Admiral David Titley was formerly Chief Oceanographer for the US Navy. Now retired, he teaches at Penn State University.
Here, he fields questions from a conservative radio jock in Bozeman, Montana.
More from Admiral Titley on climate and National Security, below.
Titley is impressive. He speaks in clear, not-too-technical language to the guy on the street. A good spokesman for the cause. If your average American can’t understand his message, it’s because he doesn’t want to
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It appears that no matter what the past position was of an anthropogenic global warming alarmist such as this retired Navy Admiral, David Titley, the need to prevaricate is ever present. During his radio message, he stated that without CO2 the earth would be covered with ice. One can only wonder at why he did not mention the main green house gas that is responsible for from 95 to 98% of the greenhouse effect and that is H2O & without water vapor average temperatures would be up to 30 degrees Celsius lower. From my dealings with alarmist, it; on the surface, appears to be just plain down right dishonesty that leads to this type of oversight.
Then the Admiral spends much time wringing his hands over supposed sea level rise and prevaricates about that to the same degree that he did H2O.
”Reconstruction of regional mean sea level anomalies from tide gauges using neural networks The global mean sea level for the period January 1900 to December 2006 is estimated to rise at a rate of 1.56 ± 0.25 mm/yr which is reasonably consistent with earlier estimates, but we do not find significant acceleration. ”
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010/2009JC005630.shtml
We have these facts about Green land:
”We find a 12% or 86 Gt y-1 increase in ice sheet accumulation rate from the end of the Little Ice Age in ~1840 to the last decade of the reconstruction. This 1840-1996 trend is 30% higher than that of 1600-2009, suggesting an accelerating accumulation rate. The correlation of Ât(G) with the average surface air temperature in the Northern.”
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00373.1
The truth would be appreciated regarding this issue.
The Greenland paper you cite is authored by my friend, Dark Snow Chief Scientist Jason Box, whose views on Greenland mass balance are well known to me, and readers of this blog.
You quote a passage out of context, from one of a 3 paper series of publications. Easiest way to get the bottom line is simply listen to Dr. Box himself and see what he has derived from a lifetime of study in Greenland. If you were interested in the truth, you might have been paying attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PsOVGeR6LI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Cbr0l1fVo
Just like the Terminator, HE’S BACK! STONEHEAD SWALLOW!! Dare we hope that Dave Burton will be the next to return and pollute the discourse on Crock??
And he takes up where he left off with the horsepucky, or is he just kidding us with “The truth would be appreciated regarding this issue”?. I ask if he’s kidding because he has done his usual cherry-picking, distorting, and misinterpreting in this comment, and still doesn’t seem to know what “truth” means.
I particularly like his attempt to make something of water vapor using some very bad logic. Water is HERE, Stonehead, as it has been for a very long time, as a solid, liquid, and gas—-it part of the baseline climate picture now. CO2 is the one GHG that shows both correlation and causality with global warming over the past 200 years—-that’s why those of us with open minds worry about it more than water..