Jeb:
I am not a “coal industry lobbyist”. I get nothing from any coal industry.
Anyway, how would it change the facts I stated if I were “a coal industry lobbyist”. Is a NASA or NOAA employee a US government lobbyist?
The attempt to smear me shows how little you trust your dispute of my statements.
And my statements are correct. For example, it is not “disingenuous” to choose 1998 as the year when the last period of warming stopped. It is simply a fact that 1998 was the year when the warming stopped. You may not like the fact, but that does not alter the truth of it. Perhaps you object to my saying this because you find it to be an inconvenient truth.
And I was discussing the period since the warming stopped. I said nobody knows if the warming will resume, and I stated a series of questions that any scientist would want answered in response to the fact that global warming stopped in 1998.
Of course, if all I was doing was saying, “There is not much warming” then I could have picked 1941. Since 1941 there was ooling, then warming, then cooling with the result that present global temperature is very similar to what it was in 1941. But I was discussing the fact that global warming has stopped and I started at 1998 because that is when it stopped.
And it is not “nonsense” to state that the sulphate aerosol excuse for the cooling from 1940 to 1970 “does not stand up”. I stated why it “does not stand up”, and I cited the reference. Another study published only last month says the same. Sadly, it is ‘par for the course that AGW-advocates call the science “nonsense” because it does not fit their case.
The remainder of your posting is similar to the mouthings of Boris (perhaps you are Boris), and I will not waste more time refuting such drivel.
Richard
