I seem to recall that the earth’s rate of rotation decreases a few tenths of a millisecond per year.

Do you prefer that we turn the whole world into a Cretaceous Park, or is there some point at which you’d say that it’s fair for us to take control over the global thermometer from the fossil fuel firms?

Good grief, Brian. I’m not the miner, you are, if you’re _that_ guy. Are you?

_You_ have to dig. I can help you figure out _where_ to dig (so can anyone else, it’s cut and paste work with the search engine).

Let’s paste your text into Scholar one more time again yet:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=relationship+between+SSTs+and+CO2+growth

Consider LeQuere’s work for example.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=Lequere+biological+productivity+sea+surface+temperature+climate+model

Good grief, Brian.

(tamino)

Actually I was hoping to intrigue you enough to investigate in detail the statistical relationship between SOI and Co2 growth. A while back I posted my “cherry-picked” R2 of .64 and you noted due to autocorrelation it was unlikely as strong as I believed. But you never came back with any statistics counter to my preliminary investigation.

Hank Roberts apparently was unable to dig up any papers on the relationship between SSTs and CO2 growth, so to my mind (as noted above) the topic is ripe for investigation. I think you also noted the Knorr et al 2007 paper was weak because it wasn’t supported by appropriate statistical analysis.

All in all there are lots of reasons to pursue this hypothesis further. If I had the time and the expertise….but I don’t.

Regards, BRK

This “outing” is pretty old too, since that happened on the Globe and Mail blogs about a year ago.

I will say another thing which should be obvious but perhaps needs repeating. My motives can be whatever this audience wants them to be, but that is irrelevant to whether my hypotheses are correct or incorrect. No amount of casting aspersion on my character changes the R2 statistic on the relationship between SOI and the monthly CO2 growth rate.

As a final point, if I was really into changing the political landscape on climate change, this wouldn’t be the blog to do it on. It’s too technical, low traffic, and populated by sincere AGW believers to make any progress on that front.

Regards, BRK

[Response: What is relevant to whether your hypotheses are correct or incorrect is your disdain for proper statistical evaluation, as indicated by your claims about a decrease in the growth rate of CO2, and the quote from your comment on Watts' blog.]

What people are missing is that our state, provincial and federal governments, here in the US, in Canada and elsewhere, largely own the land from which coal is being extracted and collect very significant royalties as a result.

Political progress is delayed because the federal government doesn’t want to cut off an important stream of revenues without a replacement, and because local governments are strongly opposed to losing such revenues and employment. If we want to see progress, the coal states out West and in Appalachia will need to be bought off.