A debate on the science of global warming

Dr. BFW

3/14/2008 3:46 PM UTC

Was Dr. Ball too busy revising his resume again? I would have enjoyed this more if we didn't have the denialist call in regurgitating talking points that are repeated over and over on the blogs and on youtube.

thetexastimes.com

12/18/2007 12:01 PM UTC

This is a very interesting and enjoyable program! The chat room stuff that was going on during the radio program was absolutely hilarious, too! Some guy kept dropping one-liners about how it was our duty to be poor and starve, to save the earth from CO2! :^D :^D :^D :^D :^D Is the chat room conversation archived along with the recorded radio program? ttyler5 a frequent sciguy commenter http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/

aaron_

12/18/2007 12:33 AM UTC

Where's Dr. Ball?

James Mayeau

12/17/2007 7:21 PM UTC

Thanks for doing this Dr Ball. Thank you Dr Dessler for presenting the challenge. And most of all thank you Eric for bringing it all together.

Jim Pacheco

12/17/2007 6:30 PM UTC

In my work, I deal with fish habitat models. I have 2 questions. 1) A model is basically math and physics attempting to describe the real world. My models are judged to be performing properly if the predicted values are close to acutal measured date. It is my understanding that all the models overpredict current year temperatures based on initial conditions and the co2 loading from a time in a previous decade. Why are these models still used to "prove" the co2-global warming conne

retiredphysicist

12/15/2007 2:38 AM UTC

Predictions of future global warming by CO2 are based entirely upon complex hydrodynamic computer simulations. From the little I know about these simulations, it appears that they have many fundamental weaknesses, in both the numerical gridding and the scientific equations. This raises doubts about the validity of the predictions. Here is a list of some of my concerns. My information may be out of date. I would appreciate your response. 1. Each numerical grid is apparently a few hundred miles i