Re: OT: interesting global warming quote found elsewhwere

On Aug 10, 6:04 pm, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
James Arthur <bogusabd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Joerg wrote:
ROFL! That would be the point where I'd stop and place the book into the
recycling bin.
Your loss. And you would have been worse off if you'd been reading the
book back in 1992, when the scientific data that Gore was popularising
was less generally accessible.

Gore was simply trying to popularise himself.

Graham

The "scientific [AGW] data" existed in 1992 ?  Doubtful,
no matter how you view it today.

http://www.edf.org/documents/381_FactSheet_globalwarming_timeline.pdf

Yes, and if you dig into the historical records you'll find ~ 350 ppm of CO2 in
the atmosphere recorded in parts of Europe in the 1800s.

The analytical techniques were pretty primitive back then, so my guess
would be that the uncertainty on the measurement would be of the order
of +/-200 ppm. The first Scandanavian attempts to monitor atmospheric
carbon dioxide levels inn the 1950s gave very erratic results..

The results back then were most certainly not sloppy. Look at how much basic science
dates from that era. Furthermore CO2 concentration is not difficult to measure.

That's your bizarre and ill-informed opinion. The American Institute
of Physics article on the subject that I cited and you clearly didn't
read tells a rather different - and appreciably more credible - story.
See below.

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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