The feeble defence today (BBC Radio4*) of the failed science of Man-made climate change by Lord Martin Rees President of the Royal Society is a “dereliction of his duty to defend the integrity of science and a surrender to the politically driven agenda of the UN which is mounting a ‘Custer’s last stand’ review of IPCC procedures in a desperate bid to save its credibility”, said Piers Corbyn astrophysicist and founder of WeatherAction long range weather and climate forecasters.
Piers (speaking on his birthday March 10th) further said: “Martin Rees is a great scientist but his support today of failed science over evidence-based factual observations is a betrayal of the scientific method in favour of anti-scientific dogma. One wonders at what point should political expediency ever over-rule evidence-based science?”
“His defence of the refuted** theory of man-made climate change on the grounds that ‘CO2 has been rising recently at an unprecedented rate and very simple physics’ is without foundation.
“Firstly the claim that current rates of rise of CO2 are unprecedented is neither relevant nor justifiable
Recognized published peer-reviewed work shows:
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(i) measured data over hundreds, or thousands, or millions of years proves CO2 changes have no nett driving effect on world temperature or climate, indeed the relationship is observed to be the other way around – for example at the end of ice-ages temperature rises drive CO2 rises with a lag of centuries.
This means that current changes of CO2 are also of no consequence. This is demonstrated by world cooling for the last 8 years while CO2 has been rapidly rising.
(ii) ice core data smooths out rapid fluctuations in CO2 levels which occurred in the past and other methods of measuring CO2 in more recent times show rapid changes**.
The claim of unprecedented rises in something of no consequence is scaremongering nonsense.
“Secondly the ‘very simple physics’ he claims to draw on is just too simple and leaves out other pretty simple physics.
The supposed large magnifying effect of water vapour which is a more significant contributor to infra-red absorption and emission than the trace gas CO2 has been widely challenged along with other assumptions of the CO2 centred theory. More fundamentally wherever those considerations lead a number of feedback effects totally negate any impact CO2 changes may have on surface temperatures. For example extra CO2 enhances plant growth and photosynthetic transpiration which is a powerful cooling effect and the more CO2 the more the cooling. So any extra surface warming due to extra CO2 in the atmosphere is negated by extra cooling caused by extra photosynthetic transpiration. Warming also enhances plant growth so if at one point there were insufficient plants to do the cooling and therefore warming occurred that would enhance plant growth and extend the growing season until there are sufficient plants to provide cooling to negate any warming.
“Martin Rees and the IPCC should be prepared to defend their CO2-driven climate change position but they have still failed to produce any observational evidence for their hypothesis and the BBC consistently avoids allowing any air time to Climate Realist scientists who can easily refute the CO2 hypothesis. Nevertheless I am glad Martin Ress did not repeat the banal claims of Professor Corine Le Quere of the University of East Anglia that ‘There is no other explanation for it (= recent(?) Climate change)’ (see WANewsNo13 link below). Perhaps he realizes that our WeatherAction verification of predicted chains of events leading from solar activity to extreme weather events is evidence that the Sun causes ‘it’. [See WANewsNo8*** link below for reports and video movies of: solar flares=> ionospheric disturbances & geomagnetic activity => changes in polar circulation and the jet stream => extreme weather events]
* Lord Martin Rees on BBC Radio 4 10th March audio -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8559000/8559209.stm
**See Refutations of CO2 warming hypothesis listed in WanewsNo13 =
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=5299&linkbox=true&position=3
*** Reports & web movie of predicted sun-earth-weather chain of events WANewsNo8 =
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=4968
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The subject line of my email to over 200 UK science professors in January 2010 which included a trilogy of web hosted articles covering the Royal Society past and present history. To readers unfamiliar with this 350 year old founding institution of science these articles are very important.
"Nullius In Verba" is the society motto meaning 'take no man's word for it' and my article with that name now ranks higher on google hits than the society. My article "East Anglia Event Horizon" is unique and now has over 4,000 web/blog hostings. The third article "Overcoming Climate Inertia" is the summary in the series.
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Lord Martin Rees has made an effective effort to avoid contact. The only indirect method is contact is by email to....'masters.secretary (at) trin.cam.ac.uk'....and it is time for respectfull reminders of the Royal Society's original motives and methods. Science has been the single greatest force in the evolution of civilization. Let us restore science to it's proper place.