Warming up
Bravo to David Hambling for his precise response to Barry Baldwin on climate change causes [FT434:14]. Are there any places online where we can find the sources he mentions, especially the satellite tracking of how much energy reaches us from the Sun each year?
It’s always good to have solid sources to provide to those contesting the current understanding. I often think that apart from any emotional reassurance people arguing against human caused climate change provide themselves, what they’re really looking for is to feel engagement with the subject. Actual data rather than secondor third-hand reports might help them feel as if they’re being given the chance to understand, rather than just accept on authority.
Dean Teasdale
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David Hambling writes:
I have provided TinyURL links for three of the most relevant references below.
NASA’s page on “Is the Sun causing global warming?” https://tinyurl.com/4nnbk33w Paper with details on ‘fingerprinting’ and determining that human-produced greenhouse gases and particulate atmospheric pollution have influenced global changes https://tinyurl.com/yyj5m8n8 Space.com piece on how solar changes affect Earth’s climate but are not responsible for this round of climate change https://tinyurl.com/4w4m946p
Kenneth Anger
Excellent Kenneth Anger obituary []. I think it worth noting that Anger is the only person who maintains that Bobby Beausoleil stole the footage (shot in 1967, not 1966 as the obituary states) and buried it in the desert. Beausoleil himself has always denied it. But Anger always seemed prone to exaggeration and embellishment where Beausoleil was concerned. For example, the claim that Anger cursed Beausoleil following their falling out; the way Anger told it in later footage after all.
