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ElwoodBlues · M
This is about an effort to "red team" the climate change proponents; i.e. create a team of experts with no bias for anthropocentric climate change and no incentive to find it.
The climate skeptic and Stanford physicist Richard Muller was hired by oil billionaire Charles Koch to prove the climatologists wrong. He headed a team of physicists and chemists who built their own climate model from scratch without input from other climate scientists.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/converted-contrarian-argues-humans-to-blame-for-climate-change/
[quote]"Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming," Muller wrote. "Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause."[/quote]
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Some folks are suggesting that climate change would be good for some places on earth and bad for others, I have no disagreement. ... But.
When you look at the places that will be harmed by anthropogenic climate change due to sea level rise, you'll notice something. Most of humanity's greatest cities are near sea level. Worldwide, hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of buildings and infrastructure in this nation and almost every other nation on earth are at risk. The simple economic argument - protect our existing investment - is overwhelming.
The climate skeptic and Stanford physicist Richard Muller was hired by oil billionaire Charles Koch to prove the climatologists wrong. He headed a team of physicists and chemists who built their own climate model from scratch without input from other climate scientists.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/converted-contrarian-argues-humans-to-blame-for-climate-change/
[quote]"Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming," Muller wrote. "Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause."[/quote]
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[b]Update:[/b]
Some folks are suggesting that climate change would be good for some places on earth and bad for others, I have no disagreement. ... But.
When you look at the places that will be harmed by anthropogenic climate change due to sea level rise, you'll notice something. Most of humanity's greatest cities are near sea level. Worldwide, hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of buildings and infrastructure in this nation and almost every other nation on earth are at risk. The simple economic argument - protect our existing investment - is overwhelming.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues And we all remember the Sahara Forest, right?
ElwoodBlues · M
@sunsporter1649 If you're suggesting that climate change would be good for some places on earth and bad for others, I have no disagreement. ... But.
When you look at the places that will be harmed by anthropogenic climate change due to sea level rise, you'll notice something. Most of humanity's greatest cities are near sea level. Worldwide, hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of buildings and infrastructure in this nation and almost every other nation on earth are at risk. The simple economic argument - protect our existing investment - is overwhelming.
When you look at the places that will be harmed by anthropogenic climate change due to sea level rise, you'll notice something. Most of humanity's greatest cities are near sea level. Worldwide, hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of buildings and infrastructure in this nation and almost every other nation on earth are at risk. The simple economic argument - protect our existing investment - is overwhelming.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues I know it's not happening, or barry big ears and algore would not have bought waterfront property
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sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues I'm still waiting for those icebergs showing up off Miami Beach I was told about in 1959