Nice work Brian!
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:57:29 +0000 > Subject: [LU] Sort of LU: Tortuous attempt to explain climate change using LU > analogies > > Nigel Barber --> > > The Met Office, with all its equipment, all its staff, all its experience, > > is still making educated guesses at tomorrow's weather. What does > > that say about our understanding of the atmosphere? > > Look, we can all predict the near certainty of Colchester getting soundly > thrashed this afternoon. (That's the CLIMATE.) We can't predict with any > accuracy in which minute Snoddy will first put in a decent cross. (That's the > WEATHER.) > > To claim climate change predictions are worthless because weather forecasts > aren't wholly accurate is to fail to understand the difference. > > Peter Cass --> > > If GW is legit explain why last year was only the 2nd hottest year we've > > had? And why temps worldwide have decreased 4 out of the last 5 years > > As Simon Grayson leads us inexorably back to the summit of English football, > there will no doubt be a few reversals along the way. Perhaps we'll briefly > drop below Charlton. But losing 2 league games out of the last 3 no more > makes > SG a poor manager than your figures (even if true) say a jot against global > warming. > > Just because we're currently heading towards Summer in the UK doesn't mean > tomorrow will necessarily be a little warmer than today, the day after will > be > a little warmer still, and so on, day after day, until July. > > Sorry, but your argument is nonsense. > > Talking of which, > Nigel again --> > > It's an issue of scale, e.g. the total energy burnt by mankind in a year > > is about 10,000 times less than the energy we get from the sun in the > > same period. We're really quite insignificant, except in our own minds. > > It's not the ENERGY we generate that's warming the Earth; it's the GASES > we're > putting into the atmosphere that slow the escape from Earth of the energy > originally from the Sun. Never noticed how much colder it gets on a cloudless > night? That's the same effect. Clouds, greenhouse gases - they trap the heat > like a blanket. I don't find it very intuitive what a difference a bit of > cloud cover makes, but there you go. > > As for scale and insignificance, there are about 6,700,000,000 of these > insignificant little creatures on the planet. Your share of all the world's > land - forest, farmland, frozen tundra, whatever - works out at about > 149metres x 149 metres by a quick calculation. That's about three times the > area of the pitch at ER. Still so sure you can have no effect on your little > patch of planet? > > > _______________________________________________ > the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators > accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. > Leedslist mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > www.leedslist.net _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist www.leedslist.net
