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May 6, 2007
Yet Another Scientist Laughs Off Global Warming
While Sheryl Crow denounces the arrogance of those who won't drink the climate change Kool-Aid, prominent meteorologist Reid Bryson observes that climate change is totally natural and has nothing to do with SUVs or incandescent light bulbs:
Climate's always been changing and it's been changing rapidly at various times, and so something was making it change in the past. Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?
All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air.
Bryson notes that Vikings farmed on currently ice-choked Greenland for longer than America has existed, and that retreating glaciers in the Alps have revealed mature forest, agricultural water-management structures, and even a silver mine:
A silver mine! The guys had stacked up their tools because they were going to be back the next spring to mine more silver, only the snow never went. There used to be less ice than now. It's just getting back to normal.
As for the bogus notion that CO2 causes global warming:
In the first 30 feet of the atmosphere, on the average, outward radiation from the Earth, which is what CO2 is supposed to affect, how much [of the reflected energy] is absorbed by water vapor? In the first 30 feet, 80 percent, okay? And how much is absorbed by carbon dioxide? Eight hundredths of one percent. One one-thousandth as important as water vapor. You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.
A few of Bryson's qualifications:
Reid A. Bryson holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education. Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology — now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences — in the 1970s he became the first director of what's now the UW's Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. He's a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor — created, the U.N. says, to recognize "outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment." He has authored five books and more than 230 other publications and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world.
Hmm, nothing there about being a pop star. Let's not be arrogant by listening to Professor Bryson instead of Cheryl Crow.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 6, 2007 2:35 PM
Comments
The last line in that article is especially worth pondering:
"Sometimes people don’t react well when you challenge their long-held ideas, but that’s how real science takes place."
Posted by: Anonymous at May 6, 2007 5:40 PM
Someone buy this man 30 minutes of prime time airtime, kinda like Ross Perot did. Get this message out and stop the swindle!!!
Posted by: Good man at May 6, 2007 7:17 PM
CO2 does not cause global warming it causes oxygen. I suggest Sheryl Crow take a deep breathe and enjoy it.
Posted by: pocomoco at May 6, 2007 7:50 PM
Does anyone know exactly more about the "retreating glaciers in the Alps" that "have revealed mature forest, agricultural water-management structures, and even a silver mine"?
The article mentions a 2-year-old study but does not mention who did they study or what the study is called. I'd like to learn more about it.
Posted by: Robert at May 7, 2007 7:13 AM
Guess we should ban plants and trees since they emit CO2 at night since yes, they do respire. Kill the trees! Kill the trees!!!
Posted by: fellowes at May 7, 2007 7:57 AM
Next thing you know - receding ice will reveal Noah's Ark.
Posted by: Jimbo at May 7, 2007 12:01 PM
I really don't think those on the left are going to care what this man has to say.
Global warming ideology has been engrained in their minds, and they are entrenched. The best we can hope for is that eventually people will just forget about it and go on with their lives.
Of course, in 10-20 years when all their dire predictions don't come true, they'll take credit for it. "Look what WE did!"
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at May 7, 2007 12:48 PM
He looks like a nice man.
And if you're a moonbat, I have one question for you, well, actually two: Does Al Gore look like a nice man? Does Mohammed look like a nice man?
No, they're both WACKO.
Posted by: Doug at May 7, 2007 3:32 PM
Right, N.G.W.F.J....just like they leaped to take credit for Reagan's facing down the Soviets. "Yeah, WE knew they were evil all along...!"
Posted by: Toa at May 7, 2007 5:55 PM
