Posted on 03/31/2013 5:37:27 PM PDT by neverdem
In my Weekly Standard cover story about the fallout from the Climategate email scandal three years ago, I offered the following question by way of prediction:
Eventually the climate modeling community is going to have to reconsider the central question: Have the models the IPCC uses for its predictions of catastrophic warming overestimated the climates sensitivity to greenhouse gases?
The article then went on to survey emerging research (U.S. government funded!) casting doubt on high estimates of climate sensitivity, along with alternative explanations on some climate factors, such as black carbon. The question in my mind at the time was how long this would take to begin to break out into the mainstream scientific and media world.
That day appears to have arrived. The new issue of The Economist has a long feature on the declining confidence in the high estimates of climate sensitivity. That this appears in The Economist is significant, because this august British news organ has been fully on board with climate alarmism for years now. A Washington-based Economist correspondent admitted to me privately several years ago that the senior editors in London had mandated consistent and regular alarmist climate coverage in its pages...
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
The climate change endgame is 1/2 a billion people on the entire planet, with a collectivist government running the show. If it’s in sight, we have a problem.
To say nothing of young trees sucking in CO2 like teenage boys cleaning out the refrigerator. Cut more trees, mill lumber, build stuff and sequester more carbon!
I suspect this “religion” is planted so deeply it can’t be eradicated. The average USA 20-something knows far more about global warming than the US Constitution.
To paraphrase Mark Twain: It ain’t what the average 20 something don’t know about climate change that gets us into trouble. It’s what the average 20 something knows for sure about climate change that just ain’t so.
Morons and scientwists
we are getting all the energy, light, heat, radiation from the SUN and sunspots cycles cause the variation.
Just look at the changes: day/night, summer/winter and temperatures changes associated with them.
Humans have as much effect on “climate change” as Zero pissing in the ocean and causing “global flood”.
GET IT ?????
It is another scam to skin the taxpayer sheep.
What's the IPCC stand for...International Perps of Climatetheory Chaos?
And yet billions and billions in fraudulent grant dollars have been awarded to academic charlatans who seized on this charade to personally enrich themselves and their universities. And what about all the disbelieving true scientists who had their reputations destroyed, their careers shattered and, in many instances, their jobs terminate? Who pays for that? I would start with a never ending stream of lawsuits against the Wunderkind of global warming, that Nobel Prize winning Hollywood actor and producer, Al Gore.
Actually, the thing to do that would remove the most carbon is to ban computers and go back to doing everything by paper forms. And of course, ban any recycling of paper.
Using more lumber isn't bad either, but tree-derived paper would use FAR more tonnage of carbon extracted from the atmosphere.
When the Global Warming scam falls, elite liberals will replace it with another ‘sky is falling’ lie. It’s what they do....
Club of Rome - debunked
Nuclear Winter - debunked
Population Bomb - debunked
Peak Oil - debunked
Global Cooling - debunked
Global Warming - almost debunked....
There will be a new environmental catastrophe to replace global warming.
Just wait and see.
From: jeff.masters@weather.com [mailto:jeff.masters@weather.com]
If it were the sun were responsible for global warming, we would expect to see the most heating occurring during the daytime hours and during the summer, when the sun is at its strongest. Yet the greatest warming has occurred at night and in the winter months. If the sun were responsible for global warming, we would expect the entire column of the atmosphere to warm, not just the surface. Instead, we observe that the upper atmosphere--the stratosphere and mesosphere--is cooling, while the surface is warming. These observed trends--great heating in winter and at night, and cooling in the upper atmosphere while the surface is warming--are what climate change theory says should happen if heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide are responsible for the warming, and don't fit the idea that the sun is doing it. We also have satellite measurements of the total amount of solar energy arriving at the top of Earth's atmosphere from satellites since 1979, and these measurements show a slight decrease in solar energy during 1979 - 2012. In fact, Earth's warmest year on record--2010--occurred during a period where the satellite-measured incoming solar energy was near an all-time low, probably much lower than anything that has occurred for centuries. So, while it is natural to suspect the sun as the source of global warming, "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit!"
He quit responding to my emails when I asked him why then during the Paleozic and Mesozoic periods CO2 levels ranged from 2500 to 7000 ppm and life thrived and temps held a steady average never rising above 26 degrees Celsius. And right now CO2 levels are around 400 ppm. Whats the big problem? The left's arguement does not make logical sense...
Crickets ever since...prior to that he responded 3 or 4 times.
Wunderground was acquired by the Weather Channel.
Which itself was acquired by NBC.
As part of the progressive plan to pass off “climate change” as mainstream information.
Ask him why temperatures on our adjacent planets have also increased, commensurate with increased activity by the sun. Also, point out that upper atmospheric layers that are ‘thinner’ would not be expected to be warmed by sunlight to the same extent as those layers closer to Earth, for the same reasons that space is cold, despite sunlight.
LOL!
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