Thursday, 12 February 2009

More on the Ibuki space probe...

...for those like eco-porn kings Al Bore and James Hansen who claim the debate is over, the science settled... the Ibuki space probe will collect data for 5 years to help determine atmospheric levels of methane and CO2. Ibuki is part of an ongoing programme aimed at determining whether the planet is warming or cooling, and helping to identify the reasons for temperature changes . ...
...The Ibuki can log incontrovertible evidence, observing over fifty thousand locations every hundred minutes. It's pretty much the best measurement you can get short of confiscating the atmosphere and sticking it through a spectrometer. Whether the data will support the current greenhouse gas scenarios or suggest that something else is taking place remains to be seen, but whatever it says people will have to listen or brand themselves as utterly ignorable from then on. When someone actually comes back with numbers based on "leaving the planet for a better view," you either accept them or put on your novelty "I ignore what doesn't suit me" baseball cap (with complementary blinkers)...more, here...

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