Andy Revkin has the story.
I may respond to the Carnegie-Mellon letter later, after reading.
[Update a few minutes later]
Judith Curry, the biggest threat to the “consensus”?
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Andy Revkin has the story.
I may respond to the Carnegie-Mellon letter later, after reading.
[Update a few minutes later]
Judith Curry, the biggest threat to the “consensus”?
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Without the massive funding from climate alarmism, the department of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon would be stuck designing levees and overpasses instead of saving the planet.
It’s also too bad that the massive Obama stimulus for building roads and bridges also never went to CM and other universities.
But if Stimulus funds actually went to fixing roads and bridges then Obama couldn’t keep using that excuse for needing more money because they would all be fixed.
And yet, designing levees and overpasses is a good and noble calling, which contributes substantially to the common weal. Infinitely more so than delusional messianism.
Indeed, it was a faulty levee that caused most of the damage in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
But who cares whether the levee fails because you can blame the hurricane on global warming, making all the victims martyrs for climate change!
Scientists should do science. When they start trying to do policy they’re no longer doing science.
Which is why political science is an oxymoron.
From Revkin’s post:
“The remarkable thing is that global temperatures have remained close to the peak values of the late 1990s despite the fact that natural sources of variability would indicate that they should have cooled. “
These guys keep getting caught flatfooted. Everyone with a moiety of brains can see the trend, yet their MO is to deny everything until the last possible moment they can hold out.
They did this with the “pause”, until it became undeniable that temperatures simply were not going up. They’re denying now the incipient “decline”, which lately has become apparent if you look at the plot here.
To the point of the quoted line above, it takes time to turn around a fully laden supertanker. It takes even longer to turn around the entire global climate. But, the turnaround is in sight. The most likely forecast for the future is business as usual, which means the current natural trend, and its natural ~60 year cyclic component, will probably continue on into the near future.
And, as long as temperatures are declining, atmospheric CO2 will continue to decelerate, even as human emissions keep accelerating. Before terribly long, the discrepancy will become so stark that people will realize the alarm was wrong on its most basic point, i.e., that humans are not in the driver’s seat as far as atmospheric CO2 concentration is concerned.
I haven’t seen any news about what the APS is gonna do about this. Koonin was the head of their sub-committee, but already I’ve seen rumors that the rest of the committee wouldn’t go along with him. It would be nice to have real information. Maybe someone should ask him.