Last week I wrote an open letter to Professor Tsonis, where he replied with the following
"I am not really sure who you are and what is your profession but it seems you have much more time in your hands to deal with all these issues than I do.
You wrote to me and asked me questions. I answered them but obviously you did not understand my replies and asked more questions. I replied to your new request that I cannot continue an exchange of answers and questions for ever. I am dealing with a lot of people and I have a job to attend to. Now if you see this as an evasive action then you need to set back and relax.
All the best
Professor Anastasios Tsonis
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In reply I would say,
Professor Tsonis, it doesn't matter who I am, nor how much or little time I have at my disposal.
Furthermore professor, you most certainly did not answer my questions - instead you repeated the same old evasions and misdirection.
Thing is, a google search shows that you have been very active in trying to present a science fiction story that Earth as a planet has entered a cooling phase.
Your message flies in the face of known geophysical facts regarding Anthropogenic Global Warming. It is in fact nothing more that a politically motivated attack on science and attempt to misinform and dumb down the public, when solid information is what they/we need the most.
And it is about time you are taken to task for your misrepresentations.
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After my post a Steven B came to your defense in a sort of backhanded way, he wrote:
"It would be informative for you to have a look at Tsonis' own research (with various colleagues) pertinent to the discussion. He argues that he has identified a long-term cycle in the climate system (basically a periodic synching and unsynching of known shorter-term ocean cycles like ENSO) that would mean that we're in a hiatus that will last several decades.
After that, there will be a price to pay as the warm part of the cycle combines with the inexorably increasing radiative imbalance to create a sharp warming spike. Then lather, rinse, repeat. ..."
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OK, so Steven does make a good suggestion and we should look at some of your papers.
My complaint with you is that your often repeated public pronouncements (as opposed to your studies) are taken to mean that society doesn't have to worry about AGW and that our leaders and public should instead continue on with a business as usual attitude as though we don't have a critical situation demanding our immediate attention and action.
Following your papers and my comments.
I am including a 'Repost' of SkepticalScience.com's recent article:
Nuccitelli et al. (2013) Debunks Akasofu’s Magical Thinking
http://www.skepticalscience.com/nuccitelli-et-al-2013-akasofu-debunked.html
Admittedly, Akasofu's paper takes a different tack - Akasofu uses fancy statistical gamesmanship to rationalize that the current warming is merely a remnant of our planet "recovering" from the Little Ice Age. But, it is also another example of creative science in a vacuum, where a limited number of considerations allow a disingenuous presenter to make unsupportable claims about the state of our climate.
The reason I'm reposting the Nuccitelli et al. (2013) article is because it spells out scientific clarifications that have a direct bearing on the issues you have learned to distortion and evade so well.
