In a discussion about Climate Modelling at Real Climate (titled "The Physics of Climate Modelling"), here is my post regarding the Chinese paper (by Chinese physicists) of the strong possibility of global cooling and the reply by Real Climate's Gavin Schmidt.
Those darn Chinese are trying to use crude modeling to say that the next 20 years brings cooling instead of warming and that CO2 increases will not be that relevant.You have to hand it to Real Climate. They won't take rubbish from anyone... even the Chinese. Of course, they won't take a different point of view from anyone. Especially if it might endanger the anthropogenic-based-CO2-global-warming gravy train that seems to be arriving at government stations near you.
Multi-scale analysis of global temperature changes
and trend of a drop in temperature in the next 20 yearshttp://www.springerlink.com/content/g28u12g2617j5021/fulltext.pdf
Obviously a Communist plot.
[Response: No, just rubbish. -gavin]
Comment by Bruce Hall — 22 Jan 2007 @ 7:25 pm
(Thanks to Dr. John Ray, Brisbane, Australia for source)
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Addendum
A further offline email exchange has convinced me that Gavin Schmidt, while an extremely intelligent and knowledgeable scientist, is not inclined to consider the perspective of those who don't align themselves with him, to wit:
I would actually expect the contrary. Dr. ABC is using well wornObviously, I changed the name.
talking points that have been dismissed in the mainstream for years.
This is not a genuine disagreement about anything substantial in
science. It is 'cuckoo' science - designed only to push real analysis
out of the nest and fool the onlookers (which it appears to have done).
If you are genuinely interested in what paleo-climate can and cannot say
about the present day situation, follow up on the links and let me know.
But Dr. ABC's arguments are just crap.
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