GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE SUMMARY
Paul H. Carr, Ph. D., debated with Prof Laurence I. Gould on
Saturday, Nov 19. 2011 at the New England Section of the American Physical
Society Meeting at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Carr's PowerPoint talk was entitled, Data
Supporting Anthropogenic Global Warming: Balancing Economics and Ecology It is available on his web page
http://mirrorofnature.org/GlobalWarmingDebateNESAPS.pdf (It might take
15 seconds to download.)
Prof
Laurence I. Gould' talk was Anthropogenic
“Global Warming” —
Illuminating some of its Scientific and
Methodological Flaws. His web page http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/lgould/ includes
"GOULD PRESENTATION," is
almost the same PowerPoint he used for the debate.
SUMMARY OF HUMAN INFLUENCE ON
GLOBAL WARMING
-Correlation of
carbon dioxide, C02, and temperature increases since the beginning of the
industrial era.
-Carbon dioxide increase is from burning fossil fuels (Carbon
Dating).
-Increased greenhouse gases (C02) blanket and warm the earth’s surface, allowing less heat to reach the
stratosphere, which is cooling.
-Solar irradiance has not increased since 1940 (sunspot cycles).
-Present CO2 level of 390 ppm is 31% higher than in the last
800,000yrs.
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Extrapolates to 900 ppm by 2100.
-When CO2 was
900 ppm, 51 Million years ago, earth was ice-free, sea levels 100s of feet
higher.
-Present sea levels are
projected to increase 2.5 – 6 ft by 2100.
- Without the radiative forcing of noncondensing CO2, the
terrestrial greenhouse would collapse, plunging the global climate into an
icebound earth state
Dr. Carr's talk references included:
(1) Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s
Temperature;
Andrew
A. Lacis et.al. Science, 330, 356-359, 15 October 2010
(2) Reconciling Anthropogenic Climate Change
with Observed Temperature 1998–2008. Robert
K. Kaufmann et al. Proc. National Academy of Sciences 2011 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/06/27/1102467108
Prof Gould's talk references
included: