@TIME 1/9》@arynebaker & @TIME, please stop regurgitating climate industry propaganda like this. Their claim that southern Madagascar's famine is caused by manmade climate change is brazenly dishonest, and has no scientific basis.
@TIME@arynebaker 2/9》Just 40 years ago Madagascar (and much of the rest of Africa!) had a MUCH worse drought & famine. THe average atmospheric CO2 level then only 340 ppmv. What do you think caused that one? nytimes.com/1981/03/26/wor…
@TIME@arynebaker 3/9》Do you understand graphs? You can't blame droughts on anthropogenic climate change if you understand graphs like these:
@TIME@arynebaker 4/9》It's hard to convince people of the lie that rising CO2 levels threaten food security if they know anything about agronomy, because agronomists know that elevated CO2 helps mitigate drought impacts.
@TIME@arynebaker 6/9》The benefits of elevated CO2 for crops is long-settled science. Those benefits have been documented and measured by thousands of robust scientific studies. sealevel.info/C3_and_C4_Pfla…
@TIME@arynebaker 7/9》The fact that CO2 is very good for crops have been known to science for over a century. Here's a Scientific American article about it from 1920: tinyurl.com/1920sciamCO2
@TIME@arynebaker 8/9》It is hard to dupe people into blaming famines on CO2 emissions if they're old enough to remember when major famines were often in the news, in places like Africa and Bangladesh, or if they understand graphs like this one:
@TIME@arynebaker 9/9》To learn about #ClimateChange see: tinyurl.com/learnmore4
It has:
● accurate intro climatology info
● in-depth science from BOTH skeptics & alarmists
● links to balanced debates between experts on BOTH sides
● info about climate impacts
● the best blogs on BOTH sides
2/17. That DeSmogBlog article about Will Happer is a brazen, despicable smear.
DeSmogBlog claimed that "Peabody Energy paid [Happer] $8,000 which was routed through the CO2 Coalition."
That's a LIE. Prof. Happer was not paid, because he asked that his entire fee be donated to charity.
3/17. DeSmog also falsely claimed, "Happer told Greenpeace reporters that he would be willing to produce research promoting the benefits of carbon dioxide for $250 per hour, while the funding sources could be similarly concealed by routing them through the CO2 Coalition."
That's ANOTHER LIE.
Happer did no such thing. Rather, he was asked to produce a white paper (which is not "research") explaining the best scientific evidence about the costs and benefits of fossil fuel use—and he generously asked that the fee for that work be donated to charity.
The CO2 Coalition @CO2Coalition is a 501(c)(3) educational charity. Happer didn't "route" anything "through" them. He very generously donated the fees to which he was entitled, to that very worthy charity.
I have the paper, and the five responses, and Skrable's responses to the responses, on my site, here: sealevel.info/Skrable2022/
2/6. The 14C bomb spike decay reflects 3 main processes:
1. Removal of CO2 from the air, into other "reservoirs" (ocean & terrestrial biosphere).
2. Exchanges of carbon between atmosphere & other reservoirs.
3. "Suess effect" dilution: the addition of fossil CO2 with no 14C.
3/6. The bomb spike decay follows a beautiful logarithmic decay curve, with an 11 year half-life, so an 11 / ln(2) = 16 year apparent lifetime. But that fails to take into account Suess effect dilution. sealevel.info/logc14_two_hal…
1/5. Anymous84861064 & Lynas (2021) are bludgeoning a strawman. They pretend the climate debate is whether anthropogenic climate change is real, so they can claim there's a scientific consensus - while slyly avoiding saying what the consensus is about. sealevel.info/consensus_defi…
@Rabs1958 @LottRan @Anymous84861064 @GillesnFio @S_D_Mannix @mikeshearn49 @ItsTheAtmospher @navigator087 @Veritatem2021 @Devonian1342 @MarcEHJones @GAJAJW @BenKoby1911 @Jaisans @bulkbiker @Climatehope2 @DenisDaly @Data79504085 @Mark_A_Lunn @Anvndarnamn5 @Michael_D_Crow @Hji45519156 @waxliberty @priscian @SuperFoxyLoxy @ChrisBBacon3 @JaapTitulaer @Willard1951 @wjack76995 @Rocky35418823 @NobaconEgbert @balls95652097 @BointonGiles @AristotleMrs @ammocrypta @SeekerTheGreat1 @ubique60 @EthonRaptor @RMcgillss @paligap17 @TheDisproof @MaggieL @Willy1000 @AuroriaTwittori @3GHtweets @MartinJBern @gstrandberg1 @Jakegsm @EricWil06256732 2/5. Most skeptics of climate alarmism agree with that "consensus" view, including me. So what? That's not what the debate is about! quora.com/It-is-claimed-…
3/5. Of course AGW is "real." The climate industry's problem is that the best evidence shows that CO2 & manmade climate change are beneficial, not harmful. The "social cost of carbon" is negative. sealevel.info/negative_socia…
1/5. Stoichastich wrote, "He says quite clearly that the hothouse is warm because the glass absorbs dark rays from the ground (IR), which is clearly not why the hothouse is hot."
That's not what Arrhenius wrote. This is the paper:
This is the excerpt to which I think you must be referring:
"Fourier maintained that the atmosphere acts like the glass of a hot-house, because it lets through the light-rays of the Sun, but retains the dark-rays from the ground."
You've mistaken his meaning. In the first place, Arrhenius was summarizing what another scientist said. In the second place, the word "it" clearly refers back to "the atmosphere," not to the hot-house, as you've apparently supposed.
The main way that greenhouses retain heat is by preventing convective and evaporative cooling. That's why greenhouses made of plastic which is transparent to LW IR work just fine. (Glass greenhouses do get a small amount of additional warming effect by blocking outgoing LW IR.)iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
2/5. Stoichastich asked, "Where has anyone said that [Arrhenius] did use that term?"
You retweeted Dale Cloudman pointing out that "the greenhouse effect is a misnomer," in your tweet saying that Arrhenius' paper was "fundamentally flawed." So I thought that's what you meant.
3/5. Stoichastich asked, "Estimating it sounds interesting, but has it ever been measured?"
There've been some attempts both to calculate and to measure the "radiative forcing." I summarize them here: