Candidates for Inhofe's list?
Discussion
Kyle L. Swanson and Anastasios A. Tsonis, professors in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have recently published a paper with a theory that they think explains some of the natural changes in climate.
http://www.uwm.edu/~kswanson/publications/2008GL03...
These scientists hold the mainstream view that some climate change is natural and some is man-made.
The denierblogsphere has lit up with the report of their paper, claiming that it disproves AGW.
One classic mis-quote of Prof. Anastasios A. Tsonis that I've seen is "I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing.", whereas the whole sentence is ""But if we don't understand what is natural, I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing."
The deniers also miss out interesting snippets like:
"Moreover, we caution that the shifts described here are presumably superimposed upon a long term warming trend due to anthropogenic forcing."
and
"Finally, it is vital to note that there is no comfort to be gained by having a climate with a significant degree of internal variability, even if it results in a near-term cessation of global warming. It is straightforward to argue that a climate with significant internal variability is a climate that is very sensitive to applied anthropogenic radiative anomalies. If the role of internal variability in the climate system is as large as this analysis would seem to suggest, warming over the 21st century may well be larger than that predicted by the current generation of models, given the propensity of those models to underestimate climate internal variability."
So back to the point of this post... who reckons that Senator Inhofe's next list of dissenters will include Tsonis and/or Swanson?
http://www.uwm.edu/~kswanson/publications/2008GL03...
These scientists hold the mainstream view that some climate change is natural and some is man-made.
The denierblogsphere has lit up with the report of their paper, claiming that it disproves AGW.
One classic mis-quote of Prof. Anastasios A. Tsonis that I've seen is "I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing.", whereas the whole sentence is ""But if we don't understand what is natural, I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing."
The deniers also miss out interesting snippets like:
"Moreover, we caution that the shifts described here are presumably superimposed upon a long term warming trend due to anthropogenic forcing."
and
"Finally, it is vital to note that there is no comfort to be gained by having a climate with a significant degree of internal variability, even if it results in a near-term cessation of global warming. It is straightforward to argue that a climate with significant internal variability is a climate that is very sensitive to applied anthropogenic radiative anomalies. If the role of internal variability in the climate system is as large as this analysis would seem to suggest, warming over the 21st century may well be larger than that predicted by the current generation of models, given the propensity of those models to underestimate climate internal variability."
So back to the point of this post... who reckons that Senator Inhofe's next list of dissenters will include Tsonis and/or Swanson?
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