Re: [Pen-l] Global Warming enquirey

[Paul Phillips <phillipsp@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all of you that responded to my query.  As a result I sent my 
friend a very long email compendium of articles and comments countering 
Munckton's 'cookoo/junk science.'  I have yet to find out if I was able 
to convince my friend or whether he is still my friend :-\

Paul


Les Schaffer wrote:

> Paul Phillips wrote:
> > I received this from a friend who is, as a result, a climate change 
> > skeptic.  I don't have the scientific knowledge to refute the claims 
> > and have relied on the IPCC for my information.  Does anyone know 
> > where such a refutation of this specific attack can be found or is 
> > anyone knowledgeable enough to compose a reply?
>
> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/11/cuckoo-science/
>
> > Why so large and crucial an exaggeration? Answer: the IPCC has 
> > repealed the fundamental physical the Stefan-Boltzmann equation - 
> > that converts radiant energy to temperature. 
>
> when i saw this line, i knew Munckton was not worth wasting time over. 
> but people like your friend are likely to be easily swayed by such a 
> casual remark.
>
> Les
> > Without this equation, no meaningful calculation of the effect of 
> > radiance on temperature can be done. Yet the 1,600 pages of the 
> > IPCC's 2007 report do not mention it once. 
>
>  
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