Friday, April 18, 2008

Me Too

“Among all the deniers I have profiled,” Solomon writes, “I have never encountered one who disputes that there is such a thing as a greenhouse effect, or that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas.... The arguments are all about how powerful the effect is, especially when considered in combination with other factors, various feedback mechanisms both negative and positive, and other influences that might or might not overwhelm the effect of CO2.” In other words, Solomon found that the “deniers” are, in fact, not in denial at all. They are merely dissidents from the political orthodoxy of climate catastrophism.
Sign me up, I can agree with this. The greenhouse effect is well understood, and water vapor is by far the biggest contributor to the Earth's greenhouse effect -- Without which the Earth would be a very unpleasant place indeed. CO2 grows really big plants and trees, any gardener will tell you that. CO2 is a minor player in the greenhouse effect, and is surly not a major factor. The only way the unverified computer models produce the scary temperature graphs, is by using positive feedback, which if it existed the Earth would have already "railed the climate system" most likely Earth would be a permanent snowball.

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