ClimateSanity by Tom Moriarty
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The views expressed in this blog are the personal views of Tom Moriarty.
Tom Moriarty is a Senior Scientist at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He has extensive experience in testing photovoltaic devices of all varieties, from basic silicon to the highest efficiency multi-junction devices and newly emerging organic technologies.
He has a masters degree in Physics and previous experience in two other national laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Additionally, he worked for several years in the Gates Rubber Company Advanced Materials Analysis Lab in Denver, Colorado.
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A wonderful blog! Very good content!
(Since i didn’t find an e-mail address let me here give a blog design “advise”: I think it would be nice if you show many posts at a time on the homepage and in the archive view.)
Tom, I followed your link from a comment posted in AWG netherland….thanks for being a sane skeptic. I got in 2 bits right behind you.
Cheers
Thanks for your comment Tom. I really like your blog and have already created a link for it on my site. I am glad that some one has decided to take on Al Gore and present a different argument. The more we know about the environment the better we can help it… that is it it needs help at all.
Tom
Good blog, good work you are doing. My ideas are not about hysteria, but about planning ahead, whether things get hot or cold……shouldn’t we be prepared?
Danny
Here is a news item you might find funny, or it might make you angry. But it’s a wake up call for those who are still sleepwalking, and who knows, things might get hot or cold. you are right. But let’s plan for the future, no?…
POLAR CITIES BLUEPRINTS:
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com
DANNY
Hi Tom. Great site.
I’ve heard that cutting down a single tree can make as big a change to the microclimate for a hundred yards around it as the climate change warming we’ve experienced.
A physicist of my aquaintance has rubbished this on the grounds that transpiration couldn’t have that much cooling effect and shade doesn’t come into the equation according to him.
As this would appear to come within your sphere of expertise, what are your thoughts on this?
Great to have discovered your blog, Tom. I usually inhabit Climate Audit, and contribute there, mainly on the topic of abrupt climate change, which is my particular interest. Currently trying to find the /data/ not the plot, for sea ice areas for as long a period as possible. I once found some but now lack up-to-date information. Does anyone here have an appropriate link, please?
Robin
Dear ClimateSanity Readers,
I have created a new page, called “Off Topic.” This page will be used to transfer interesting, but off-topic comments to a different location for further discussion.
Click here for Off-Topic.
I have transferred a series of comments and replies between Colono and myself to Off-Topic and encourage interested readers to check there for new comments.
Best Regards,
Tom
ClimateSanity
Tom, Your logic is wonderful to read. Bless you for taking this on. I want to look at the larger picture.
This climate change hysteria has reached the level of Jones Towwn ideology. I was an undergraduate at Harvard in the Geology Department when the concept of anthropogenic climate change was advanced by the political science students who had to take Steven Goulds Nat Sci. 10. Steven did a great section on glaciology. We ran them all around in vans looking at the scratches in the ledges and glacial features. They got “gentlement c’s.” AND THEY WERE PRACTICING THEIR ACTIVISM WHILE BURNING DOWN THE ROTC BUILDING.
Do you ever wonder why all of the data in the world is simply ignored as if it doesn’t exist? We tried a scientfic based criticism of the concept in the 1970’s, we could chase them into the dorms, but one on one when they had to concede that it was not true they finally used what I call the “Thermistoclese justification”. Ie ” big political misrepresentation to get the population to “do the right thing” It started as “just take care of the environment.” Now I think it has evolved like slowly boiling the frog to “drinking the Cool-Aid together.”
The process of protecting this ideology to the extreme so it doesn’t unravel is why Gore made the movie, the devistation to our economy and quality of life is close to unrepairable. He got a Nobel Prize!!! The ideolofgy has been used to justify the stupidest most destructive policies. The justification is simply an Ad Hominem attack.
There is a similarity of suicidal mind set across the whole political spectrum. Whether it is energy policy, fisheries, or the manipulation of the finalcial markets, policies grounded in falicies result in make believe decisons with real world consequences.
I appreciate your concise objection to Al Gores “Inconvienient Truth”. To the few it is a reinforcement. But to the indoctrinated your points fall on deaf ears. What has to happen is a wake up call to understand the psycology of why they are doing this to our civilization and turn the ideology around learn from it before it is too late.
That is the challenge. I don’t know if we are up to it because we are wired to think in terms of SCIENCE.
Cheers! Phin Sprague
[...] Oh, by the way, thanks for inventing solar PV, I guess without you I wouldn’t have a job. [...]
Damn!! Was just put onto this blog by Watts. Looks good. Something else that I have to read daily. Damn!!
You are welcome to repost the article below as long as you post it entirely and without edits. Also, you must credit the author and include the folowing link:
http://gregoryfegel.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/10/how-an-ice-age-begins.htm
“How an Ice Age Begins”
– Gregory F. Fegel
test??
Ah, works now…
Enjoyable blog posts, like the ice sheet satire!
“Moriarty” must have an Irish connection – at least with the humour
In my view, whether or not CO2 emissions are relevant, electricity and transport sectors should be made more efficient and competitive (which also happens to lower 4/5 of all current CO2 emissions, but also for all else the emissions contain).
Energy efficiency regulations, like bans on light bulbs, are unjustified and unnecessary,
as explained on Ceolas.Net
Hi,
I love the website and would like to use some of your material on our site. Is this OK?
Mike,
Yes, it is OK.
Best Regards,
Tom