<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>My grandfather used to take the temperature readings for Unionville Missouri.</span></div><div><span>His data point represented the ground data for a few hundred square miles</span></div><div><span>even though the temperature over that much area can vary several degrees or</span></div><div><span>even as much as ten degrees when a storm front is moving through. His house</span></div><div><span>was located on a high spot next to a state highway. Shade trees came and went,</span></div><div><span>the nearby garden varied over the years, houses nearby were torn down and </span></div><div><span>replaced, a restaurant was located across </span><span>the street, and traffic increased several </span></div><div><span>hundred percent over the years. Since he was on a high spot he didn't
record</span></div><div><span>the low areas in the hills nearby that are often 5 degrees colder in the mornings.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>His data was still better than much of what was collected in heat island</span></div><div><span>cities or when the actual collection spots representing thousands of square</span></div><div><span>miles have been moved. Never mind those located next to roof AC units,</span></div><div><span>black tar roofs, exhaust vents, and any number of problem spots.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Ocean temperature data has just begun - yet the oceans hold huge amounts</span></div><div><span>of heat readily changed out with the atmosphere.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>All of this is besides the point that the modeling is no where near sufficient</span></div><div><span>to make any of the ever changing claims made to date. Every year or
so</span></div><div><span>another huge variable is discovered to have been modeled inadequately,</span></div><div><span>not at all, or in reverse of its actual effect.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Political science - the APS should retract its statement and wait for the</span></div><div><span>science - which is only now beginning and has a long ways to go before</span></div><div><span>making predictions.<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Dennis</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> spike <spike66@att.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:06 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change<br></font><br><div id="yiv36123961"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="yiv36123961WordSection1"><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change</span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">>…</span>Ah, I stand corrected as to their
claim. Thanks.</div><div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">>>…</span>2011/9/15 Tim Halterman <<a href="mailto:timhalterman@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:timhalterman@gmail.com">timhalterman@gmail.com</a>></div><div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal">APS provided some additional commentary on this policy in mid 2010. You can read the full policy and the additional commentary here:<br><a href="http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm</a><br><br><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I find encouraging the way climate science seems to be heading. This comment is from the APS site:</span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span
style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;' lang="EN">“…The second sentence is a definition that should explicitly include water vapor. The second sentence is a definition that should explicitly include water vapor…”</span><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div></div></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>It seemed to me a huge oversight in the past climate science that they didn’t really say much about the greenhouse effect of water vapor. Perhaps I was tuned into that because of where I lived in my 20s: in the Mojave Desert. Out there, most people didn’t have air conditioners: they were too expensive to operate and they would be overpowered by the ferocious desert heat. The common form
of house cooling was with evaporative coolers, also called swamp coolers. On the hottest days, it was also bone dry, so the evaporative coolers worked great.</span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Over the decades, more residents moved into the area and had lawns. I recall hearing the old timers note that swamp coolers were not working as well as they once did. I also knew that if a neighbor turned on a sprinkler in the middle of the day, one’s swamp cooler would lose a degree or two delta. I used to keep data on this kind of stuff for a side business: emergency swamp cooler repair and high performance swamp coolers.</span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125);
font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>It stands to reason to me that increased irrigation could result in slight increases in water vapor in the air, which would trap additional heat. Most of us have been in out on a cool clear evening when a cloud cover rolled in and felt the temperature rise as the cloud trapped radiated heat. We know the effect can be localized. It is easy to imagine some of the historic temperature monitors being effected by nearby irrigation.</span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv36123961MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size:
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