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More on evans and ice-ore CO2 lags
I repeat my comments from:
http://www.desmogblog.com/who-is-rocket-scientist-david-evans
See:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
This is a compendium of favorite, long-debunked arguments that get used over and over. For each argument there is a page that:
- explains the argument
- explains why it's wrong
- gives references to peer-reviewed articles in credible journals
- gives examples of people using the argument
Hence, it is a nice reference, as opposed to an immediate specific response, but it doesn't get updated quite so often, and it doesn't every *every* new argument ... although most dumb arguments get repeated endlessly, even if the science was known 20 years ago.
In 5 minutes there, I found most of Evans' comments covered:
#32 empirical
#30 troposphere
#19 uhi
#10 co2lag
See especially #10: a *famous* 1990 paper by Lorius, et al predicted exactly this effect, which has been repeatedly confirmed by the ice-cores. Evans just doesn't seem to (or want to) understand well-known science....