Re: [Phys-l] Global Warming

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>]

Before I go to your URL, Jim, does it include research papers reported 
witthin the past year?

Since it is a logical impossibility ever to "prove" a causal relationship 
of any kind, your reservations are meaningless.

In connection with your "problem",  please tell mee what current research
I am missing.  Just cite 1 or 2 papers reporting original research results 
(no opinions or reviews) from peer-reviewed journals.  The Greenland ice 
core results were reported in Nature, within about the past year (I'm way 
behind in my reading).

As every lawyer knows, it is always possible to make an argument on any 
side of any proposition.  As many physicist knows, not all such arguments 
are credible.
					Regards,
						Jack



On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, JMGreen wrote:

> At 08:33 PM 6/12/2006, you wrote:
> >         My problem, Jim, is that you seem to avoid, totally, current
> > research on the subject.  The Greenland ice cores were just reported in
> > the past few months,
> >         Also, the arguments need to be quantitative and in context.  The
> > current warming trend is accompanied by increases in greenhouse gases.
>
> Jack, did you read the URL that I gave?  I thought not.
>
> I twice tried to reproduce here the figure referenced there, but I
> don't know how I guess.  The data shows repeated global warming and
> glaciations which follow those warmings.  I don't doubt that we are
> currently experiencing another warming period.  I still wonder what
> its cause is.  I think that there is evidence that the cause is
> natural, but I don't fully understand the explanations. But if the
> data given there is correct, we are on the verge of another
> glaciation.  I can see that the current warming is _accompanied_ by
> an increase in greenhouse gasses, but there doesn't seem to be proof
> of the _cause_ of the warming.  Just as there doesn't seem to be a
> convincing proof of the cause of previous global warmings -- which
> clearly were not due to greenhouse gasses -- at least not greenhouse
> gasses produced by humans.
>
> My problem, Jack, is that you seem to avoid, totally, current
> research on the subject.
>
> Jim
>
>
> J M Green
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