Of course, neither 'believers' nor sceptics have ever denied that climate
change is happening; that part of the debate is only about the rate of
change, and the degree to which man's carbon dioxide emissions (a mere 3-4%
of the annual total) have and are affecting it - or even if man's
contribution is affecting it significantly at all. The predominant drum-beat
message that man's carbon dioxide emissions are causing temperatures to rise
at an alarming rate (global temperatures have been flat-lining for the last
18 years, but that's merely 'a pause' according to the alarmists) are not
supported by recent research. The true picture seems to be that temperatures
have shown a steady but very slow rise since the end of the last Ice Age,
though with short periods of more rapid rises and falls, and there is no
cause for alarm. Coincidentally, in the Telegraph this week Booker has an
article on the scandalous manipulation of surface temperatures that has been
going on for decades, a subject carefully ignored by most of the mass media.
For those inclined, the piece is here -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11367272/Climategate-the-sequel-How-we-are-STILL-being-tricked-with-flawed-data-on-global-warming.html
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian May
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:47 PM
To: Laurie Knight
Cc: Birding Aus
Subject: Climate change does not bode well for picky
eaters
Believers in what? Looks like "60 minutes" is now the authority for
peer reviewed "Climate Change" science.
Laurie Knight wrote:
Yes Ian, believers in what?
Even the United States Republican Party accepts that climate change is
happening. Last week the US Senate voted 98-1 that "It is the sense of the
Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax."
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-senate-climate-hoax-20150121-story.html
Regards, Laurie.
On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:59 am, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
The believers? What? The Monkees fan club?
Carl Clifford
On 23 Jan 2015, at 9:10 am, Ian May <> wrote:
H
Hello Laurie
Not wanting to upset "the believers", I cannot help but wonder if these
researchers ever considered that a decline of Antarctic Krill could be
caused by the exponential increase of Cetaceans that has occurred over
the past two decades. Is it true that a current population estimate of
just one species, the humpback whale has now reached 80,000 individuals?
About five years ago, the population estimate at that time had increased
to 35,000 animals? See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans#Global_Population_Estimates
or http://whaleone.com.au/whale-facts/
As a part time researcher from a time nearing the end of the commercial
whaling era when it was rare to sight a large whale in Australian waters,
I occasionally pondered the effects on the pelagic world from competition
on the basic marine food source impacted by the presence or absence of
Cetaceans. My conclusion was that you cannot have your krill and eat it
too.
regards
Ian May
PO Box 110
St Helens, 7216
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Laurie Knight wrote:
The following study contrasts the fortunes of Chinstrap and Gentoo
Penguins
see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150120121304.htm
Original study: MJ Polito, WZ Trivelpiece, WP Patterson, NJ Karnovsky,
CS Reiss, SD Emslie. Contrasting specialist and generalist patterns
facilitate foraging niche partitioning in sympatric populations of
Pygoscelis penguins. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2015; 519: 221 DOI:
10.3354/meps11095
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