Joe Bastardi is a true student of meteorology. He has studied the history of weather and has identified cycles that occur over and over. He uses this knowledge to help him make accurate forecasts for the people who pay him for his forecasts. This is a book full of facts about weather and climate, which will inform and explain why the theory of Catastrophic Anthropological Global Warming (CAGW) is not settled science.
Bastardi approaches the problem of climate warming with an open mind, but skepticism about the idea of settled science as presented by Al Gore and others who believe man and CO2 are causing climate warming.
He points out the many ways in which the climate variation is not connected to CO2 and how weak the evidence is for CO2 as the main driver of warming. CO2 is a trace gas that is essential to the thriving of plant life on Earth. It comprises such a small part of the atmosphere (400 parts per million) that it is impossible to show mathematically that it can have any appreciable warming effect on the Earth. A little known truth is that most climate scientists know this and have looked for other causes of the warming that has occurred since the 1880s. The IPCC scientists who accuse CO2 of being the main driver of climate warming, also recognize that CO2 in such small concentrations cannot cause the warming observed to date. When they construct their climate models they use estimated values for "forcings." (Factors that increase CO2's effects.) What are forcings? Water vapor, methane, and aerosols are the culprits they have identified. Since there are no uniform ways to measure the amount of water vapor and aerosols (They both vary widely from place to place, season to season, and year to year.), their amounts and effects have to be approximated in the climate models. Which possibly explains to why the models have been so inaccurate to date.
Bastardi shows other factors that are driving climate change such as the Pacific and Atlantic temperature shifts. Both of which are well observed by meteorologists, but the causes are still not known for certain. Sun spot activity is also examined and is shown to be a possible factor in climate warming/cooling. Long term climate history with cycles of warming and cooling that have occurred in the past are also examined. At any rate, Bastardi has an open mind and is ready to change his mind about CO2 when better evidence is provided.
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¿Es el factor principal en el cambio climático antropogénico?
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Fantastic insight into the alarmist conspiracy.
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