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Warmists: 'We can't win the game, so let's change the rules'
The Telegraph ^ | 1/18/11 | James Delingpole

Posted on 01/18/2011 3:53:39 AM PST by markomalley

Willis Eschenbach’s recent guest post at Watts Up With That? on the current state of ‘Climate science’ should be made compulsory reading in every classroom, every university science department, every eco-charity, every environmental NGO and in every branch of government. They won’t like it up ‘em, that’s for sure.

What Eschenbach says is so pure and simple and obvious you’d need to be as dumb as Chris Huhne not to get it:

The theory linking man-made CO2 with dangerous global warming is dead. It has been falsified. It has run smack bang into a “null hypothesis.” It has met its Waterloo. It has bought the farm. It has gone for a Burton. It has cashed in its chips, fallen off its perch, gone south, gone west, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible.  Man-made Global Warming has ceased to exist.

Eschenbach wrote his post in response to a bizarre speech prepared by Dr Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which he intended to deliver to the American Meteorological Society. Trenberth is the arch-warmist perhaps best known for writing the Climategate email which went:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

When Trenberth’s speech was pre-published on the internet it caused something of a stir, both for the way large chunks of it had been taken almost verbatim from another scientist and for its use six times of the word “denier”. (Thanks to some kindly advice proferred by Steve McIntyre, Trenberth has now significantly altered his speech. “Deniers” has been altered to “sceptics.” Probably quite sensibly since many in the AMS, being meteorologists rather than “climate scientists” tend very much to…

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: climate; co2; globalwarminghoax; planetgore; trenberth; warming
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1 posted on 01/18/2011 3:53:41 AM PST by markomalley
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To: steelyourfaith

ping


2 posted on 01/18/2011 3:54:04 AM PST by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley
Deny-er. Last night's ice storm and freezing cold in the DC-NY area was caused by global warming, you know it. It makes it colder in the winter, hotter in the summer, rainier in the spring and dryer in the fall(or vice versa), and it created the STINK-BUG invasion. Hail to Al Gore :)
3 posted on 01/18/2011 3:57:38 AM PST by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: markomalley

Keep scheming and we will fill our jails with your rotting, lying carcasses.

LLS


4 posted on 01/18/2011 4:19:28 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: markomalley; enough_idiocy; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; TenthAmendmentChampion; Clive; scripter; ...
Thanx again, Mark !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

5 posted on 01/18/2011 4:20:07 AM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: markomalley
Good article. I especially like the sentence "That’s recursive enough to make Ouroboros weep in envy." which sent me scrambling to the dictionary. You learn something new everyday.
6 posted on 01/18/2011 4:21:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: markomalley
….and now for something completely Thatcher…
7 posted on 01/18/2011 4:31:07 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Sid Sodnagel sez “A Tautology is a circular argument with a radius of zero.”


8 posted on 01/18/2011 4:41:48 AM PST by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: markomalley

Intersting. Ping for later.....


9 posted on 01/18/2011 4:45:31 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: markomalley
It has cashed in its chips, fallen off its perch, gone south, gone west, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible. Man-made Global Warming has ceased to exist.

"This is an ex-theory!"

"It's not dead - it's pinin'... pinin' for the fjords.... lovely plumage..."

10 posted on 01/18/2011 4:52:57 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: markomalley
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

When the facts don't fit the hypothesis, it's time to revise the hypothesis.

11 posted on 01/18/2011 5:17:56 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom
When the facts don't fit the hypothesis, it's time to revise the hypothesis.

Or in this case:

When the facts don't fit the hypothesis, it's time to revise the hypothesis facts.

12 posted on 01/18/2011 5:19:02 AM PST by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley

The latest discovery to refute global warming is that sea levels may actually be dropping. If that proves true, then Al Gore’s baby is deader than Generalissimo Francisco Franco.


13 posted on 01/18/2011 5:36:56 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: markomalley
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not adhere to a valid scientific methodology, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status. Pseudoscience is often characterized by the use of vague, exaggerated or unprovable claims, an over-reliance on confirmation rather than rigorous attempts at refutation, a lack of openness to evaluation by other experts, and a general absence of systematic processes to rationally develop theories. The term "pseudoscience" is inherently pejorative, because it suggests that something is being inaccurately or deceptively portrayed as science. Accordingly, those labeled as practicing or advocating pseudoscience normally dispute the characterization.

Distinguishing scientific facts and theories from pseudoscientific beliefs such as astrology, homeopathy, medical quackery, occult beliefs, and other superstitions [Add: AGW] is part of science education and scientific literacy.

14 posted on 01/18/2011 5:55:53 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: markomalley
“Deniers” has been altered to “sceptics.”

So now the deniers are all full of crap?

15 posted on 01/18/2011 5:57:57 AM PST by sniper63 (Did you plug the hole in the border yet daddy........)
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To: exDemMom

His complaint actually addressed the lack of reliable instrumentation. He thought that if we had enough of the right kind of sensors, they would confirm his AGW. He was referring to the energy budget of the earth. Ultimately, the amount energy radiated by the earth must equal incident solar energy plus any energy released by the earth, from nuclear reactions and chemical processes. This follows from the elementary physics, tying up the details and determining the equilibrium point is messy.


16 posted on 01/18/2011 5:59:46 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

bttt


17 posted on 01/18/2011 6:07:21 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: sniper63
Deniers” has been altered to “sceptics.”
So now the deniers are all full of crap?

You've got sceptics and septics confused.

18 posted on 01/18/2011 6:55:22 AM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: markomalley
This is the biggest hoax in scientific history- when Watson and Crick discovered the double helix they didn't need to forge a "consensus" among the world's scientists - they had the truth. And it was proven and accepted.

These Global Warning alarmists are embarrassing themselves and hurting science.

19 posted on 01/18/2011 8:02:00 AM PST by jd777
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To: sickoflibs

In Gen 8:22,

God reveals that He is a “global warming denier”.


20 posted on 01/18/2011 8:05:17 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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