Rutan on Global Warming

Anyone else see his Oshkosh tirade? Excellent stuff!

"Mike Granby" wrote in message
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Anyone else see his Oshkosh tirade? Excellent stuff!

No, I didn't, so....got a link?

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:11:15 -0500, "scott" wrote in :

"Mike Granby" wrote in message
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Anyone else see his Oshkosh tirade? Excellent stuff!

No, I didn't, so....got a link?

http://www.airventure.org/news/2009/090731_rutan.html

https://twitter.com/stgarrity/status/3072354918

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Slides here, but no audio, which was of course the best bit...

http://www.slideshare.net/QuestSyste...anv5-read-only

"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote:

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:11:15 -0500, "scott" wrote in
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"Mike Granby" wrote in message
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Anyone else see his Oshkosh tirade? Excellent stuff!

No, I didn't, so....got a link?

http://www.airventure.org/news/2009/090731_rutan.html


"He said data shows that concerns about global warming are false. "CO2 is
plant food, not a pollutant," he said. "It's been 20 times as high as it
now. If you have a 1.2 percent increase in cloud formation and
precipitation, it offsets a 100 percent increase of CO2 in the atmosphere."

Gosh, Burt Rutan is climate genius, too! He knows more than the scientists.
Impressive!

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Dan

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"Dan Luke" wrote:
"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote:
http://www.airventure.org/news/2009/090731_rutan.html

"He said data shows that concerns about global warming are false. "CO2
is plant food, not a pollutant," he said. "It's been 20 times as high
as it now. If you have a 1.2 percent increase in cloud formation and
precipitation, it offsets a 100 percent increase of CO2 in the
atmosphere."

Gosh, Burt Rutan is climate genius, too!

So which of his numbers is wrong?

He knows more than the scientists. Impressive!

"Locus ab auctoritate est infirmissimus"

But here's his CV anyway:
http://www.roycecarlton.com/speaker-...riculum-Vitae/

"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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"Dan Luke" wrote:
"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote:
http://www.airventure.org/news/2009/090731_rutan.html

"He said data shows that concerns about global warming are false. "CO2
is plant food, not a pollutant," he said. "It's been 20 times as high
as it now. If you have a 1.2 percent increase in cloud formation and
precipitation, it offsets a 100 percent increase of CO2 in the
atmosphere."

Gosh, Burt Rutan is climate genius, too!

So which of his numbers is wrong?

Which of his numbers is relevant?

He knows more than the scientists. Impressive!

"Locus ab auctoritate est infirmissimus"

I would say the argument from cluelessness is weakest.

Rutan charged that climate scientists have it wrong, setting himself as a
superior authority. Is he?

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Dan

T182T at 4R4

Dan Luke wrote:
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"He said data shows that concerns about global warming are false. "CO2 is
plant food, not a pollutant," he said. "It's been 20 times as high as it
now. If you have a 1.2 percent increase in cloud formation and
precipitation, it offsets a 100 percent increase of CO2 in the atmosphere."

Gosh, Burt Rutan is climate genius, too! He knows more than the scientists.
Impressive!


Makes me wonder what kind of excellent composite aircraft the met
researchers could create, if they put their minds to it!

Brian W

On Aug 7, 5:05*pm, "Dan Luke" wrote:

Burt Rutan is climate genius, too! *He knows more
than the scientists. Impressive!

Rutan's pitch was that he was coming at the problem from the point of
view of someone versed in data analysis. He studied the data, and
decided that there was no trend to support the theory is warming, much
less anthropogenic warming. The most telling chart was the one that
showed global temperatures in comparison to solar output, in that the
fit was about as near perfect as you can get with this sort of thing.

"DL" == Dan Luke writes:

DL Gosh, Burt Rutan is climate genius, too! He knows more than
DL the scientists. Impressive!

Who knew?! Next, Sarah Palin will give a speech on health care
policy.

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