Book Report for School Blog

TWW is sure you know the federal government has spent millions paying climate scientists to build complicated computer models running on high-priced supercomputers resulting in information common people are too ignorant to understand so we just are supposed to take the Al Gores of the world at their word that the science is all settled and we need to do as they tell us especially when they tell us we need to spend more tax dollars on research on a subject they say is all settled.  But did you know one climate scientist the Al Gores of the world call a ‘denier’ built a  computer model on his desktop computer that does a reasonable job of explaining warming at a fraction of the price of all the others? Remember the peasant boy on the side of the road who said “the emperor is not wearing any clothes”?  Is history repeating itself or will this one scientist only be a footnote when the climate change chapter in the history of science is written? The guy’s name is Roy Spencer and his new book is The Great Global Warming Blunder.  Here is a brief review of what is in the book. 


You should know Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who works with temperature data measured by satellite sensors. There is only about a decade’s worth of good data so that limits his access to nature and may influence how he sees things but the data is probably better than measuring tree rings or ice cores. Only time will tell.


Spencer says his analysis of satellite temperatures tells him the climate is relatively insensitive to warming influences and more clouds form because of warming and they reflect  more energy back into space than the warming alarmists will tell you. The alarmists say the earth is fragile and sensitive because warming gets amplified (the positive feedback you hear about in the pricey computer models). 


Spencer uses a great analogy in his book.  Warming is like what you experience  when you sit in a car parked in the sun with the windows open part of the way. The car warms up (a forcing in climate lingo).  When you open the car windows to cool off  you are negative feedback  personified and the car cools down.  The climate alarmists think the earth would roll the windows up instead so the car gets even warmer (positive feedback in climate lingo).  You should remember there may not be some intelligent force rolling the window up or down. It just happens in nature. 


Positive feedback to the alarmists means a warming influence creates skies with fewer clouds (positive feedback).  Spencer thinks the alarmists have it backwards.  He thinks natural mechanisms can create warming by making fewer clouds.  He says the alarmists have mixed up cause and effect.  (This is not the first time this has happened in science by the way.)  Spencer thinks about 75% of the warming in the last century comes from the way the Pacific Ocean stores and releases energy which in turn creates or does not create more clouds. The other 25% comes from other both natural and human causes like burning fossil fuels.

If you want more details on what this guy is up to see: http://www.drroyspencer.com/