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The Environment / Do you support catastrophic climate change
« on: 20/02/2009 09:56:12 »
As requested.Do you support the idea that the climate is changing in a catastrophic way or is just the result of normal climate change.
I don't and have been asked for some proof from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
I have only used the site of Sydney Airport if people want to trawl through the many other sites in Australia to prove me wrong then go for it.
First rainfall for the years 1971 to 2000
Sorry I can not get the links for temp and rainfall to work.So I am afraid you will have to take my summary for both for the time being
You will note that the annual average rainfall over this period was larger than the long term average.
Next the temperature for the same years
This does show a slight increase on annual average of 0.1 not exactly the 1 degree quoted in other parts of the site.
And finally severe weather which we get mainly in the form of tropical cyclones.
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/cyclone/faq/index.shtml
You will need to go down to the section climatology and click on question 6 of that section.
In essence it says that if anything there has been a slight decrease in the number of severe cyclones.
All in all not much to suggest we are in the middle of a catastrophe.
I was also ask for some proof that the Australian CSIRO our premier scientific organization was not the trusted body it once was.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/csiro_heavy_says_dont_trust_csiros_scares/
This article quotes Art Raiche who worked for CSIRO for 35 years, the last 15 of which he held the rank of Chief Research Scientist.
Now for the IPCC.
Your chances of finding a scientist in the IPCC who disagrees with climate change are less than finding a Muslim in a mosque who disagrees with Islam.
And why don't the IPCC release the data and the models they use in their decisions what are they trying to hide.
And why of the 190 odd countries that are signatories to the Kyoto protocol is it only the 39 developed nations that have to do anything about it.
One would think that if you are all in a boat with a hole in it it is counter productive to be arguing who made the hole better for everyone to start bailing.But in the case of the developing countries not only are they not helping they seem to be intent to bail water into the boat.
As I have said in other threads here climate change is about two things
MONEY and POWER
Cheers
justaskin
I don't and have been asked for some proof from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
I have only used the site of Sydney Airport if people want to trawl through the many other sites in Australia to prove me wrong then go for it.
First rainfall for the years 1971 to 2000
Sorry I can not get the links for temp and rainfall to work.So I am afraid you will have to take my summary for both for the time being
You will note that the annual average rainfall over this period was larger than the long term average.
Next the temperature for the same years
This does show a slight increase on annual average of 0.1 not exactly the 1 degree quoted in other parts of the site.
And finally severe weather which we get mainly in the form of tropical cyclones.
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/cyclone/faq/index.shtml
You will need to go down to the section climatology and click on question 6 of that section.
In essence it says that if anything there has been a slight decrease in the number of severe cyclones.
All in all not much to suggest we are in the middle of a catastrophe.
I was also ask for some proof that the Australian CSIRO our premier scientific organization was not the trusted body it once was.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/csiro_heavy_says_dont_trust_csiros_scares/
This article quotes Art Raiche who worked for CSIRO for 35 years, the last 15 of which he held the rank of Chief Research Scientist.
Now for the IPCC.
Your chances of finding a scientist in the IPCC who disagrees with climate change are less than finding a Muslim in a mosque who disagrees with Islam.
And why don't the IPCC release the data and the models they use in their decisions what are they trying to hide.
And why of the 190 odd countries that are signatories to the Kyoto protocol is it only the 39 developed nations that have to do anything about it.
One would think that if you are all in a boat with a hole in it it is counter productive to be arguing who made the hole better for everyone to start bailing.But in the case of the developing countries not only are they not helping they seem to be intent to bail water into the boat.
As I have said in other threads here climate change is about two things
MONEY and POWER
Cheers
justaskin