Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, CO2 is a greenhouse gas and is likely increasing the global > temperature - probably at a miniscule rate compared to the rate of warming > due to natural cosmological and geothermal causes. > Yeah? How many papers on this subject have you published? Do you have a PhD in some closely related subject? Frankly, your tone irks me. Your categorical assertions rub me the wrong way. If you were to say with some hesitation, "it seems to me . . ." or "I have read thus-and-such in an authoritative journal that . . ." it would sound more professional to me. I have sat with world-class experts on electrochemistry and various physics problems. I mean I have spend weeks in labs with people such as Fleischmann, FRS and people with Nobel laureates. They wrote the book on modern science. They have physical effects named after them. Those people do not make assertions with the kind of overweening confidence you express here. Even when the assertions pertain to their own area of expertise, they still hedge them. I am pretty sure that I were to ask these world-class scientists "what do you think of global warming?" they would largely defer to the climatologists. I am sure they would not claim "I know better than the experts." The might say, "I have some doubts about thus and such . . ." Cold fusion happens to be new subject in which there are no experts yet. Anyone's opinion may have merit. Practically nothing is settled yet, except the heat, and the ratio and helium to heat with the Pd-D system. Climatology, on the other hand, is well developed, deep science, with data going back thousands of years, and many confirmations. As I said, it is related to weather prediction, and anyone can see that discipline has improved by leaps and bounds in recent decades. It is impossible for me to imagine that weather forecasts have made tremendous progress yet a closely related field is completely at sea with no progress and no better proof than it had decades ago. Science does not work that way. - Jed
