tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733542395194695896.post1286618089533318769..comments2023-10-30T17:20:29.218+00:00Comments on HEART OF BALANCE: HEART OF BALANCE: RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL SPEECH PART 1heartofbalancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18427269778599802068noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733542395194695896.post-56504994298787685102018-06-03T09:07:39.348+00:002018-06-03T09:07:39.348+00:00Dear Islander,
Sorry it has taken so long to get b...Dear Islander,<br />Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you-I only just saw this. I absolutely agree-what is coming to be called the Anthropocene is not yet proven but highly likely. In any event it is not wise to wait until the house has burned down before you start fetching some water.<br />In case you may wish to explore the evidence, here are some references from Nasa'a web page:References<br />IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Summary for Policymakers<br /><br />B.D. Santer et.al., “A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere,” Nature vol 382, 4 July 1996, 39-46<br /><br />Gabriele C. Hegerl, “Detecting Greenhouse-Gas-Induced Climate Change with an Optimal Fingerprint Method,” Journal of Climate, v. 9, October 1996, 2281-2306<br /><br />V. Ramaswamy et.al., “Anthropogenic and Natural Influences in the Evolution of Lower Stratospheric Cooling,” Science 311 (24 February 2006), 1138-1141<br /><br />B.D. Santer et.al., “Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes,” Science vol. 301 (25 July 2003), 479-483.<br /><br />In the 1860s, physicist John Tyndall recognized the Earth's natural greenhouse effect and suggested that slight changes in the atmospheric composition could bring about climatic variations. In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.<br /><br />National Research Council (NRC), 2006. Surface Temperature Reconstructions For the Last 2,000 Years. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.<br /><br />http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page3.php<br /><br />https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf<br /><br />Church, J. A. and N.J. White (2006), A 20th century acceleration in global sea level rise, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L01602, doi:10.1029/2005GL024826.<br /><br />The global sea level estimate described in this work can be downloaded from the CSIRO website.<br /><br />https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/<br /><br />http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature<br /><br />http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp<br /><br />https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20170118/ <br />Levitus, et al, "Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems," Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L07608 (2009).<br /><br />L. Polyak, et.al., “History of Sea Ice in the Arctic,” in Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes, U.S. Geological Survey, Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2, January 2009, chapter 7<br /><br />R. Kwok and D. A. Rothrock, “Decline in Arctic sea ice thickness from submarine and ICESAT records: 1958-2008,” Geophysical Research Letters, v. 36, paper no. L15501, 2009<br /><br />http://nsidc.org/sotc/sea_ice.html<br /><br />National Snow and Ice Data Center<br /><br />World Glacier Monitoring Service<br /><br />"Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change," National Academies Press, 2016<br />https://www.nap.edu/read/21852/chapter/1<br /><br />Kunkel, K. et al, "Probable maximum precipitation and climate change," Geophysical Research Letters, (12 April 2013) DOI: 10.1002/grl.50334 <br /><br />Kunkel, K. et al, "Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of the Knowledge," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2012.<br /><br />https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/cei/<br /><br />http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F<br /><br />http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Acidification<br /><br />C. L. Sabine et.al., “The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2,” Science vol. 305 (16 July 2004), 367-371<br /><br />Copenhagen Diagnosis, p. 36.<br /><br />National Snow and Ice Data Center<br /><br />C. Derksen and R. Brown, "Spring snow cover extent reductions in the 2008-2012 period exceeding climate model projections," GRL, 39:L19504<br /><br />http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/sotc/snow_extent.html<br /><br />Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, Data History Accessed August 29, 2011.heartofbalancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18427269778599802068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733542395194695896.post-90588489606508953962017-05-07T17:26:32.509+00:002017-05-07T17:26:32.509+00:00Man made global warming hasn't been proved. Gl...Man made global warming hasn't been proved. Global warming, maybe. Islanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04653864401970866619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733542395194695896.post-1115030023567493232017-04-04T17:10:26.771+00:002017-04-04T17:10:26.771+00:00Well first may I thank you for your thoughtful res...Well first may I thank you for your thoughtful response to my little, purely personal, thoughts on our present political shenanigans. I claim no expertise. Like you, these are just my thoughts and hopefully helpful even if occasionally provocative.<br />Regarding climate change through global warming I tend not to get into a debate if it is or is not happening. The evidence points to the fact that it is and this is supported by nearly every reputable scientist in the World. That is enough to make Global Warming a Fact. A scientific fact. The proofs for this just pile up over the last 40 years and then there is the evidence of our own eyes and senses. There seems no point in discussing facts. The denial of climate change is therefore based on something other than facts and, of course, you and everyone else who thinks so are completely entitled to your opinions. It's a bit like GOD! I seen no evidence for the existence of GOD so I presume on the absence of evidence that there is no God but I don't want to torture or kill believers in him/her/IT!<br />Of course I take your point on the Western Propaganda Machine and bemoan it but I do wonder about the rise of the crew of Russian Apologists in the teeth of growing evidence of a corrupt kleptocracy thriving under Putin and his cronies. But equally I think Blair and Bush should be looking at the World from the walls of a jail cell for their war crimes. What is the difference you ask between the depredations of the West and the crimes of Putin and Assad? I answer-To the dead, there is no difference.heartofbalancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18427269778599802068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733542395194695896.post-3665391688348496312017-03-28T21:00:34.303+00:002017-03-28T21:00:34.303+00:00I wouldn't have voted from Trump but neither w...I wouldn't have voted from Trump but neither would I have voted for the alternative candidate. I have no moral responsibility to vote for someone or anyone. Trump's speech is, as you suggest, typical of a newly elected president or prime minister. After all, the great saviour of the world, Barrack Obama, said many things but, apart from being the first black U.S. president, achieved nothing of note. <br />Trump seems uncomfortable to me, he is a man in a place that he didn't expect or even want to be. The American people though had every right to be wrong (if that is what they are) and elect him. It's really depressing that a country that has stood for so many good things (and bad) can be so bereft of any really inspiring candidates for the biggest office of all.<br />If Trump is setting the world on a course of ecological oblivion then may be Mrs. Thatcher wasn't so bad, after all she destroyed the coal mining industry in this country.<br />Personally I don't buy into the gospel of man made global warming, it hasn't been proved, but for that I am labeled a 'climate change denier' sounds a bit like 'Holocaust denier' so it must be something sinister.<br />I also voted to leave what I believe is the corrupt EU, with it's free-loading parasites, but again this view tars me with a particular brush. I must vote for UKIP, I am a little Englander and I am xenophobic. <br />The Syrian refugee crisis is the result of a many faceted terror, which started with the west destabilizing the Middle East. Of the terror of men, women, children and MEN are being slaughtered in their beds. <br />That Basher Al Assad and Vladimir Putin are ruthless men I have no doubt, but the fashion for comparing any nasty leader with Hitler is very tiring. <br />We are constantly fed, on the news channels, a diet of self-righteous tripe, which amounts to anti-Russian propaganda. Inch by inch, the truth about the Western 'coalition's bombing of Mosul is beginning to emerge in the mainstream media. Not only Mosul but Felluja too. What is the difference between this, where we were fighting Isis, but sadly killed hundreds of innocent men, women and children cowering in sheer terror at the bombardment from the air, and Assad and Putin doing exactly the same thing in Alepo? The difference, according to 24 hour news and our wonderful political classes, is that Putin and Assad are war criminals and we are not. <br /><br /> <br />Islanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04653864401970866619noreply@blogger.com