Comments on: Nationalwide Ban on New Coal Power Plants Without CO2 Controls Proposed http://northbynwa.com/2008/03/23/nationalwide-ban-on-new-coal-power-plants-without-co2-controls-proposed/ the blog Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Simon Forsyth http://northbynwa.com/2008/03/23/nationalwide-ban-on-new-coal-power-plants-without-co2-controls-proposed/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Simon Forsyth Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:51:10 +0000 http://northbynwa.com/2008/03/23/nationalwide-ban-on-new-coal-power-plants-without-co2-controls-proposed/#comment-241 The claims by Marohasy about global temperature leveling off or dropping are unfounded. A simple email to her source, Roy Spencer at NASA, can clear it up. Which is what I did. Roy says that Marohasy is confused. He states that the data is not from the much vaunted Aqua satellite project as Marohasy claimed, and is not global average but a much smaller sample of 20 degrees either side of the equator. Paper published by Roy Spencer can be found here: http://www.weatherquestions.com/Spencer_07GRL.pdf Now for some clearly needed Ad hominem. Marohasy, the scientist who has misrepresented the information in the interview, appears to have published only a dozen scientific papers or so in areas such as biological control. Her expertise is clearly not climate. She has had a long association with banking, industry and anti-conservation environmental groups that advocate actions like whale hunting. Not the person I would be quoting on climate change. Check out Marohasy's web site: http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/about.php The claims by Marohasy about global temperature leveling off or dropping are unfounded. A simple email to her source, Roy Spencer at NASA, can clear it up. Which is what I did. Roy says that Marohasy is confused. He states that the data is not from the much vaunted Aqua satellite project as Marohasy claimed, and is not global average but a much smaller sample of 20 degrees either side of the equator.

Paper published by Roy Spencer can be found here:
http://www.weatherquestions.com/Spencer_07GRL.pdf

Now for some clearly needed Ad hominem. Marohasy, the scientist who has misrepresented the information in the interview, appears to have published only a dozen scientific papers or so in areas such as biological control. Her expertise is clearly not climate. She has had a long association with banking, industry and anti-conservation environmental groups that advocate actions like whale hunting. Not the person I would be quoting on climate change.

Check out Marohasy’s web site:
http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/about.php

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