As the snow flew in the Twin Cities yesterday, many Minnesotans had to question the now seemingly mainstream theory of anthropogenic global warming. The cold snap broke records from Vancouver, British Columbia through Montana all the way to Mason City, Iowa. Was it a fluke? Or have storm clouds gathered over the science of global warming?
Over the weekend, the article was among the BBC's most popular.
Over 4,000 miles away, on the other side of the pond, the BBC was asking itself the same question. The headline read, “What Happened to Global Warming?” A bold headline for an institution that, up until now, had been a prominent voice in the call for action on climate change. The BBC has long been a supporter of the theory of anthropogenic global warming, their website even boasts a special section dedicated to educating people about the evidence and effects of global warming. The article addresses the inconvenient fact that for 11 years, the planet has stayed below the record high temperature set in 1998, something climatologists had to admit their models did not predict.
To be clear, the BBC is not performing a u-turn on its endorsement of anthropogenic global warming, but it is highlighting subtle evidence that perhaps the science isn’t as sound as once thought, a bold step outside the mainstream for the world’s premiere public television network.
Last evening a gentleman asked Lord Mockton about the concept of carbon dioxide causing oceanic acidification. My background of fifty years managing anesthesia for cardiac surgery and in 1968 I created the Stanford University Hospital Intensive Care units growing from three to fifty-eight beds in eight years. In this responsibility I created a test for brain death that permitted me to legally discharge a potential heart donor to the cardiac transplantaion team. The basis of the test was a challenge to the respiratory control center of the brain. With this fifty year background in the role of carbon dioxide’s vital role in human life I transcribed its other essential life sustaining role as the crucial element in maintaining the environment in which life’s chemically based environment can be maintained. This is called the carbon dioxide, carbaonic acid buffer system. It is this system that controls the acid-base environment at the life permitting levels. Since the oceans can be considered in a similar manner as a living structure requiring optimal acid-base environment in which water based life such as fish, amphibians, crustaceans and vegetation can thrive I constructed the concept that carbon dioxide is not toxic to oceans any more than it is to humanity. A full description of this analogy has been accomplished by Josep L Pelegri in his Discussion Article, ” A physiologic approach to oceanic processes and glacial-interglacial changes in atmospheric COs”, Scientia Marina 72 (1), March 2008, 185-20, Barcelona (Spain), ISSN: 0214-8358 and is listed by searching for oceanic acidification. This comment is written in response to the marvelous presentation by Lord Christopher Monckton at Bethel University on the evening of October 14, 2009 that was sponsored by Minnesota Free Marke Institute. A complete discussion of the acid-base balance and control in can be found in most texts of Human Phusiology. I used The Lung,Julius H Comroe, MD when I lectured at Stanford Medical School.
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What “science of global warming”?
Good reporting. Computer-made “global warming”, based on inaccurate computer numbers that missing the “science fact” that global temp did not go over the high of 1998 for 11 years unlike its prediction. The new fact is we have a mess of global folks wanting to cure poverty and call it “global warming”. Is that also a broken computer model? or is poverty a species in danger of becoming extinct? Maybe man can help but new laws will not cure it.
Ice melts at 0deg C absorbing 80calories per gram to do so.
80calories will warm 1gram of water to 80deg C.
Thus when all the ice melts the waters of the Earth can rise in temperature to 80deg C (subject to the law of mixtures) and beyond, wiping out all life on earth. The heat to do this comes from the Sun and the Earth’s core of uranium still sinking slowly to the centre of the Earth under its own weight as an atomic furnace or nuclear reactor. Any change in the heating rate will accelerate Global Warming up or down. I have designed a diagram to show this.
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