Comments Marky48 has made

Forcings

"water vapor, etc. are not important." Water vapor is a feedback not a foricing like the aforementioned chemical arrangements, CO2, methane et al. Of course some refuse to believe the difference, since there's mor water than the others, but chemistry isn't subjective.  

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Forum

Spot on David. I saw your piece on CNN yesterday twice. Talking about hair on fire will get coverage every time. I was sitting in Schneider's row in from of the photogs. I couldn't get down front, all VIP whatever that took. No full tape yet anywhere though.

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GW Forum

Good show! I was there today, but why won't the link work to the webcast?

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I Smirk at this:

 Gore "invented"...
>smirks<

This is an urban myth that Gore said he invented the Internet and thus everything else since. He never said that. Wingnuts did. Rinse and repeat. It won't actually make it true. Gore is right on global warming and descerning experts say so.

Gore's Movie. His energy offsets can be checked. Real or not.

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Beetle Kill

Yeah Backcut, PBB are a real problem and fueled by warmer global mean temperatures. The Canadian zone in particular. Where the beetles used to die off in the fall, now they just keep going. Down here though, air pollution weakens the trees, and resident beetles do the rest. I wrote about the San Bernardino for a journalism class at Cal State. The salvage there is unbelievable. So, bad forestry practices including fire suppression couples with years of clearcutting and the resulting increased density of small trees are the gist of the problem. Selective treatment is the cure, but it's almost beyond us at this point.

I'm older than you, and have walked clearcuts for 20 years. My book "Against a Strong Current" outlines the work I've done and the people I've met along the way.

Environment II

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Treehugger ad hom

Gar is correct on the fuels. Our forests are in terrible shape. I worked on the Lassen. There is salvage in the name of the national fire plan with clearcut size exceptions to the 20 acre rule. Link enough of those and it's still the akin to a dog with mange. David because he's saying Gore and his ilk are full of it and wingnuts aren't. Isn't that what Broad was portraying? Isn't he saying global warming is just treehugger BS? Your call.

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CO2 and Forests

Forests are carbon sinks. When you clearcut them they get hotter and release CO2. That's the opposite of what is needed now. I'm a professional watershed surveyor and fish biologist who has worked on 7 national forests and the BLM. I've routinely found old growth trees marked too close to the riparian zone. Anyway you cut it, replacing old growth multiple stage mature forests with a patchwork monoculture tree farm is a bad move for all involved.

Lose the ad hominem otherwise we'll get the idea forestry folks are just dumb rednecks. It makes you look bad. How'd you like that scenic photo I posted at your blog? Nice huh?

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Pielke

Not quite. He just thinks all science is political by nature, but it isn't. Truth is. His mistake is to paint all scientists with the same brush and this was rejected by Chairman Waxman and other legitimate climate scientists, like those at www.realclimate.org where Roger mixes it up regularly. He isn't a climate scientist though so...

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