| Re: Climate scientists: it's time for 'Plan B'
Red herring. the fundemental question is "where's the heat going" because we know that it's being caused on the basis of fundamental science. If we're were wrong about the machanism of global warming we would also be wrong about atoms, electricity and radiation: and if we were wrong about them we wouldn't be able to build a car, a radio or an atomic bomb.
The precise effect of that extra heat in any particular year in any particular area of the globe may be imprecisely known - but the fundamental principle that more CO2 means more thermal energy being retained in the atmosphere is not a matter for debate any more than gravity or the shape of the planet. So if you want to argue that it doesn't matter, that the heat will have no effect on life on the planet, you have to come up with some mechanism to explain where it's going. Energy can't just disappear. |