Podcaster: Fraser Cain and Dr Pamela Gay
Title: Astronomy Cast eps 308 : Climate Change
Organization: Astronomy Cast – http://www.astronomycast.com
Link : This episode has been streamed live on http://youtu.be/xkucB-cLkfk
Description: When it comes to carbon dioxide, just a little goes a long way to warming the planet. Unfortunately, we’ve been dumping vast amounts into the atmosphere, recently passing 400 parts per million. Let’s look at the science of the greenhouse effect, and how it’s impacting our global climate.
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today and Dr. Pamela Gay is a professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. They team up to do Astronomy Cast, a weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.
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Why haven’t global temperatures increased during the last 15 years? Are there maybe comlicated huge negative feedbacks that dwarfs the very minute physical effect of CO2 itself? Or how do you explain the notorious failure of the IPCC scenarios during the last few decades?
This huuuge discrepancy between theory and observation certainly requires a new brave rethinking of the climate models from the bottom up. Great new science can be learned by exchanging the IPCC climate models against theories which have the benefit of actually working.
I’d bet that the Sun is more of a player than the IPCC models assumed, that could be an explenation of their utter failure. Maybe our climate is much more astronomical than antropogenic?