UT Professor Debunks Climate Change "Myths"
Between the year-long drought and Gov. Rick Perry campaigning for the presidency, global warming has become a big topic in Texas these days — and the head of the University of Texas Energy Institute, Raymond Orbach, is wading into the debate with a new paper aiming to debunk eight "myths" about climate change.
The paper, "Our Sustainable Earth," appears in the forthcoming issue of Reports on Progress in Physics, a British journal known for encouraging (relatively) simple language from its contributors. In it, Orbach summarizes existing scientific evidence to argue that humans bear responsibility for climate change and an 80 percent ...
Comments (10)
WUSRPH
Can he summarize it down to half of a page in BIG TYPE so Rick and the rest of the GOP candidates can read it (but, unfortunately, still not understand it)?
Judy Shelton Curtis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Then please explain to me why they keep spraying our skies with chemtrails?
Peter Smyth via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Pretty misleading headline.
meme mine
Climate blame has made omen worshipping fools out of all of us. It was our Iraq War of lies and fear mongering and will keep us out of office for decades.
Obama didn't mention it in his state of the union and notice how countless thousands of scientists just sat there and did nothing at being snubbed.
Climate change science was a consultant's wet dream and a tragic exaggeration and this planet lover is sick of the fear mongering. Count me out.
mosesaustin
I read it and am concerned. He says that the warming began around 1880 and is "associated with the industrial revolution." He does not offer any evidence or explanation why this association should be made. But his own chart shows a warming trend as early as 1850. This would be consistent with discussions about the "mini-ice age" which was to have ended around 1850.
I am not a skeptic. I am an agnostic. I wonder what part of the re-education camp my kind will be placed in?
meme mine
Nothing, short of a comet hit is worse than a climate crisis. Nothing is worse and climate crisis is virtually the end of life for us as a species. We can't survive on a planet with unstoppable warming. The science is there and there actually is a lose but valid consensus among scientists and it's been 25 years of warnings from these scientists and they number in the "countless" thousands all over the world. This crisis is the ultimate crisis and so it's up to you as decent civilized human being to take a stand. Is the science being legally exaggerated and exploited? If so, the worst disaster imaginable would be avoided and you wouldn't have to issue CO2 death threats to the kids to make them turn the lights out more often.
There are holes in the science; as for example how do the number of consensus climate change scientists vastly outnumber the climate change protesters, even factoring in the occupy state of affairs. If there really were even a fraction of the "countless thousands" wouldn't they be marching in the streets and acting like it's the worst emergency ever? And why is it that almost all climate change research is into effects, not causes. Why? I'll tell you why. Because the theory assumes human control of climate leaving climate change science the study of "effects" not causes. Every consensus scientist and organization has a unique and personal and special definition of climate change. Gee, can it be any more obvious?
This planet lover is happy and relieved the planet is safe again because any f00l can see that climate change was a consultant's w*t dream of studying the effects of a crisis that refuses to be real.
Marcus Aguilar via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I forget, what did Perry get in chemistry or physics at A&M? I know what he got in Economy. But he got his masters in politician in Austin.
William Leavenworth
I'd sooner try to teach a dog the quadratic theorem than try to teach a fundamentalist about scientific methods. On a flat earth, the truth is plane to see.
Don Wilson
Someone please tell the perfesser that the cold place at the tippy top of the earth is spelled "Arctic".
Marc Airhart
To see the original Climate Myths article from UT Austin that Dr. Orbach refers to, visit: http://www.utexas.edu/know/2010/11/08/climate_myths/