Tim Curtin is a economist who lives in Canberra. Below is a comment he posted on the article “Is Kevin Rudd another James Hansen Disciple“:
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Good stuff, Agmates.
Here are some comments of my own on Barry Brook (banned of course from his Blog bravenewclimate), what is he scared of?
Brook has been reported by the media endorsing the so-called Global Carbon project, which is yet another largely CSIRO-inspired ramp, led by James Hansen’s friends, the notorious data manipulators Pep Canadell and Mike Raupach.
Their cheer leader, Barry Brook’s [ pictured below] puff ends by citing GCP’s claim that:
“Emissions from the combustion of fossil fuel and land use change reached the mark of 10 billion tonnes of carbon [GtC] in 2007.
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Natural CO2 sinks are growing, but more slowly than atmospheric CO2, which has been growing at 2 ppm per year since 2000″.
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Let’s analyse this more closely.
Brook chose not to explain that 2ppm equate to 4.25 GtC (i.e. 2.12 GTC = 1 ppm). So what we had in 2007, on the Brook/GCP data, is 10 GtC of emissions, and 4.25 GtC of atmospheric increase, leaving no less than 5.75 GtC (57.5%) taken up by the “slow growing” natural sinks, above the average of 56% since 1958.
But then as a mere economist whom am I to query the accounting techniques of Nobel [Peace] Prize winners like Canadell, who thinks that the rise in atmospheric CO2 since 1958, from 315 ppm to 384 ppm at end-2007, reveals an annual growth rate of 1.89 % pa. (this fictitious rate is what underpins the Garnaut Draft Report).
Finally, Brook assures us that
“450ppm CO2 commits us to >2 degrees C global warming and all the disastrous consequences this sets in train”.
Whatever happened to CO2e, which as Garnaut states, is already at 455 ppm?
These disastrous consequences should already be apparent. Perhaps the meltdown on Wall Street is caused by CO2e emissions?
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Interesting that Barry Brook has blocked Tim Curtin from commenting on his blog. Then again not surprising as the Hansen lead Climate Alarmist avoid any kind of professional academic scrutiny of their outrageous claims. Two words – Hockey Stick.
(thanks to Tim for his input)
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