Is THIS Graph the only one needed to act on Global Warming?
One of the earliest, strongest, and most consistent voices on Climate Change.
Stephen Schneider sounded a strikingly prescient alarm in 1979.
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This is not 1979; it’s from 1989. Look up the “In Search Of” with Leonard
Nimoy here on YouTube. (Episode “The Coming Ice Age.”) The episode is from
1978. Like all bandwagons Schneider couldn’t wait to jump on and get in
front of a camera.
“To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary
scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any
doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between
being effective, and being honest.”–Stephen Schneider, Discover Magazine
Oct, 1989
“… An increase by a factor of 8 in the amount of CO2 (which is highly
unlikely in the next several thousand years), will produce an increase in
the surface temperature of less than 2 deg. K.” Stephen Schnieder, Science
1971.
What happened to you Stephen? Eight years later a mere doubling of CO2 was
to put the whole planet a peril. LOL and RIP
The idiot is no prophet. Google “Jason 1979 Carbon Dioxide.” Not much has changed since this preliminary document. What’s funny is it even mentions the possibilities of negative feedbacks from CO2. More lower clouds you get cooling. More Cirrus positive feedback. Guess what? Peer-reviewed studies are showing negative feedbacks from CO2. It’s over guys; stop panicking. Look at the IPCC latest projections. The low ball is about 1.3C by 2100. Now given every IPCC projection has been off by between 75%-150% (upwards) I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say they’ll on be off by 50% so we’re… Read more »
It is found that, although the addition of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does increase the surface temperature, the rate of temperature increase diminishes with increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. For aerosols, however, the net effect of increase in density is to reduce the surface temperature of Earth. Becuase of the exponential dependence of the backscattering, the rate of temperature decrease is augmented with increasing aerosol content. An increase by only a factor of 4 in global aerosol background concentration may be sufficient to reduce the surface temperature by as much as 3.5 deg.K. If sustained over a period… Read more »
actually its amazing how spot on he was then already.
Prophets sucks!
and your reasoning is?
You’re not bright enough now, nor ever will you be
Was wrong as a young man and still wrong….