The "hottest day on record" is a frequent scare tactic, inspired by the remarks of the first IPCC Chair, Sir John Houghton, who said "If we don't announce disasters, nobody will pay attention." The "yada yada yada on record" tactic is an example of Mark Twain's "Lies, damned lies, and statistics." The thermometer was invented in 1753. In 1850, temperatures were being routinely recorded at exactly one place in the Southern Hemisphere: Jakarta. Surface records were (and are) notoriously unreliable. So the "record" extends back to 1979, when NASA launched satellites that measured tropospheric temperature profiles with worldwide coverage. At no time since 1753 have Vikings been growing barley and raising sheep in Greenland. So the "hottest day on record" is an intentional lie.
CO2 composed 2,500 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere 150 million years ago. Because marine creatures and plants combine it with calcium to make bones and shells, which ultimately become limestone, it has declined on an essentially straight line, at 14.6 ppm per million years, to 280 ppm in 1750. Plants die at 150 ppm. The Earth was scheduled to die in about nine million years. Fortunately, the Industrial Revolution has raised it to 415 ppm, extending the Earth's lease on life to 18 million years. Reducing CO2 emissions is *exactly* the *wrong* thing to be doing. Read "Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom" by Dr. Patrick Moore.
The "panel" part of IPCC is a pack of liars, composed of two political appointees from each of the UN's 193 member governments. The chapter lead authors and editors for the Scientific Annexes are chosen by full-time political UN staff. The Summary for Policymakers must be approved line by line, behind closed doors, by the Panel. The chapter editors, and the Panel, have many times either inverted or buried scientists' conclusions. Prof. Richard Lindzen (MIT, Meteorology) resigned after they suppressed 15 findings in the chapter for which he was the lead author, and the manuscript had been approved by the other 27 chapter authors -- and he's not the only one. Read Chapter 3 of "Where Will We Get Our Energy" at http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/Whence-Energy.html
The "hottest day on record" is a frequent scare tactic, inspired by the remarks of the first IPCC Chair, Sir John Houghton, who said "If we don't announce disasters, nobody will pay attention." The "yada yada yada on record" tactic is an example of Mark Twain's "Lies, damned lies, and statistics." The thermometer was invented in 1753. In 1850, temperatures were being routinely recorded at exactly one place in the Southern Hemisphere: Jakarta. Surface records were (and are) notoriously unreliable. So the "record" extends back to 1979, when NASA launched satellites that measured tropospheric temperature profiles with worldwide coverage. At no time since 1753 have Vikings been growing barley and raising sheep in Greenland. So the "hottest day on record" is an intentional lie.
CO2 composed 2,500 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere 150 million years ago. Because marine creatures and plants combine it with calcium to make bones and shells, which ultimately become limestone, it has declined on an essentially straight line, at 14.6 ppm per million years, to 280 ppm in 1750. Plants die at 150 ppm. The Earth was scheduled to die in about nine million years. Fortunately, the Industrial Revolution has raised it to 415 ppm, extending the Earth's lease on life to 18 million years. Reducing CO2 emissions is *exactly* the *wrong* thing to be doing. Read "Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom" by Dr. Patrick Moore.
The "panel" part of IPCC is a pack of liars, composed of two political appointees from each of the UN's 193 member governments. The chapter lead authors and editors for the Scientific Annexes are chosen by full-time political UN staff. The Summary for Policymakers must be approved line by line, behind closed doors, by the Panel. The chapter editors, and the Panel, have many times either inverted or buried scientists' conclusions. Prof. Richard Lindzen (MIT, Meteorology) resigned after they suppressed 15 findings in the chapter for which he was the lead author, and the manuscript had been approved by the other 27 chapter authors -- and he's not the only one. Read Chapter 3 of "Where Will We Get Our Energy" at http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/Whence-Energy.html
"In fact, most Pacific islands have gained area in the face of rising sea levels." How is this seeming paradox possible?
Accretion. And the fact that corals go to keep up with sea level rise.