Foucaulf
Jr. Member
Posts: 1,050
|
 |
« on: June 06, 2015, 05:13:19 PM » |
|
As someone who still believes in climate change and had to learn a lot on the issue, the last few supportive posts aren't doing any favors. Look, if you want to talk to a skeptic, you should at least know about:
-claims that the urban heat effect may bias estimates of surface temperature taken in modern times;
-claims of insignificant or inaccurate measures by seawater buoys, important due to recent theory that predict a good deal of heat captured by the atmosphere circulates in oceans;
-models that propose self-regulating climate systems which diffuse heat;
-the fact that many estimates of the economic impact of global warming is highly, highly preliminary, due to imperfect data.
Take, for example, Nagas's graph on the last page. It says "Global Temperature" - but "global temperature" from where? That may deceive a regular Monbiot column reader, but it won't pass scrutiny when a global emissions agreement is on the line. Since global emissions regimes are one of the most intractable collective action problems of our time, you sure as hell should hope the data is rock-solid.
|
