Global Warming Fakery & Gore
Monday, October 12, 2009
Lots of people talking about
this admission by the BBC that the earth has been cooling, not warming) for over a decade.
Longtime readers know my thoughts on this hooey; I am glad to see this.
There is lots of new information coming out indicating that the whole AGW boondoggle was, always, a boondoggle, (”yeah, that earth shaking data? We lost it! and those hockey sticks? Um, kinda…never mind about that!”)
That makes me glad, all this boondoggle-unveiling.
Glad doesn’t feel like much, however, when one realizes that the Al Gore Travelin’ Earth Salvation Show and the complicit media (and “international community”) have excited ruinous legislation in many countries, and that our own “science czar” is one of Gore’s true believers. And that our president and the congress intend to debilitate our economy - admitting they’re going to do it - for the sake of this freakshow fakery.
Al “no press allowed” and “no debates” Gore, is a cheesy sort (and I say this having once believed he was the stronger half of the Clinton/Gore ticket) who once said (and the article is gone, baby, gone, now) that the press should not report on views that dissented from his Imperial Premise.
Al Gore is a man whose daddy got rich from selling coal. Selling carbon.
Al Gore got even richer selling useless, politically-correct-feel-good-mumbo-jumbo “carbon offsets.”
I’m no psychologist, but that rather sounds like maybe Gore’s Inconvenient Truth is that he hated his daddy.
I’d love to hear from some of the psycho-blogs about that idea.
Meanwhile, as the bloom comes off the road, the hoo-ers are ramping up the pressure to pass their legislation.
She then posts a list of hyperlinks to recent related articles on the 'global warming' debunk - the titles say it, but if you want to follow the articles, go to the blog entry today:
www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/
Canada Looking at Bush’s Green Bloc
Inconvenient Truth; Bush Greener than Gore
Iraq and Global Warming; A Study in Irony
Turn up the Heat? Yes we Can
Go Ahead, Impeach Bush; Try Him
The Sun Goes Solar Minimal
Dude, Where’s My Sunspots
Do Climate Changes Affect CO2 Levels
Obama lying about Carbon Emissions?
Wouldn’t this Kill the Trees?
17,000 Scientists Dissent; No Consensus on Global Warming
Warnings Against Tyranny
Saddam/Bush and Eden again
Beyond Kyoto: Effective work sans the UN
Yes, Global Warming is Hoo-ha, Part II
Yes, Global Warming is Hoo-ha
The Media’s Full Court Press on Global Warming
Scientists call for Kyoto debate
The Global Warming Gasbags
So, Next Catholics Should Stop Lighting Candles?
Stow the Summer Concerts; Save the World
Is Fascism like Porn; do you know it when you see it?
The Talked-Down Economy, Circa 2005
Since this entire exercise began, I have always inclined to think that global warming advocates have been tendentiously selective in presenting 'facts' to support their stand, because level-headed scientists have been able to present results of unimpeachable studies and research, including tabulations of global temperature readings taken over historical periods as well as in recent decades and years, that not only contradict the selective data, but also point out the fallacious premises used to slant the data towards a 'global warming' trend. Meanwhile, the 'global warming' militants have chosen not to account for these contradictions and fallacies.
At the very least, an objective follower of this debate would have to say the issue is an open question. And whereas this does not mean we should not all do our part, individual and collective, to be energy-conscious and emergy-responsible, it should act as a brake to drastic bleeding-heart measures that are not entirely founded on fact and would represent an unnecessary economic setback foe every affected sector.
Here's the BBC report that the Anchoress refers to - and remember, for the ultra-liberal BBC to report anything like this has to mean something! The report reflects the state of the climate change debate today.
What happened to global warming?
By Paul Hudson
Climate correspondent
10/9/09
Average temperatures have not increased for over a decade.
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on?
Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.
They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this?
During the last few decades of the 20th Century, our planet did warm quickly.
Recent research has ruled out solar influences on temperature increases.
Sceptics argue that the warming we observed was down to the energy from the Sun increasing. After all 98% of the Earth's warmth comes from the Sun.
But research conducted two years ago, and published by the Royal Society, seemed to rule out solar influences.
The scientists' main approach was simple: to look at solar output and cosmic ray intensity over the last 30-40 years, and compare those trends with the graph for global average surface temperature.
And the results were clear. "Warming in the last 20 to 40 years can't have been caused by solar activity," said Dr Piers Forster from Leeds University, a leading contributor to this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
But one solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees.
He claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.
He is so excited by what he has discovered that he plans to tell the international scientific community at a conference in London at the end of the month.
If proved correct, this could revolutionise the whole subject.
What is really interesting at the moment is what is happening to our oceans. They are the Earth's great heat stores.
In the last few years [the Pacific Ocean] has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down
According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated.
The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO).
For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too.
But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down.
These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years.
So could global temperatures follow? The global cooling from 1945 to 1977 coincided with one of these cold Pacific cycles.
Professor Easterbrook says: "The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling."
So what does it all mean? Climate change sceptics argue that this is evidence that they have been right all along.
They say there are so many other natural causes for warming and cooling, that even if man is warming the planet, it is a small part compared with nature.
But those scientists who are equally passionate about man's influence on global warming argue that their science is solid.
The UK Met Office's Hadley Centre, responsible for future climate predictions, says it incorporates solar variation and ocean cycles into its climate models, and that they are nothing new.
In fact, the centre says they are just two of the whole host of known factors that influence global temperatures - all of which are accounted for by its models.
In addition, say Met Office scientists, temperatures have never increased in a straight line, and there will always be periods of slower warming, or even temporary cooling.
What is crucial, they say, is the long-term trend in global temperatures. And that, according to the Met office data, is clearly up.
To confuse the issue even further, last month Mojib Latif, a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) says that we may indeed be in a period of cooling worldwide temperatures that could last another 10-20 years.
The UK Met Office says that warming is set to resume.
Professor Latif is based at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany and is one of the world's top climate modellers.
But he makes it clear that he has not become a sceptic; he believes that this cooling will be temporary, before the overwhelming force of man-made global warming reasserts itself.
So what can we expect in the next few years?
Both sides have very different forecasts. The Met Office says that warming is set to resume quickly and strongly.
It predicts that from 2010 to 2015 at least half the years will be hotter than the current hottest year on record (1998).
Sceptics disagree. They insist it is unlikely that temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 1998 until 2030 at the earliest. It is possible, they say, that because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely.
One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.
A current news round-up on this issue may be found in today's edition (10/12/09) of The Drudge Report:
www.drudgereport.com/
The item headlines are indicative:
BBC: What happened to global warming?
US CHILL MAP...
Montana cold breaks records...
Record Cold temps in Idaho threaten potato crops...
Austria: Earliest snowfall in history set to break records...
Man has microphone cut off after asking about 'errors' in Gore film...
Soros says aims to invest $1 Billion in green tech...
Greenpeace activists clamber on to Houses of Parliament in climate change protest...
Energy crisis postponed, new gas rescues the world...
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 12/10/2009 18:14]