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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 13-Jul-2009 At 10:46:23 AM evanbb

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On 10/07/2009 R James wrote:
>1. The whole basis of this is global temperature change.
Okay, so you plot some readily available data, and yet somehow you conclude the opposite to the major scientific bodies of the world. You assume you're right.

Can you start with a definition of how you determine what constitutes Global Temperature? Average? What time of day do you take the measurements? What's the error in your plots? If a site reports range of 40-10 instead of 35-15 is that okay? Will every site in the world increase? Or does an increase in one place affect the temperature somewhere else, by changing flow patterns? If half the sites in the world show a 5deg increase and the other half show a 5 deg decrease is that okay?

>2. One of the predicted consequences of global warming is catastrophic
>sea level rise.
You've answered your own question here. PREDICTED consequence. It hasn't necessarily happened yet, but will if temperatures continue to rise. Also, check out what's going on with coastal properties at Byron Bay at the moment. Just because it's only risen 8mm in an enormous protected harbour, doesn't mean there aren't larger changes going on in other places. Will the changes in tide range be uniform absolutely, or will they increase the range by a % of the normal tide change? Will it only be an 8mm change on the north west shelf with thei 18m tide changes?

My point is that you DO have to be a climate scientist to comment on this sort of stuff. I bet you can't answer with any certainty the questions I've raised. Nor can I. I don't pretend to either.