Global Warming
This is a piece ripped unashamedly from Jerry Pournelle’s blog
(http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/2008/Q2/view515.html#Thursday):
Phil Chapman makes Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352241,00.html
Until recently the Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age were thought to have a connection. Apparently man made global warming is more important now. Hypothesis: if the sunspot minimum continues during 2008 then the Earth will be cooler in January 2009 than it is now. Second hypothesis: climate model builders will have a good explanation that shows the Earth is still warming, but we just don’t see it yet.
I quote this becuase I think he’s right - next year will be cooler, and the global warming fanatics will claim that it is just a variation in the long trend upwards - what complete bull. All the information seems to suggest that we plateaued about ten years ago (yes ten years where the average world temperature has not gone up) and the next bit of the cycle will probably be down - based on experience, as oppossed to nonsensical models.
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April 25, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Jerry Pournelle is apparently a MUCH smater person than stanley kim robinson.
April 26, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Well, they both have a PhD, and Jerry’s IQ is apparently in the 180s which makes him smarter than just about all of us! It doesn’t stop him being wrong, or just plain “ornery”.
I just think that KSR, like a lot of very smart people, has got it wrong.