This is Not Cool. Heatwave 2011.

Brought to you courtesy of YouTube's Greenman3610 Channel



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I've shared this with my pals over at SkepticForum and received the following reply:

["citizenschallenge" wrote]If you think what Peter Sinclair has presented there is false or misrepresenting the facts, can you come with authoritative contra-arguments to what that video portrays?

["X" wrote] That video is not science, it is political rhetoric.
Why should I pay any attention to a cartoonist's propaganda?

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Seemed to me the video was a pretty serious line up of information, even if delivered in an easy manner. Why is it so easy for folks to dismiss it all out of hand?
Why the refusal to look at the substance contained within the video?

Where's that superior exclusionary attitude come from?

I've gone through the video again and highlighted what seems like points worth taking seriously.
I've even highlighted the sources of those statements, though I've added on some additional substantive links. And decided to share my note taking over here.

Unauthorized Notes: "This is Not Cool. Heatwave 2011."
by greenman3610 aka Peter Sinclair

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0:55 - 1953 - Gilbert Plass “Growing Blanket of Carbon Dioxide Raises Earth’s Temperature”
(1950’s intensive US military study of heat radiation in the atmosphere -
the science is settled enough to make self guided heat-seeking missiles accurate!)
Also see 1959 Scientific America article

1:20 - 1958 - Climate Change: The Bell Telephone Science Hour - Dr. Baxter explains CO2 knowledge and its implications.

1:30 - 1965 - Science Advisory Panel Report to President Johnson
“Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment...” here

1:50 - 1979 - Woods Hole, Climate Research Board - Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences - National Research Council
“Report of an Ad Hoc Study Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate”
“A “wait and see” policy may mean waiting until it is too late...”

2:00 - Young Stephen Schneider sharing the prevailing scientific consensus understanding.

2:10 - 1988 - Isaac Asimov - pointing out that he, and others, have been talking about CO2 and it’s global warming ramification for the past twenty years and more.

2:30 - 1988 - Hansen’s Congressional testimony

2:40 - General Gordon Sullivan, former Chief of Staff US Army, Global climate change presents a serious national security threat

3:00 - now we have entered an era of consequences

3:20 - Admiral David Titley, Chief Oceanographer US Navy

3:35 - impacts - US Drought Map

3:45 - US Global Change Research Program, commissioned by Bush Administration:
“Projections of increasing temperatures, faster evaporation rates, and more sustained droughts brought on by climate change will only add more stress to overtaxed water sources. . .”

4:00 - 2011 - news reports of the drought, and heat wave - tough maps of USA July 2011

6:00 - actual satellite time lapse of the El Nino/La Nina Pacific Oscillation. {Here's a "Very simple (but good) 'meat and potatoes' explanation of La Nina/El Nino"... once you get past the regrettable first 1:15 min that is.}

6:10 - National Data Center/NESDIS/NOAA - Temperature Anomalies Jan - Jun 2011

6:30 - Lou Dobbs show, talking head predicts “new ice age”

6:35 - 6/27/10 - Joe Bastardi ~ makes forecast. . . {and it’s guys like this you prefer to trust?}

7:55 - Roy Spencer’s data July 2010; February 2011; July 2011

“This series is about our planet and how it works. . ."

What's wrong with that?
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