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By: Martin Lack

Martin Lack — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:04:22 +0000

Thanks very much for visiting and commenting Elaine. Sorry this comment got Spammed (I don’t know why). Have now emailed you. Very best wishes for completing the PhD.

By: elainemckewon

elainemckewon — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:40:14 +0000

Great website – and your research sounds fascinating. I would be very interested in reading your MA dissertation. I’m also looking at the rhetoric used by CTTs to construct a ‘scientific debate’ about climate change in the Australian news media. It would be great to compare results and have a look at your bibliography.

By: Martin Lack

Martin Lack — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:21:41 +0000

That is my pleasure, Alex, However, to repeat, I am not an expert in climate change. I am merely someone who has looked into the science – and the politics/ideology underlying its disputation – and am now trying to help others appreciate who it is that has been lying to them for decades.

By: Alex Jones

Alex Jones — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:04:53 +0000

Thanks for the reply. My question arises as you have been my first encounter with an expert in climate change. This question is important to me as regardless of human or natural influence on why the ice is melting, it is going to vanish completely in the North. There is a chain of effect with the Gulf Stream as a significant player, the loss of the cold fresh water mediator will have a major outcome but I am not knowledgeable what the outcome would be. Thanks for the link.

By: Martin Lack

Martin Lack — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:52:08 +0000

Hi Alex. Thanks for visiting my About page. I hope you did not waste any/too much time reading my insane exchanges with Peter Freeman (et al)? I am both curious about your question; and why you would ask me (a geologist / hydrogeologist) if I know the answer.

Although I am not an atmospheric physicist, I am tempted to respond by saying that the scenario you describe is what made Hurricane Sandy so large and powerful. However, since this is not my area of expertise, I would feel much more comfortable referring you to the blog of someone I know whose it is: http://weatherdem.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/state-of-polar-sea-ice-february-2013-arctic-below-and-antarctic-above-normal/

By: Alex Jones

Alex Jones — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:39:28 +0000

Martin, thanks for your recent replies to me on another blog. A question you may be able to answer that is nagging at me. When the warm Gulf Stream hits the fast flowing North Polar Jet Stream without the mediation of cold fresh water from the North Pole (assuming all the ice it is now gone), what will happen?

By: Martin Lack

Martin Lack — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:30:36 +0000

No, thank you (for all the likes and for following my blog)!

Sadly, many climate change deniers think they can defeat logic and reality just by volume of words. This has been a valuable lesson to me (because I can be pretty verbose myself). However, I remain a little embarrassed by the fact that some of them have prompted me to lose my patience and be uncharacteristically rude…

By: D. A. Hartley

D. A. Hartley — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:48:01 +0000

You have some very ‘wordy’ commenters!
I just want to say, ‘Well Done!’
Please keep me in the loop….
Thank you,
D.A.

By: Schalk

Schalk — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:36:06 +0000

Hehe… Thanks for the kind words and an even bigger thanks for reading through some of the more technical stuff on my blog. Your feedback is very much appreciated – so much so that I have just nominated you for another award

http://oneinabillionblog.com/2012/08/26/reader-appreciation-award/