Arguments condensed

There's probably more..

Thursday, 18 December 2008

John L. Casey

NASA consultant and former space shuttle engineer John L. Casey of the Florida
based Verity Management Services Inc. (VMS)


See:
http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/i-am-ngudima-madriguru-climate-minister-of/

And:
Press Release (sorry it's a .doc document)

Arguments condensed
  • It's the sun
  • "near 100% match between low temperatures and solar activity lows
    between now and as far back as 900 AD"
  • Global cooling obvious in 2012

Notes:

  • Seems to implicitly support the idea of increased hurricanes and increased hurricane intensity in a warmer world: "Regarding the impacts of the next cold climate period on hurricanes, Casey summarized by saying "I would not be surprised to see the lowest number and least intense storms ever recorded in the US during this cold epoch, for obvious reasons."

Monday, 15 December 2008

Art Horn

Meteorologist Art Horn, currently operating The ‘Art' Of the Weather business

The list cites nothing, and that's the shortest introduction so far. Horn has actually written to the EPW according to the list.

But here's some more info:
http://www.theartofweather.com/arthorn.htm
and he has a website:
http://www.theartofweather.com/index.htm

On his FAQ page he has a topic "Is Global Warming For Real? Click here for the answer"
http://www.theartofweather.com/PageQ4.htm

There's also a news article interviewing him here where he talks about global warming:
http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=2114

Arguments condensed

Notes:

When I found the news article and started reading it I wondered why The List hadn't cited it, as it cites many news articles for other names. My guess is because at the end of the article Horn's arguments are firmly tackled by climate scientists Dr Bill Chameides and Dr Brenda Ekwurzel:

"Ekwurzel or Chameides both discounted Horn's claim that only three percent of carbon emmisions are man-made.
"The claims are common if you haven't been trained in climate science," said Ekwurzel. "He's looking at the composition of the atmosphere and drawing conclusions without understanding all the various properties of water vapor versus carbon dioxide and so on."

Quotes:

"A self-described political moderate, Horn said he first conceived of the global warming presentation to engage with the popular topic of climate change, and he started from the premise that global warming didn't exist."

"Horn said that he wasn't alone in his beliefs about global warming, citing Web sites such as icecap.us and climatescience.org"

"In addition, Horn says, only about three percent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is man-made. The amount of man-made carbon in the atmosphere, Horn says, composes less than a tenth of the total atmosphere. According to Horn, such a small percentage couldn't possibly have an effect on global climate."

Qualifications:

  • From the article we learn that Horn has a BSc in meteorology.

Sunday, 14 December 2008

Dr. Cal Evans

Oxford-educated Geochemist Dr. Cal Evans, a prominent researcher who has advised the Alberta Research Council, the Natural Sciences, and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and who is affiliated with the Calgary-based group Friends of Science

This is the article the list cites:

http://www.dobmagazine.nickles.com/article.asp?article=magazine/070709/MAG2007_L90001.html

Arguments condensed:

Notes:

  • Accepts many glaciers are melting
  • Accepts the co2 rise since the industrial revolution, although preindustrial figure slightly wrong, and says ocean warming is the cause "at least in part" of the co2 rise.
  • Accepts that sunspot activity on its own cannot account for the full swings in global temperature (although confusingly the article cites Habibullo Abdussamatov as claiming evidence that "current global warming on both Mars and Earth is being caused by a long-term increase in solar irradiation")

Quotes:

"The slight increase in ground temperature has no parallel in the troposphere. If atmospheric CO2 concentration was actually a significant factor in global warming, it stands to reason that atmospheric temperatures would rise but that hasn't happened."

"To date, no one has been able to identify a link between higher CO2 concentrations and greater volumes of atmospheric water vapour"

BIO info:

(this is from the article, unfortunately I can find no other references at this time)

-former head of Esso's research arm
-appointed executive vice-president of Canada's largest upstream petroleum producer in 1980
-worked for Pemoco Ltd, "Oil And Gas Field Services"

Saturday, 13 December 2008

Mike Thompson

"Chief Meteorologist Mike Thompson of Kansas City’s Fox TV Channel 4 is a former U.S. Navy meteorologist who holds the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Seal of Approval and is a certified Broadcast Meteorologist"

The list cites an entry on his blog, although his comments in the comments section are more revealing:
http://community.myfoxkc.com/blogs/wxteam4/2008/04/14/Not_Over_Yet

Arguments condensed:

  • "There have been a number of scientists who have lost grant money simply because they had a dissenting voice over global warming"
  • "The truth is that only 3.5% of the CO2 in the atmosphere comes from human sources"
  • "The warming is coincident with the rise in solar irradiance since the mid 1850s"
  • "More and more climate scientists are admitting that the sun has played a major...if not the only...role in the warming that we have experienced"
  • "If you look at charts of CO2 content over the past centuries, you will find there were times when the CO2 concentrations were at or above 7,000 ppm"

Notes:

  • Claims that "today we're at 360 ppm" co2.
  • The list claims "Thompson dissented from the view of a man-made climate crisis in 2008", yet a 2006 blog entry makes it clear he didn't accept manmade global warming back then either: http://community.myfoxkc.com/blogs/wxteam4/2006/09/25/USING_SCIENCE_TO_SCARE
  • The 2006 blog entry contains a link to JunkScience.com, which (conicidentally?) contains the claim that only 3.5% of co2 emissions are human caused.
  • In the 2006 blog entry he says "The key to understanding what is true, and what is not…is to take time to learn as much about the subject as possible. I cannot claim to be an expert by any stretch of the imagination."

Richard Mourdock

"Geologist Richard Mourdock, a licensed professional geologist and former field geologist who now serves as an environmental and energy consultant"

The list cites this news article:
http://media.www.indianastatesman.com/media/storage/paper929/news/2008/04/25/Campus/Students.Meet.State.Treasurer-3349761.shtml

Only a small part of it contains Richard Mourdock's comments on global warming.

Arguments condensed:

Notes:

  • "Mourdock explained that humans aren't the cause of global warming and that it's something bigger in the universe, such as the sun."
  • "Global caps in the last 15 years receded until last year on Mars, but what do we have in common with Mars? Last time I checked, only the sun."
  • "With a graduate degree in geology, Mourdock said his studies have convinced him that global warming is not happening."
BIO info:

http://www.richardmourdock.com/aboutrichard.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mourdock

  • MSc in Geology, 1975
  • BSc in Natural Systems (combined degree in Biology, Geology, and Chemistry), 1973

He graduated in 1975 after which he moved through various roles:

  • Field geologist with a coal company.
  • Senior Geologist with an oil company.
  • Vice President of a coal company.
  • President of a coal mining subsidiary.
  • "2001 to present", "Self-employed as a private consultant in the environmental and energy businesses"