Not sure what you are asking. Can you ask again? Ken...
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ourphyl
Jul 2, 2011 1:56 am
Hi Ken. Welcome back. ... at ... situ ... and ... How can this be? If surface temperatures of atmosphere and ocean are above thawing, ice should be melting...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Jul 2, 2011 3:12 am
Glacial advance and retreat is ALWAYS a question of "moisture"; balance. If more snow falls than melts , the snow piles up and flows. If less snow falls than...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 2, 2011 7:07 am
University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Horton and colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Jul 2, 2011 9:18 am
Its appalling that research this bad sees the light of day....
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ourphyl
Jul 2, 2011 4:35 pm
Maybe a house of cards or a stack of dominos but a tower of foraminifera - on an extra heavy glacier - 100 years ago in North Carolina. LOL. ... that sea...
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ourphyl
Jul 6, 2011 5:36 pm
Over the past 5-10 years, some paleoclimatologists have published several research studies about hunter/gatherer evolution and land use. Methane and CO2...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 9, 2011 8:41 am
Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated "pause" in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 9, 2011 8:46 am
Succinct criticism. Care to say why it's bad? I would legitimately be interested in putting your problems to the researchers. Happy to have the conversation...
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ourphyl
Jul 10, 2011 3:43 am
FWIW, you might ask the researchers what new measurements morphed North Carolina from Kemp's 2009 paper titled: "SEA-LEVEL VARIABILITY OVER THE PAST TWO...
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lwaynes_world
Jul 11, 2011 12:26 pm
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/07/revisiting-historical-ocean-surface-temperatures/ "In summary, the new HadSST3 analysis is a big step...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Jul 12, 2011 5:36 am
Because once again, its a load of crap. For a start, its not known with certainty how the sea level changes over the course of the bond cycles (which seem to...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 16, 2011 11:06 am
Comparing predictions and measurements of the effects of climate change on plants and animals over the past five years shows predictions that species are at...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Jul 19, 2011 3:50 am
Aside from this being a dubious, unsupportable claim from the start...it should be noted that any species unable to adapt to the such a TRIVIAL change...would...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 19, 2011 10:12 am
I can ask this, but I think I know up front that the difference between the 2009 paper and the 2011 one is that in 2009 they just measure sea level, whereas in...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 19, 2011 10:23 am
I have asked Horton about Bond cycles and proxies. I'll come back if I get a response and please let me know if you think I've missed the point. I don't think...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 19, 2011 10:44 am
If we take your objections to the fundamental science behind global warming as read, is there a specific problem with this paper? As before, if you can come up...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Jul 19, 2011 5:47 pm
I think the most fundamental problem is that the uncertainty on the actual base extinction rate is an order of magnitude larger than the entire range of the...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Jul 20, 2011 4:17 am
oops, forgot to cover this in the last reply so I'll get it here ... Here is the problem I see. The climate system shows all the signs of fluctuating between...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 20, 2011 4:54 pm
Here's what I asked Horton based on your comments and how he responded: Q) How does how sea level changes over the course of Bond cycles factor into your work?...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 20, 2011 4:55 pm
These are the questions I asked Horton based on your comments and how he responded: Q) What new measurements were included in this work on top of what was in...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Jul 22, 2011 3:26 am
Not really. Something CLEARLY happened after the medieval warm period. The indications of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age are far too robust....
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ourphyl
Jul 22, 2011 7:32 am
I know Prof Benjamin Horton as an excellent scientist with world-wide experience. I believe he has not (yet) made a scientific case for causative...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 23, 2011 7:18 am
Contributions to climate change from "stratospheric aerosols" vary more than realised, Ellsworth Dutton and his NOAA colleagues find, potentially providing a...
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ourphyl
Jul 24, 2011 7:33 am
FWIW, Stefan Rahmstorf leads a discussion about Sea Level Rise over on RealClimate <http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/07/is-sea-level-rise\ ...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Jul 30, 2011 8:04 am
After a record Arctic tundra wildfire in 2007 released as much carbon as all plants in similar landscapes absorbed in a year, University of Florida's Michelle...
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HappyChopperRecords
HappyChopper...
Aug 6, 2011 7:28 am
Combining controls on emissions of less well-known greenhouse gases with CO2 limits would slow warming more rapidly, say Jim Butler of the US National Oceanic...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Aug 8, 2011 11:47 pm
Tundra is a rather unproductive biome and even factoring in stuff stored in permafrost...the forests that would replace it would hold more carbon....
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Alan
mistywindow...
Aug 9, 2011 12:55 am
"lloydb" <poitsplace@...> wrote: Tundra is a rather unproductive biome and even factoring in stuff stored in permafrost...the forests that would replace it...
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lloydb
poitsplace
Aug 9, 2011 5:31 am
My point was they absorb more carbon. They are indeed one of the last positive feedbacks for warming (although desert albedo feedback is far more potent....
