Some clear heads in Omaha, Nebraska
From Anthony at
Watts Up With That:
Omaha schools pull Laurie David�s AGW book citing �major factual error� and DiCaprio video �without merit�.
Omaha.com reports on the school board that made this decision here. This book has been around since 2007. Since she�s married to Seinfeld producer Larry David, so it fits right in with the rest of the Seinfeld saga. For example, did you know NASA GISS is over �Monks restaurant� from the show? No, really.
An SPPI report on David�s book in 2007 said:
On page 18 of Laurie David�s new children�s global warming book, there is a glaring scientific error. David tells children:Deep down in the Antarctic ice are atmosphere samples from the past, trapped in tiny air bubbles. These bubbles, formed when snowflakes fell on the ice, are the key to figuring out two things about climate history: what temperatures were in the past and which greenhouse gases were present in the atmosphere at that time. The more the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the higher the temperature climbed. The less carbon dioxide, the more the temperature fell. You can see this relationship for yourself by looking at the graph:
David adds:What makes this graph so amazing is that by connecting rising CO2 to rising temperature scientists have discovered the link between greenhouse-gas pollution and global warming.
What really makes their graph �amazing� is that it�s dead wrong.
The graph has been around for 20 years or so and clearly shows CO2 concentrations lagging temperatures by a couple hundred to 1K years. It warms up, plants start to grow and decay and CO2 is released to the atmosphere.
What Gore's new schmoopsie (unngghhh - need some brain bleach for that one) did was to reverse the temps and the CO2 concentrations to show the opposite. I am guessing that they sincerely thought their copy of the graph was mislabeled and they felt justified in "correcting" it without bothering to check their sources...
Posted by DaveH at June 18, 2010 8:33 PM