Posted on 11/22/2012 1:40:41 PM PST by neverdem
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COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
MYTH 1: Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate.
FACT: The HadCRUT3 surface temperature index shows warming to 1878, cooling to 1911, warming to 1941, cooling to 1964, warming to 1998 and cooling through 2011. The warming rate from 1964 to 1998 was the same as the previous warming from 1911 to 1941. Satellites, weather balloons and ground stations all show cooling since 2001. The mild warming of 0.6 to 0.8 C over the 20th century is well within the natural variations recorded in the last millennium. The ground station network suffers from an uneven distribution across the globe; the stations are preferentially located in growing urban and industrial areas (“heat islands”), which show substantially higher readings than adjacent rural areas (“land use effects”). Two science teams have shown that correcting the surface temperature record for the effects of urban development would reduce the warming trend over land from 1980 by half.
There has been no catastrophic warming recorded.
MYTH 2: The “hockey stick” graph proves that the earth has experienced a steady, very gradual temperature decrease for 1000 years, then recently began a sudden increase.
FACT: Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time. For instance, the Medieval Warm Period, from around 1000 to 1200 AD (when the Vikings farmed on Greenland) was followed by a period known as the Little Ice Age. Since the end of the 17th Century the “average global temperature” has been rising at the low steady rate mentioned above; although from 1940 – 1970 temperatures actually dropped, leading to a Global Cooling scare.
The “hockey stick”, a poster boy of both the UN’s IPCC and Canada’s Environment Department, ignores historical recorded...
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Last week The Mail on Sunday provoked an international storm by publishing a new official world temperature graph showing there has been no global warming since 1997.The figures came from a database called Hadcrut 4 and were issued by the Met Office and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University.
Bottom line,....those who belive
Global Warming, Preach it, or pin their repuation on it, are Dumber than a Rock.
If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes accepted as truth. That lie is being perpetrated by our international left wing usual suspects. Unfortunately it is now accepted as fact in public education and pop culture. We may have enough detractors today....I worry about the next generation though.
To think they(government) would fund decades of this fake research all to hurt oil(capitalism) shows that anyone who votes for democrats and their growing government are idiots. For decades Governments all over the world spent billions of $ to fund this the fake research that created the hoax called global warming. This proves government/socialism doesn’t work. This is science they say. It’s all a hoax and fake. And the media go along with this lie. Anything based on a lie is evil and so government and the media are evil but democrats worship government and trust government. Why do these idiots trust government and the media?
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When I was in high school (late 1960s) I remember my science teachers, as well as others, stating that we were entering another ice age.
I was a professional meteorologist for 30 years. The most striking conversations with collegues that I recall about “global warming” went something like this:
Yes, the science is not all that definitive, but it is not really a problem. It is not as if anything bad happens if we are wrong. We get more government research programs, more alternative energy (oil is a limited resource), more reasons to do the right things. So, there is no real downside.
Yes, the science is not all that definitive, but it is not really a problem. It is not as if anything bad happens if we are wrong. We get more government research programs, more alternative energy (oil is a limited resource), more reasons to do the right things. So, there is no real downside.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/american-oil-find-holds-oil-opec/story?id=17536852#.UK1vt-Q0WSq
"In the past 100 years — in all of human history -- we have consumed 1 trillion barrels of oil. There are several times that much here," said Roger Day, vice president for operations for American Shale Oil (AMSO).
One deposit has enough oil for 200-300 years for the entire world. So much for that "(oil is a limited resource)" implication having relative relevence.
Junk “science” File.
I would like to clear things up a bit. I would complain to my collegues that “global warming” was not supported by science.
They would then make that reply. What I was trying to illustrate is that many of them did not see the obvious downside of more government control, because a lot of them thought more government control was a good thing!
This will never make the news.
After nearly a century of government schooling grooming them to believe in the efficacy of central planning what would you expect?
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