how much of that blue area is caused by air conditioning salesman like you fraudcurrents. The new york times tells us you air conditioning sellers are going to responsible for 25% of the man made green house gas problem. That makes you a climate terrorist. with your belief system how how the hell can you live with yourself. Who the hell are you to call us names? Its like your are an anti- abortion protestor on weekends and an abortion nurse during the week.
So I guess this means that you don't know why stratospheric temps are going down. Big surprise there. LOL
as if you know fraundcurrents. scientists speculate about the mechanism... but they do not really know. Perhaps the best speculation is that the stratosphere is cooling because Ozone levels are improving... thanks to us putting the kibosh on you air condition sales people. Unfortunately, climate terrorist air conditioning guys replaced your old gas with a new gas 2000 times more powerful than co2. Another is that at this stage adding more co2 is causing cooling because co2 becomes logarithmically less warming in the lower atmosphere... but in the upper atmosphere it is causing cooling because it is returning more and more of the suns rays back into space.
Nope, try again. Why do you pretend to know the science when it's obvious that you don't? No surprise really. Religious right wing nut jobs are repelled by science.
When you try it will be with some Al Gore sponsored garbage from skeptical science or a similar site. Why do you pretend there is settled science in areas that science has very incomplete knowledge? At least my speculation is cool. (unfortunately) - pun intended. ( I realize that for those who have the ability to apply science to systems... the obvious argument would be if that co2 were responsible it would not be cooling in the upper atmosphere but warming because capturing and emitting energy causes warming. However my analysis is guessing that in a dynamic system at some point co2 starts to form a cooling shield.)
It is interesting that jem shows up with post after post outlining science... and the best futurecurrents can do is post nonsense like this. BTW the majority of citizens in the U.S. with science and engineering degrees are registered Republicans.
Loyek, I certainly don't want to accuse you of being brilliant, but yes, THAT is the important, immediate question, because we are about to spend billions doing things that it appears will have no measurable effect. So why are we doing these things, before we have answered "the question"? Ultimately it would be nice to know if the Earth, on average, is warming or cooling, how the warming or cooling is distributed, and certainly what are the important driving forces. But for now, we might save ourselves a lot of expense and embarrassment if we answered the question of whether increasing CO2 is causing warming, before jumping off the cliff we are, like a gaggle of mindless lemmings, heading for. It seems to me the question has already been answered definitively. There are, however, those still claiming that slightly elevated CO2, on a nominal basis, not a misleading relative basis, is causing warming. The burden should be on them to explain how it is that their claim can be true in the face of the many observations contradicting it. It is not an explanation to assert that the experienced and well trained scientists who are questioning the role of CO2, based on hard facts, are a bunch of lunatics.
Wow. Now you don't even know that the earth is warming? Holy shit. Just what is your major malfunction/ I think you are just trolling.
Jerm, the stratosphere is cooling because the increasing greenhouse effect is retaining heat in the troposphere preventing it's release into the stratosphere. Thus it is additional proof of the increasing greenhouse effect.