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Saturday, August 3, 2019

A blast from the past -- 1980s Science -- The Ice Cores

Science is 
never settled 
department:


Berner et al. (1980) 
found CO2 rose above
500 ppm in Greenland 
during the Early Holocene, 
and Antarctica’s CO2 
concentration rose 
to about 400 ppm 
during the same 
time period.



In 1982 Dr. Flohn, 
a climate scientist, 
wrote that 
changes in CO2 
concentration are 
significantly determined 
by temperature
“rather independent of” 
fossil fuel emissions.



Neftel et al. (1982) 
published a paper 
in the journal Nature 
documenting a CO2 rise 
of about 230 ppm 
(~190 ppm to 420 ppm) 
from roughly 
12,000 to 10,000 
years ago for a 
Greenland ice core. 



Wagner et al. (1999) 
published a paper 
in Science denouncing 
the “consensus” claim 
that CO2 gently and 
steadily rose for millennia, 
varying only between 
270 to 280 ppm.



Polish physicist 
Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski (1997) 
was a critic of ice core data.

He noted post-1985 tendencies 
for fellow scientists to 
employ selection bias 
in determining what 
measurements are “right” 
and which ones are “wrong”.

He cites Pearlman et al. (1986),
where the authors collected 
74 Antarctic ice core samples. 

Of those, 32 of the 74 (43%) 
were rejected because 
they had values too high,
or too low to match with 
pre-determined beliefs.

Discarding measured data 
you don't agree with is
science fraud.


G.S. Callendar’s CO2 
measurements reached 
375 to 550 ppm throughout 
the 1800s. 

These measurements 
were believed to be too high. 

So Callendar chose the 
measurements that he 
agreed with (circled).


















Professor Tom Segalstad, 
was a University of Oslo geologist.

Segalstad (1998) 
concludes:
“It is shown that 
carbon cycle 
modeling, based on 
non-equilibrium models, 
remote from 
observed reality, 
and chemical laws, 
made to fit 
non-representative 
data, through the use 
of non-linear correction 
‘buffer’ factors, 
constructed from a 
pre-conceived hypothesis, 
constitute a circular argument, 
and with no scientific validity.”