Computer Models – Simplified

OPS-20 A continuation of the discussion laid out in OPS-19.

Bottomline, there is no atmospheric CO2/Global Temperature data set that shows CO2 driving the climate on any statistically significant time scale. All anyone (scientifically oriented or not) has to do to make me reconsider my position is provide that dataset. I’ve been doing this for years and no one has (not surprising since the data doesn’t exist, not at NASA, not at NOAA, anywhere). A very basic premise of science dictates that a theory (even “Anthropogenic Global Warming” (AGW) remains a theory until real world, empirical data can be provided.

Those with open minds would be wise to research solar contributions to radiative forcing. Solar forcing (directly or indirectly (ocean cycles, fluctuating cosmic ray intensity, solar winds, etc.)) is the dominant climate driver and those influences are very visible in the historical climate datasets. The coming Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) will drop temperatures signifcantly over the next decade. Every historical GSM has brought cold weather crop losses (shorter growing seasons, floods, excessive precipitation, etc.), leading to widespread starvation and civil unrest. This GSM will not be any different. The magnitude of the temperature drop will determine the severity.