Taking GAIA's Temperature

I am very busy today trying to figure out what I was to do last week, so, thanks to Irene, I have a quick and dirty data capture regarding a journal article based on work from three universities.

I have to guess, these guys are not part of the 100% of all "scientists" Al Gore says agrees with him. These guys are named and have identifiable relevant specialties not related to psychology and chimpology. They are doing their work, non pontificating in areas beyond their specialties. That is my job.

Bjarne, as I like to refer to him, has an academic vitae online with 83 peer reviewed papers. This distinguishes the author from the unnamed "scientists" quoted in reports written by unnamed functionaries with active political agendas. Bjarne is a fan of aqua vit and long walks along the fiordes, as I understand.

I examined the list of articles carefully and assure you I would have no idea what Bjarne is talking about - and he writes in English. I like the idea of non-equilibrium, however.

I didn't see a paper on denying the Holocaust.

Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics.

Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 15 (UPI) -- A Danish scientist said the idea of a "global temperature" and global warming is more political than scientific.

University of Copenhagen Professor Bjarne Andresen has analyzed the topic in collaboration with Canadian Professors Christopher Essex from the University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph.

It is generally assumed the Earth's atmosphere and oceans have grown warmer during the recent 50 years because of an upward trend in the so-called global temperature, which is the result of complex calculations and averaging of air temperature measurements taken around the world.

"It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth," said Andresen, an expert on thermodynamics. "A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate".

He says the currently used method of determining the global temperature -- and any conclusion drawn from it -- is more political than scientific.

The argument is presented in the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. Good luck finding it.