Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
Reply #757 –
The IPCC relies upon climate models which have been shown to be deficient… Why?
Once again, many of the models proved to be dead right. You complained before about models be adjusted to past actual temperature readings from buoys. That's not a scandal, but double checking the data. As it so happened, the models prior to this underestimated the climate change. It would have been a problem is they deliberately lowered past climatic "data" to below the past temperature readings, but that's not what happened. So no the global temperature was not "hacked." In the absence of actually data contrary to Anthropogenic Climate Change, the blogs you read were forced to attempt to manufacture a scandal. In the end it doesn't matter
Whence the electricity, Sang?
Here? Hydroelectric and solar. But yes, there will still be coal plants online for the next few decades. Even electricity sourced from that will still generate less emissions than a gasoline powered internal combustion engine.
What I don't get is: Why?
Why what? Why the Paris treaty was signed? Because empirical evidence shows human emissions are the main culprit in climate change. This remains no matter what you or anyone says about the IPCC (while forgetting it's far from all climate models.) Oh before you were confused about my participation in this thread. Is that it? I believe your source of confusion comes from outdated Right/Left politics. You also have this notion that I'm some big government Leftist for reasons I can't fathom. In this thread, look at what I've been pushing. That would be the Third Industrial Revolution, in which the old polluting technology gives way to cleaner and more efficient tech. Why is this? Because I like clean air and economic growth. It's very simple once you put away your old notions.