Comments on: Climate Change and Our National Interest

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:16:11 +0000

Bill, you have lost all credibility. I don’t remember you attacking Al Gore for using Hurricane Katrina as proof of Global Warming.

It is sad that all Liberals have to be dishonest all the time.

Also, attacking someones patriotism because they disagree with you is outrageous. Liberals like your self always accuse conservatives of attacking your patriotism, yet the evidence shows its Liberals who attack.

What an idiot you are. Pure liberal idiot.

You have been proven wrong, yet you will never admitt it. You are nothing but a political hack!!!!

By: Jeff in NoVA

Jeff in NoVA — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:13:42 +0000

I’d rather be unpatriotic than a tool for a movement built on bad science and the censoring of rivals.

Admit it, the emperor has no clothes. The “movement” is dead. You can blog about shouting “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, but it is over.

By: Steve A Morris

Steve A Morris — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:51:25 +0000

Bill,

Take a look at a recent Blog I wrote (http://theendisfar.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/q-are-1000s-of-climate-scientists-wrong/) regarding this very issue. Convection and Latent Heat of Vaporization are so efficient at cooling the planet, “trapping” 2 Watts per square meter at the surface cannot be measured as temperature.

For example, a cubic meter of water at 14 C (average Sea Surface Temp) contains ~1.2 Billion Joules. It takes ~4 Million joules to raise the Temp 1 C. The 2 Watts that CO2 “traps” only make up for about 1/2,000,000 of what it takes to raise the temp 1 C.

As for being “unpatriotic” for being a skeptic, I suppose all who use the Scientific Method are unpatriotic.

Very disappointed, you have been a true scientist up to this point.

By: GeologistBill

GeologistBill — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:25:25 +0000

I saw your interview on CNN and was disappointed, you basically talked about weather with regard to the recent snowstorms and cold winter. Are you not aware that from the Climategate scandal that Jones at the CRU has admitted flawed data? The global warming hoax is coming to an end. The UK media gets it, and do the people of the United States get it – just check out CNNs’ ratings. We have more pressing needs as a society than wasting trillions of dollars on needless carbon mitigation schemes.

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:33:31 +0000

Bill,
How can you call us unpatriotic? Bill, you are not a scientist, you are only an entertainer. I didn’t know that you would let your liberal views cloud your intelligence, please try to understand the facts before you make a fool of yourself again.

By: Bob Armstrong

Bob Armstrong — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:47:53 +0000

@ Delta , February 13, 2010 at 11:22 pm : Thanks for the “shout out” . May get a few others to peruse http://CoSy.com .

I guess I feel as competent as you to argue these issues because I grew up religiously watching Don Herbert which likely contributed to my getting an 800 on my physics college board . You likely noticed my logo which is the projection of a 6 dimensional cube rotated to make all the vertices visible . The hard part was figuring out how to draw it , or any dimensional cube with a minimal continuous line . I did that about 30 years ago in APL to show the potential of computer aided intelligence . That’s what allows me to state we’re about 8c warmer than a gray body in our orbit and be far from whelmed by the quality of the quantitative physical understanding of planetary temperature I see on either side in this existentially consequential debate .

BTW , I think you ought to consider more closely the , to me , astoundingly enhanced growth with more CO2 of the pine trees in the graphic , for which I wish I had better attribution , which I linked . Consider the grade school fact that every bite of food in every corner of the planet is ultimately more than 90% CO2 combined with H2O by sunlight , and therefore so are you . One ought to be skeptical in the extreme when told the substance out of which they are made is going to kill the very life it allows to exist .

By: Tomas

Tomas — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:11:01 +0000

Hannibal, Read my above post. By the way, consider the amount of silt that pours into the oceans every year, it is in the 600,000 metric tons range. It is THE major cause of rising sea levels.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:58:27 +0000

Oh Bill, it looks like your all going to need good lawyers. Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

By: Terry Wolfe

Terry Wolfe — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:36:22 +0000

I see patriotism as a an obligation for living in the best country on the planet. This requires me to question political efforts to damage our freedoms and independence. To allow questionable claims cost us $Billions of wealth transfer to unproductive 3rd world countries makes no sense. A strong US economy will do more to power international growth than sapping the strength of America.
The “science” even fails the laugh test. Imaging a sports stadium with 35,000 people in it cheering for their team. In the crowd are 10 people sprinkled through the crowd for the other side. That is the CO2 level from 150 years ago. Today the count has increased to 13. Can we agree that this would seem to be an almost insignificant change. So Bill let me ask, Really?

By: HMcKinney

HMcKinney — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:08:06 +0000

It is amazing and mindnumbing to see so many people get hung-up over your post. Though, that is society for you. It is true that the Earth goes through climatic change, but that takes thousands of years to achieve this. The current warming of the Earth’s atmosphere is cuased by access CO2; we humans are the one’s to blame for this. Simply put: too much CO2 in the air is warming our atmosphere via trapping the Sun’s radiation. This radiation will cause our polar ice caps to melt over time. This increase in fresh water will cause the ocean’s level to rise. There will also be an increase in moisture in the air, which in turn, will cause stronger storms such as Hurricanes and Blizzards.

Global Warming ( or Climate Change ) is a very real and dangerous threat that is going to change the very existance of the way we live. I shutter to think what will the 22nd Century would be if we somehow don’t take the steps to curb the tide of the rising levels of CO2.

One would only have to look at pictures of Glacier National Park, or the icebergs that are forming off the coast of Greenland at a dramatic rate. Even in Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, the ice shelfs and caps are melting. In places like Alaska, the permafrost is melting, too. Think about it, the PERMAfrost is MELTING!

Several islands in the South Pacific are in danger of disappearing all together. The islands of Tavalu are only 4.5 meters above sea level. If the levels of the Pacific continue to rise, this will not only sink the islands, but destroy crops such as the Coconut tree.

Let’s not forget the hundreds of millions of other people that live in low lying areas around the world; places such as South Asia, the Low Counties of Europe, and coastal areas of the US, just to name a few. Where would these people go if the sea rises just an additional 10 feet? How would the world respond to a crisis in which millions are displaced and is facing starvation. How would the World’s economy be effected by this?

The time is now. The World’s governments need to come with a plan to stop this tragedy from happening, before it is too late.

Bill, it takes a man of great courage to do what you’re doing. Not too many people are willing to stick their neck’s out on the line and tell the truth like it is. I’ve always been a fan of you’re since I was a young child, but now, I respect you even more! Thanks for all the good work you’re doing!

Hannibal J. McKinney.