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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Here is an excellent paper on the subject of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) that should be read by everyone who is interested in the subject. This paper pretty well matches my own opinions regarding the subject. I totally disagree with the IPCC approach, which is politically driven, and is not scientifically sound. I have no doubt that man affects climate, particularly regionally, but have much doubt that atmospheric CO2 concentration is a primary driver of climate. I think that natural phenomena are more important than the IPCC, which seems to take the position that natural forces prevailed until about 1970, and then natural forces disappeared, and man's activities began to drive climate (recent temperature action has caused some to retreat on this point.) I think that public policy actions now being taken around the world to curtail CO2 emissions are ill-founded and are bound to fail, causing much harm to society as a result. I think science needs to study climate to identify all of the significant factors. This will be a most difficult task, given that earth's climate is a very large unstable, non-linear dynamic system. Here is the paper.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/A_Glimpse_Inside_the_Global_Warming_Controversey.pdf

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