Saturday, February 3, 2018

Things Your Professor Didn’t Tell You About Climate Change. (Quite technical)

John Kudla



"Other than a propensity for believing everything they are told, why are these people so agitated?
"If you look at climate change predictions, almost all of them are bad. Critics refer to these views collectively as climate alarmism. Alarmists believe the Earth’s climate is warming because greenhouse gases are being added to the atmosphere through human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels. They claim unless the buildup of greenhouse gases is stopped, global temperatures will begin to rise exponentially, which will have terrible consequences, such as major flora and fauna extinctions, coastal inundation caused by melting ice caps, heatwaves, drought, famine, economic collapse, war, and the potential for human extinction.
"The basis for many of these predictions are the reports issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). One of the functions of the IPCC is to model the Earth’s climate to predict changes in global temperature. Although the Earth is warming a bit, their models always seem to bemore enthusiastic about warming than the Earth appears to be. In fact, a recent study from the UK suggests climate models factor in too much warming." . . .

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