Re: [Phys-l] Solving American ______________

[Chuck Britton <cvbritton@embarqmail.com>]

I hope to get to see Glacier National Park before the the glaciers are gone.
	(Or is all this melting stuff just political hoopla??)

At 9:41 PM -0800 11/9/10, John Mallinckrodt wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 7:41 PM, marx@phy.ilstu.edu wrote:
>
> >  ... if people were shown the evidence for global warming and not 
> > just told to accept it because lots of scientists
> >  claim its happening, then people might be persuaded.
>
> Right.  Why is it that climate scientists absolutely refuse to 
> reveal the evidence (about current and historic CO2 levels, about 
> the temperature record, about the infrared absorption bands of H20, 
> CO2,and methane, about satellite observations of reduced upward 
> radiation in those bands, about arctic ice coverage, about positive 
> CO2 feedback mechanisms from thawing permafrost, about the effects 
> of increasing albedo, etc.) with the rest of us?  Why is it that we 
> are told to just shut up and accept it?  Really makes you wonder 
> about motives, doesn't it?
>
> John Mallinckrodt
> Cal Poly Pomona