Showing posts with label Mars is warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mars is warming. Show all posts

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

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"