tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156554518278588586.post6940472292073593694..comments2018-09-14T16:43:57.358-04:00Comments on Justin's WeatherTalk: Chill Out!Justin Berk, AMS CBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617236011630970241noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156554518278588586.post-30969186252034634882008-01-11T07:43:00.000-05:002008-01-11T07:43:00.000-05:00Shireen,I am glad to post your comments since you ...Shireen,<BR/>I am glad to post your comments since you can be adult about this. Many activists resort to name calling and childish accusations. Stossel was the only one to approach the subject on network TV. If you heard the scientist in the report, they are credible and disagree. You are right, this is very complex. CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas, but it has been the target. Methane traps 20 times more heat, but hardly mentioned. I think over population and actual pollution are bigger problems than GW. Humans contribute 2% of global CO2. <BR/>The problem is what the media has created- a monster. A great deal of bad information has been presented, and needlessly scaring people. That was the purpose for the kids. They are scared. What happens when they expect 20 foot sea level rise, and on 6 inches is the case - they and many lose respect for scientist. How many studies on diets or foods contradict themselves over time. While warming was dramatic and peaked in the 90s, so did El Nino Activity. Also, solar activity. Please read the article in the Boston Globe I linked to and read about 2007.<BR/>Nature itself has proved that climate is not constant. Even this current warm spell or any severe weather can not be attribute to GW, but it is on TV. Just look back to the extremes in the past. 1930s-Dust bowl. 1930s-1950's Hurricane peak. No one event can justify this cause. That is straight out of the IPCC- but ignored in the public forum. Fear = viewers and readers.Justin Berk, AMS CBMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617236011630970241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156554518278588586.post-51544676881709552012008-01-11T04:54:00.000-05:002008-01-11T04:54:00.000-05:00Good grief! Why on earth would you want to back yo...Good grief! Why on earth would you want to back your comments with a 20/20 video segment by John Stossel? He's about as credible as Geraldo. <BR/><BR/>I have no idea why these scientists disagree with the IPCC conclusions and Al Gore. But Stossel has done them a disservice by not allowing them to clearly make their cases, in their own words, about it. <BR/><BR/>Don't have time to go into a blow-by-blow criticism of Stossel's story. But here are a few comments: <BR/><BR/>- why interview kids? To show parents how those mean scientists are scaring kids about GW? Playing that fear card was totally unnecessary. <BR/><BR/>- clips of Al Gore, John Edwards, the UN-sponsored IPCC, Nobel Prize. What's the message Stossel's conveying? Clearly, human-induced GW is liberal propaganda. <BR/><BR/>- the "gotchas", like video of frolicking polar bears proving they're currently doing just fine; the CO2-temperature correlation plots showing CO2 levels increasing before temperature; Arctic warming event early last century when CO2 levels were still low. Note to Stossel: hire a fact-checker! There are other explanations for them. <BR/><BR/>I could go on and on, but it's past 4am and I'm tired. Look, Stossel's not interested in balanced fair reporting; he's decided what he wants to believe and has selectively picked audio and video clips to promote his point of view. It's sloppy irresponsible journalism. <BR/><BR/>Climate change is an extremely complex subject. We can't expect most people, myself included, to understand every single subtle aspect of it. But when a large group of scientists from across the world come together to compare their data and results, and reach a similar conclusion that we humans are responsible for the rise in global temperature which could have catastrophic effects, I see little reason to question their collective judgments.There may not be a 100% consensus among all scientist, given the complexity of the phenomena, but there is enough of a critical mass of agreement to indicate that GW is caused by humans.Shireenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18386028026441044301noreply@blogger.com