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I heard Anna say on TripleJ's hack program last night that its important people know that its the warmest the Earth has ever been.

I phoned in & told the shows programmer that I wanted to make a comment in relation to Anna's statement. She said "yes, what would you like to say?" I told her that Anna's statement was incorrect! I said the Earth for the last million years has had glacial cycles with a duration of 100,000 years & that past interglacials have been at least as warm as the present interglacial & some were up to 6C hotter than the present interglacial.

To this the programmer said "where did you get that information?" I said scientific papers using ice core & ocean sediment core data.

"I believe there's a consensus among scientists that reject that" said the programmer.

I said "what?"
I said "it is scientists that give this info in scientific papers & its not even controversial, & its well know."

"A consensus is what a committee decides on - an opinion. Science is not a committee; science is not about opinion, its about what the data tells us" I calmly told the programmer.


Anna also said what's important is people understand that co2 is a greenhouse gas & it trap heat. They need to know that.

I said to the programmer that this statement by Anna was misleading because it is well understood & agreed that a doubling of co2 on its own would theoretically lead to a warming of only 1C, & the IPCC's 3C for a doubling of co2 includes the hypothesis of strongly positive feedback, & that hypothesis is yet to be proven, & the data shows otherwise.

"Oh, that's getting too in-depth for this program" said the programmer.

"What, can't Anna respond to that ?" I asked.

"Doesn't Anna know about the basics of the subject she's being interviewed about?" I added.

"Don't want the truth spoken on the show in case people might hear it?" I told the programmer.


She didn't let me speak my opinion on the radio.

Pathetic!