His editorial parrots the claim that global warming violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics. What a surprise, at this late date, to find such a “clinching” argument! The paper he cites, “Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics,” is total nonsense. The Second Law, you will recall, says that a cold body cannot warm a warmer body. Heat flows the other way.

The CO2 in the atmosphere does not “warm” the earth like a heat pump. Rather, it slows the re-radiation of the Sun’s heat back into space. Heat continues to flow the proper direction, just a bit slower.

So, the limited effect of CO2 warming may well exist – it violates no physical laws. The problem is that the effect is miniscule compared to all the other variables that affect climate.

From: Tom Wigley
To: Phil Jones
Subject: Re: Revised CC text
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:40:57 -0700

Thanks, Phil.

A bunch of us are putting something together on the latest Lindzen and Choi crap (GRL). Not a comment, but a separate paper to avoid giving Lindzen the last word.

Tom.

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The team as ‘victim’. According to WaPo, more need to speak out for the team.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101155.html

“A few scientists answered the Climategate charges almost instantly. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, whose e-mails were among those made public, made a number of television and radio appearances.”
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“But they were largely alone. “I haven’t had all that many other scientists helping in that effort,” Mann told me recently. “

All I know is:

Mann
Trenberth
Jones
Schneider