Posted on 11/25/2015 6:35:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A panel of prominent scientists debunked one of the most popular global warming arguments ahead of a major United Nations climate summit to take place in Paris later this month.
The scientists slammed policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as “nonsense,†and they criticized politicians and activists for claiming the world was on the path for catastrophic global warming.
“The most important thing to keep in mind is — when you ask ‘is it warming, is it cooling’, etc. — is that we are talking about something tiny (temperature changes) and that is the crucial point,†Dr. Richard Lindzen, a veteran climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“We are speaking of small changes 0.25 Celcius would be about 51% of the recent warming and that strongly suggests a low and inconsequential climate sensitivity — meaning no problem at all,†said Lindzen, who is also a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute.
President Barack Obama and his activist allies are calling for U.N. delegates to sign onto a global treaty to reduce CO2 emissions. Obama has been heavily pushing for this treaty for the past year or so, even lobbying the Chinese government to sign onto an agreement.
“Policies to slow CO2 emissions are really based on nonsense,†Dr. Will Happer, a physicist at Princeton University, said during the panel Thursday hosted by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation.
“They are all based on computer models that do not work. We are being led down a false path,†Happer argued.
Scientists and environmentalists have added urgency to the U.N. climate summit by arguing 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record based on surface temperature readings. Scientists warned this month Earth has warmed 1 degree Celsius since the late 1800s.
But Lindzen and his fellow panelists said claims of the hottest year on record are “nonsense†because there’s so much uncertainty surrounding surface temperature readings — especially since scientists often make lots of adjustments to weather station readings.
“When someone points to this and says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? It’s just nonsense,†Lindzen said. “This is a very tiny change period. And they are arguing over hundredths of a degree when it is uncertain in tenths of a degree.â€
“And the proof that the uncertainty is tenths of a degree are the adjustments that are being made,†Lindzen added. “If you can adjust temperatures to 2/10ths of a degree, it means it wasn’t certain to 2/10ths of a degree.â€
As the world speeds towards Paris, Republicans have ramped up efforts to stop President Obama from being able to carry out his global warming agenda and impose a U.N. treaty on Americans.
Senate Republicans have passed two resolutions opposing carbon dioxide regulations on power plants, and lawmakers introduced a resolution opposed to any U.N. agreement Obama signs onto at the Paris climate summit.
“We are dealing with pure political propaganda that has nothing to do with science,†Dr. Patrick Moore, an ecologist and the co-founder of Greenpeace, said of attempts to fight global warming during Thursday’s panel.
“We know for absolute certain that carbon dioxide is the stuff of life, the foundation for life on earth,†Moore said. “CO2 has provided the basis of life for at least 3.5 billion years.â€
Great article with the French quotations.
Deaths from CO2 - 0
Deaths from Islam - 300 million
What’s the greater danger?
Thank you for the post.
My truck gets 9.2MPG.... I really don’t give a damn about global warming or climate change.
CO2 is our friend. Whooo Hoooo
“My truck gets 9.2MPG....”
I saw this little tard driving a Tesla with Texas plates
“CO2-LOL” and I thought, now there’s someone who is a
bigger ass than the Obama.
Why did you have to go and shed light on reality. /s
How about >>
Deaths caused by socialism / communism IN PREVIOUS CENTURY - 200 million
The even greater danger.
No smoking hot spot1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
This is a religion for the Warmist cult.
[[‘Nonsense’: Top Scientists Demolish Alarmism Behind UN Climate Summit]]
Nonsense: Casual internet user demolishes alarmism behind Climate Hoax with two lines
“0.0036% of our atmosphere is incapable of causing any change in climate whatsoever- period!”
“Climates always change FIRST 800 to 1400 years BEFORE CO2 rises, so how is it that CO2 causes climate change?”
IF the UN climate change conference can’t explain either o those two issues- then they have no business claiming man is causing climate change
[[Scientists and environmentalists have added urgency to the U.N. climate summit by arguing 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record based on surface temperature readings.]]
Which turns out to be false because NASA has been fudging the results
[[German Professor: NASA Has Fiddled Climate Data On ‘Unbelievable’ Scale]]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3364483/posts
[[As the world speeds towards Paris, Republicans have ramped up efforts to stop President Obama from being able to carry out his global warming agenda and impose a U.N. treaty on Americans.]]
Bahahahahahahaha- Republicans are going to ‘stop the president from carrying out his agenda”?
Bahahahahahaha- Yep- sure they are! They’ve doen a marvelous job stopping him on numerous issues already..... oh wait=- no they haven’t!
So, pray tell, how much have the seas risen in the last 20-30 years?
sea levels have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that man’s production of CO2 amounts to just 0.0036% of the atmosphere and is an amount far too small to do anything regarding climate change- this one fact alone is enough to put the lie to ‘man-caused’ climate change- Sea levels are a non issue because man is not causing the ice to melt- Natural cyclical warming trends caused by sun spots are the cause, as is El Niño which also has nothing to do with the small amount of CO2 in atmosphere by man
knowing thier funding will probably not be in danger come 2017 they are dumping the agenda 21 rat protocol
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