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5 Scientific Reasons That Global Warming Isn't Happening
Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2014 | John Hawkins

Posted on 02/18/2014 4:00:10 AM PST by Kaslin

How did global warming discussions end up hinging on what's happening with polar bears, unverifiable predictions of what will happen in a hundred years, and whether people are "climate deniers" or "global warming cultists?" If this is a scientific topic, why aren't we spending more time discussing the science involved? Why aren't we talking about the evidence and the actual data involved? Why aren't we looking at the predictions that were made and seeing if they match up to the results? If this is such an open and shut case, why are so many people who care about science skeptical? Many Americans have long since thought that the best scientific evidence available suggested that man wasn't causing any sort of global warming. However, now, we can go even further and suggest that the planet isn't warming at all.

1) There hasn't been any global warming since 1997: If nothing changes in the next year, we're going to have kids who graduate from high school who will have never seen any "global warming" during their lifetimes. That's right; the temperature of the planet has essentially been flat for 17 years. This isn't a controversial assertion either. Even the former Director of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, Phil Jones, admits that it's true. Since the planet was cooling from 1940-1975 and the upswing in temperature afterward only lasted 23 years, a 17 year pause is a big deal. It also begs an obvious question: How can we be experiencing global warming if there's no actual "global warming?"

2) There is no scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and caused by man: Questions are not decided by "consensus." In fact, many scientific theories that were once widely believed to be true were made irrelevant by new evidence. Just to name one of many, many examples, in the early seventies, scientists believed global cooling was occurring. However, once the planet started to warm up, they changed their minds. Yet, the primary "scientific" argument for global warming is that there is a "scientific consensus" that it's occurring. Setting aside the fact that's not a scientific argument, even if that ever was true (and it really wasn't), it's certainly not true anymore. Over 31,000 scientists have signed on to a petition saying humans aren't causing global warming. More than 1000 scientists signed on to another report saying there is no global warming at all. There are tens of thousands of well-educated, mainstream scientists who do not agree that global warming is occurring at all and people who share their opinion are taking a position grounded in science.

3) Arctic ice is up 50% since 2012: The loss of Arctic ice has been a big talking point for people who believe global warming is occurring. Some people have even predicted that all of the Arctic ice would melt by now because of global warming. Yet, Arctic ice is up 50% since 2012. How much Arctic ice really matters is an open question since the very limited evidence we have suggests that a few decades ago, there was less ice than there is today, but the same people who thought the drop in ice was noteworthy should at least agree that the increase is important as well.

4) Climate models showing global warming have been wrong over and over: These future projections of what global warming will do to the planet have been based on climate models. Essentially, scientists make assumptions about how much of an impact different factors will have; they guess how much of a change there will be and then they project changes over time. Unfortunately, almost all of these models showing huge temperature gains have turned out to be wrong.

Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer says that climate models used by government agencies to create policies “have failed miserably.” Spencer analyzed 90 climate models against surface temperature and satellite temperature data, and found that more than 95 percent of the models “have over-forecast the warming trend since 1979, whether we use their own surface temperature dataset (HadCRUT4), or our satellite dataset of lower tropospheric temperatures (UAH).”

There's an old saying in programming that goes, "Garbage in, garbage out." In other words, if the assumptions and data you put into the models are faulty, then the results will be worthless. If the climate models that show a dire impact because of global warming aren't reliable -- and they're not -- then the long term projections they make are meaningless.

5) Predictions about the impact of global warming have already been proven wrong: The debate over global warming has been going on long enough that we've had time to see whether some of the predictions people made about it have panned out in the real world. For example, Al Gore predicted all the Arctic ice would be gone by 2013. In 2005, the Independent ran an article saying that the Artic had entered a death spiral.

Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years....The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a “tipping point” beyond which nothing can reverse the continual loss of sea ice and with it the massive land glaciers of Greenland, which will raise sea levels dramatically.

Meanwhile, Arctic ice is up 50% since 2012. James Hansen of NASA fame predicted that the West Side Highway in New York would be under water by now because of global warming.

If the climate models and the predictions about global warming aren't even close to being correct, wouldn't it be more scientific to reject hasty action based on faulty data so that we can further study the issue and find out what's really going on?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: agw; algore; climate; cooling; kerry; un; warming
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1 posted on 02/18/2014 4:00:10 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Global Warming IS true...

And humans ARE the cause!!!












2 posted on 02/18/2014 4:23:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

On the snooze last night some woman said there is a 300% drop in the ice and that has caused a huge dip in the jet stream which is causing the crazy weather so global warming is causing all the snow and cold in the east and drought in the west. That’s their newest whopper


3 posted on 02/18/2014 4:25:01 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kaslin

Facts, shmacts.

But seriously, thanks for the links.


4 posted on 02/18/2014 4:25:11 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Kaslin

Global warming is happening for the same reason that the weeds will be burned in Matthew 13’s parable by Jesus.


5 posted on 02/18/2014 4:33:10 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: b4its2late

I imagine the idea of a “300%” drop sailed right over the heads of the earnest folks on the snooze.


6 posted on 02/18/2014 4:36:12 AM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Kaslin

If it’s “global” then scientists must take the temperature of the globe. One reading.

Averaging several readings doesn’t count. One reading. How’re they going to do that? With a long distance thermometer on the moon?

Get going scientists!


7 posted on 02/18/2014 4:50:01 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Kaslin

bttt


8 posted on 02/18/2014 5:07:32 AM PST by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: muir_redwoods; b4its2late

People are actually starting to use terms like “300% less” in conversation. Some seem to think it is nitpicking to object to such terms but if people are going to speak in meaningless language what is the point of talking to them? A different language can be interpreted or one could take classes to learn to speak it but a meaningless language is no more than grunts and squeals. “300% less” grates on the nerves of many of us more than the squealing of pigs does.

If they say “three times less” it makes no sense but it would seem safe to assume what they mean is 2/3 less or reduced to 1/3 of the original but “300% less” is indecipherable, a person is left wondering if THE WRITER even knew what was intended. Do these supposedly educated people have any idea how absurd they sound? Do those who accept this meaningless garbage and act as though they understand what is meant realize how absurd they look?


9 posted on 02/18/2014 5:37:56 AM PST by RipSawyer (No tagline added because I have switched to tackle.)
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To: Kaslin

One of the most compelling evidences of global warming was the shrinkage of glaciers worldwide. Haven’t heard if that trend has continued or reversed.


10 posted on 02/18/2014 5:41:21 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: I want the USA back

I don’t know what the actual accuracy of the temperature measurements may be but one thing seems certain, there is no way that someone takes the average temperature of the entire Earth over a full year and gets it correct to the second place to the right of the decimal as some of these reports show. That has to be ridiculous. This claimed accuracy alone seems enough to discredit the whole thing.


11 posted on 02/18/2014 5:42:33 AM PST by RipSawyer (No tagline added because I have switched to tackle.)
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To: RipSawyer

Let’s see...

If I have one hundred bucks in my pocket, and I spend 99% of it, I then have $1 left.

If I spend 100% of it, then it’s all gone.

If I spend 300% of it; then I owe someone two hundred bucks!


12 posted on 02/18/2014 5:52:26 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free
One of the most compelling evidences of global warming was the shrinkage of glaciers worldwide.

No; it was NOT worldwide; but a cherry picked assortment of them.

Folks ASSUMED it was worldwide; just what the deceivers wanted.

13 posted on 02/18/2014 5:53:54 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: I want the USA back

I have a suggestion as to where they can stick the thermometer. D.C. If it’s “that” type of thermometer.


14 posted on 02/18/2014 5:58:02 AM PST by spudville
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Polar ice has increased by 50% in a year’s time, and it’s thicker.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2524770/ESA-satellite-reveals-polar-ice-INCREASED-50-year.html


15 posted on 02/18/2014 6:14:21 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: b4its2late
The current case for climate change makes about as much sense as claiming changes in the wind are man made. Yes there is wind. Yes it changes.

Yes there is climate change. Such changes are called seasons. The high and low peaks in temperature, moisture, and wind direction and speed are what we simple folks call fluctuations in those climate related phenomenon, as the weather.

16 posted on 02/18/2014 6:17:02 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: RipSawyer

It drives me nuts.


17 posted on 02/18/2014 7:20:00 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: blackdog

Correct.


18 posted on 02/18/2014 7:32:38 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kaslin

This is all about control. Population control, to be exact. They call God a liar when He commanded we be fruitful and multiply. They obviously know better than Him. Just as them.


19 posted on 02/18/2014 7:41:43 AM PST by afsnco
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To: Elsie
No; it was NOT worldwide; but a cherry picked assortment of them. Folks ASSUMED it was worldwide; just what the deceivers wanted.

They got me on that one. To be clear, I'm not saying that man has caused climate change. However, melting glaciers exposing things hidden for thousands of years is evidence of at least a local climate change. If those glaciers are now extending, then even this point would be removed from the anti-man, anti-God environmentalists.

20 posted on 02/18/2014 8:33:21 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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