Anti-AGW Books and Papers

[fizzissist]

There needs to be a repository for reference materials of the counter-AGW position. I'm not putting any pro-AGW stuff in here, because it would clog the thread unbearably by the shear weight. If you want pro stuff, just google it.

I'm starting with a recently published book SLAYING THE SKY DRAGON: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory, by Tim Ball and others.

"Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory reveals startling new facts that will reverberate among international policymakers and national science institutes. A team of world renowned scientists, scholars and climate experts detail how fudged equations exaggerated the heating effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere by a factor of three. This detailed volume not only shows CO2 cannot possibly cause such warming but, indeed, is really a gas responsible for increasing the atmospheric cooling efficiency."

Book Store B&W Version: SLAYING THE SKY DRAGON: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory | Stairway Press

[cheetahcnc]

Cool, a GloBull Warming thread!

[Boltz]

Wouldn't it be more fun to discuss why there wasn't a single Republican vote in the house to remove "federal subsidies" (that translates to "welfare", "handout", or "free lunch on the taxpayer's dime" in plain english)?

Naw, prolly not.

just sayin'...

[fizzissist]

Published by Geophysical Research Letters

Recovery mechanisms of Arctic summer sea ice

..."..Hence, we find that even dramatic perturbations of summer sea␣ice cover in the Arctic are reversible on very short time scales of typically two years. This suggests that a so␣called tipping point, which would describe the sudden irreversible loss of Arctic summer sea ice during warming conditions, is unlikely to exist..."

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/...e_GRL_2011.pdf

[fizzissist]

"The climate sensitivity CS as a measure for the temperature increase found, when the actual CO2-concentration is doubled, assumesCS = 0.41 ̊C for the tropical zone, CS = 0.40 ̊C for the moderate zones and CS = 0.92 ̊C for the polar zones. The weighted average over all regions as the global climate sensitivity is found to be CS = 0.45 ̊C with an estimated uncertainty of 30%, which mostly results from the lack of more precise data for the convection between the ground and atmosphere as well as the atmospheric backscattering…. The values for the global climate sensitivity published by the IPCC [3] cover a range from 2.1 ̊C – 4.4 ̊C with an average value of 3.2 ̊C, which is seven times larger than that predicted here."

Abstract:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.o...011-4505-1.pdf

Will be interesting to see if this paper is robust! If it is......it's a huge embarrassment for the IPCC!!

The literal translation of all this is that the "tipping point" predicted by Hansen, and impending doom from the projected doubling of CO2 is grossly overstated. It also reinforces the point that increases in CO2 do NOT impact temperature in a linear way.