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why in this heated debate are the climatologists then the only ones not getting their 15 mins of fame on TV? Surely this debate would be better served if they did come out of hiding? They're not exactly in hiding ....... but there are thousands of them all around the world. One or two get prominenc...

(are not known outside of climatological circles. ) Why not? Are they shy? Why should they be known? They're scientists, not rock stars ;) How many palaeontologists do you think the average man in the street could name?* And dinosaurs are a lot more popular and sexy that studying gas in ice cores o...

(The time lag is debated, but this is nonetheless irrelevant. No-one has ever claimed that interglacials are caused by rising levels of CO2. ) So what did? Till you can explain that how on Earth can you ignore the possibility that the sequence is repeating? 8 winters spaced 12 months apart would at...

Consider, to create an accurate model of how Earth's works you need accurate data on such things as, ocean currents, how they interact with seas around them and the land masses, their seasonal and long term variations. Similarly for the jet streams. Green house gases, water vapour being much more e...

The earths atmosphere is 0.034% Co2 Currently 0.0385% Co2 is the most insignificant of all the greenhouse gases It's always been regarded as the most significant, in part due to it's longevity compared to others like methane. However, it's true the water vapour is the most common greenhouse gas. Of...

When reputable scientists who object to the drama and hysteria currently associated with GW start receiving death threats, as some have reported, I see little difference between that and Galileo's stand before the inquisition. The difference being that there are lots more equally or even more reput...

Well a superflood, from an ice dam burst, for example, could well last for several hours or even days, whereas a tsunami would be over in a matter of minutes. Of course, if the 'flood' were so massive that it drastically altered the contours of the landscape, leaving what was once fertile farmland a...

Granted Essan. But the earth is not a porcelain bathtub with smooth sides. I think there are areas that can swiftly be inundated by rising sea levels . The Black Sea theory proposed by Ryan and Pitman was very well done some time back, but has come under much criticism recently. But that's the sort...

Most of the models I have seen do not call for a slow meltdown, though. All models and data indicate a gradual meltdown, punctuated with the occasions ice dam collapse - but even the worst of these would only have produced global sea rises of a few inches. Although in geological terms it was pretty...

More journalistic spin then. Never trust the media, they are somewhat prone to 'misquoting out of context' - always check out the original source of the story. Hmmm, what was Hancock's occupation again? :lol: btw the actual research does look interesting :) Though not, I suspect, pertinent to curren...

Thermal expansion of sea water? http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mva/WR1987/WR1987.html Too bl**dy complicated for me! But the simple answer is that it's not a big effect. As far as the past goes - I think tropical sea temperatures are estimated at around 1-2c lower than today. Arctic waters were, o...

He mentioned, in a conversation with GH, that the Mediterranean Sea was dry at the end of the last ice age. :shock: Sea levels were lower but it wasn't dry. Can't find a map off hand, but the main differences were Malta and Sicily joined to Italy, the top half of the Adriatic dry, and many of the A...

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2006/04/14/outdoors/out_41.txt Some cool pictures comparing montanas glaciers of today to pics taken in the early 1900's. IN the early 1900s we were not long out of the Little Ice Age. It's a bit like comparing snow cover in March with snow cover in September .......

The UN published its findings in 2001 called its Third Assessment Report showing two graphs, one of the rising CO2 levels and the other of rising temperatures. When superimposed they show temperature rises taking place BEFORE CO2 levels rise. No one can say with certainty whether, in the past, CO2 ...

Mike Flaugher is not a name I recognise. The most recent research on this subject (is GW caused by the Sun) was carried out by Krivova and Solanki and reported in 2004 http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2004/pressRelease20040802/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/...