* Posts by Jamie Shannon

3 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Oct 2014

Antarctic ice at all time high: We have more to learn, says boffin

Jamie Shannon

Re: Antactica is melting too

Human production of CO2 constitutes 0.0004% of our atmosphere. If you believe that concentration "drives" global temperatures, please go back to University and study physics. Because it does not, and can not at those concentrations. It is that simple. Basic irrefutable physics. The global warming community run around spewing all sorts of numbers and "correlations", and forget the basic rules of science and mathematics: Correlation does not prove or even imply a causal relationship.

Jamie Shannon

Re: What's the problem with this?

Pour the first fluid into the glass. Put a thin cloth handkerchief over the glass, and press it down until it just touches the first fluid and forms a cone. Slowly pour the second liquid in the glass on the cone of cloth, pull the handkerchief slowly out of the glass. Repeat as necessary depending on how many layers you want in your drink. Please use a clean handkerchief.

Jamie Shannon

The Failure of "Climate Science"

"This failure of reality to match up with climate modelling ..." I presume this putting the cart before the horse was intentional on the part of the author. In any case, it accurately sums up the state of so-called "climate science". As a scientist, one develops models that explain reality. One does not build a model based on pet assumptions and desired outcomes and then complain when reality doesn't fit your world view. The very foundations of anthropomorphic global warming are based on a fairy tale. The earth's atmosphere does not work on the same thermodynamic mechanism that a greenhouse does, and there are no analogous effects that are common to them. The green house theory is a fairy tale we tell school children because it is conceptually more palatable. It has no basis in real thermodynamics. Even IF a greenhouse model were applicable, "climate scientists" continue to ignore that fact that water vapor is the driving force in temperature in such a model. CO2 exists in what are essentially trace amounts in our atmosphere. Human contribution to that trace is 2 orders of magnitude less than the total CO2 concentration. The proposition that this less than trace amount of CO2 is somehow the driving factor of global temperature is a thermodynamic absurdity.