In the face of Zwally's analysis, defenders of
the CO2 warming meme retreated to stressing uncontested observations of lost ice due to dynamic glacier thinning or uncritically accepting speculative models of catastrophic deglaciation.
Not exact matches
«Arctic Amplification» form
CO2 was not primarily from the (theorectical) loss - of - ice / increase in albedo
meme so often used, but ratehr it began from the relative amounts of GHG's in the
warmer, more water - vapor laden equatorial climates to the very dry Arctic regions.
These operate as «
meme» s. For example (where «- >» = «means»): Sustainability - > Climate Change - > Global
Warming - > Anthropogenic Global
Warming - > Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global
Warming - >
CO2 - > Fossil Fuels - > Bad Energy I wonder: why it has always been
CO2 that needs to be controlled?
Such claims include the
meme that rising global
CO2 has caused accelerating, rapid US
warming; that droughts are destroying all of our food crops; that more frequent and stronger weather disasters from
warmer temperatures are wreaking untold harm; that global
warming will shorten / threaten US life spans; that ever expanding wildfires are consuming our forests; and etc., etc., etc..
You are dismissive of CAGW, and so you assume it is a
meme, just as the CAGW advocates assume that
CO2 is causing catastrophic
warming.
Crispin, I suppose you have heard of the approxiamately 800 year lag of the
CO2 rise following
warming meme?
However, a rate of change of global temperature of nearly zero for 15 years may be the most significant point to make in opposition to the
meme that all the global
warming is due to
CO2 release to the atmosphere.