{"id":19013,"date":"2016-03-18T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19013"},"modified":"2016-03-18T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:41:03","slug":"can-geology-tell-us-what-is-warming-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19013","title":{"rendered":"Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/can-geology-tell-us-what-is-warming-the-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">On Monday this week, and rather late in the day,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spri.cam.ac.uk\/people\/summerhayes\/\" target=\"blank\">Dr Colin Summerhayes<\/a>\u00a0from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/global-warming-and-the-irrelevance-of-science\/#comment-16767\" target=\"blank\">this lengthy comment<\/a>\u00a0at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen\u2019s post called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/global-warming-and-the-irrelevance-of-science\/\" target=\"blank\">Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science<\/a>. I wanted to respond to some of the points raised but did not want to do this at the end of an old comment thread, and so asked if I may publish the comment as a guest submission. Dr Summerhayes responded by expanding on the comment and submitting the Opinion Piece that is published below.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Here are some of the highlights from Dr Summerhayes\u2019 CV:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 2010: Emeritus Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute<\/li>\n<li>January 1 2004 part time, and full time from April 1 2004- April 9\u00a02010: Executive Director, International Council for Science\u2019s Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)<\/li>\n<li>1997-2004: Director Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Project Office; UNESCO\u2019s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Paris<\/li>\n<li>1995-1997: Southampton Oceanography Centre; Deputy Director, and Head of Seafloor Processes Division.<\/li>\n<li>1988-1995: Director, Natural Environmental Research Council\u2019s Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, Wormley, Surrey.<\/li>\n<li>1982-1988: BP Research Centre. (A) 1982-1985: Research Associate; (B)\u00a01985-88: Senior Research Associate and Manager, Stratigraphy Branch.<\/li>\n<li>1976-1982: Research Associate and Project Leader; Petroleum Geochemistry Branch, Exxon Production Research Co, Houston, Texas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comments will be strictly moderated. Additional commenting guidelines are given at the end of the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Despite the world\u2019s politicians finally agreeing, in Paris in December 2015, on what to do about global warming, many scientists still reject the evidence for it being caused by humans, or question\u00a0that it is a significant problem.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Dr Lindzen (2016) agrees that although carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas, which absorbs and re-emits infrared radiation from the Earth\u2019s surface, the increase in its concentration in the atmosphere is not important because its climate sensitivity (the amount by which temperature will rise for a doubling of CO2) is low.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate? On Monday this week, and rather late in the day,\u00a0Dr Colin Summerhayes\u00a0from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left\u00a0this lengthy comment\u00a0at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen\u2019s post called\u00a0Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science. I wanted to respond to some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3193,113,141,1004,13024,11260,11842,4548,369,386,705],"class_list":["post-19013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-colin-summerhayes","tag-energy-matters","tag-euan-mearns","tag-geology","tag-global-warming","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19014,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/revisions\/19014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}