{"id":10017,"date":"2011-07-29T21:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/07\/29\/what-would-you-ask-an-expert-o\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:41:22","slug":"what-would-you-ask-an-expert-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/what-would-you-ask-an-expert-o\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you ask an expert on climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday’s radio show<\/a> is going to be a very special treat for all of us. Mike Haubrich and I are going to be speaking with Kevin Zelnio and John Abraham about climate change, global warming, and science vs. denialism.
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\nJohn Abraham is an expert on Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics and stirred up a bit of trouble (in a good way) when he responded to a presentation made by AGW Denialist Chrisopher Monckton at one of our local TRC’s1<\/sup>, Bethel University. Kevin Zelnio is a former Sbling, a science journalist, and member of the blogging teams at Scientific American Blogs<\/a> and Deep Sea News<\/a>. He has written on the effects of climate change on the sea life.<\/p>\n

It is an especially interesting time to be speaking about climate change and denialism, given the publication just now of a remarkable paper by a climate change denialist in a peer reviewed scientific journal, as well as a second paper that is getting less attention (so far) that does not suggest that global warming is “not real” but that will be used by denialists to do so.<\/p>\n

The first paper is described here: On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance<\/a><\/p>\n

The second paper is here: Particles in upper atmosphere slow down global warming<\/a><\/p>\n

The first paper is a hoax that managed to find its way into a peer reviewed journal, written by well known climate change denialists. The second study actually seems to indicate that things could be worse than they are if there was a different distribution of dust in the climate system, but I hasten to add that I’ve not read that paper yet.<\/p>\n

Here are a few other current items you may want to familiarize yourself so that when you sit down with a cup of coffee on Sunday Morning to listen to the show you’ll be very informed.<\/p>\n