Posted on 11/02/2009 11:36:04 AM PST by Signalman
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says, “Unless we fight climate change, unless we stop this trend, we’ll have devastating consequences for humanity.”
Other leaders make similar silly statements. Obama claims the “threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing.”
But which way is it growing? Which trend are they going to stop? The one predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the one Mother Nature is providing? They’ve chosen the IPCC even though all their predictions (scenarios) are wrong. But it is worse. Global temperatures of the last few years are impossible according to the ‘science’ of the (IPCC).
What’s Actually Happening?
Temperatures were predicted to increase but are declining (Figure 1). Even their lowest scenario says the world should be at least 0.3¬∞C warmer. Doesn’t sound like much but it equals half the warming they claim occurred in the preceding 130 years.
As physicist David Douglass said, “If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.”
Facts Contradict Hypothesis
Many people pointed to facts contradicting the “appealing” hypothesis but were ignored or marginalized for several reasons. These included; apparent support from rising global temperatures between 1980 and 1998; evidence too technical for most people; effective personal attacks on skeptics; Gore’s slick propaganda movie An Inconvenient Truth despite 35 scientific errors; and the mainstream media was ignorant of the science and biased.
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I don’t know or care about the science. I’m just glad I got the new porch/greenhouse built because global warming is apparently making it too cool and wet to grow tomatoes in Michigan.
Can I get my money back on my new thermometer since the numbers it shows me are impossible, therefore it mus be broken?
Figure 1: Global average temperature 2002 to 2009 and IPCC scenarios.
Arctic ice extent is poised to reach its lowest-ever amount tomorrow, Nov. 5th if today’s trend holds for 24 hours.
AMSU-A temps at 600MB (ch 05) also took a sharp turn upward on today’s graph.
2009 is on track to be the 1st or 2nd hottest year ever.
Arctic ice extent is poised to reach its lowest-ever amount tomorrow, [for the date:] Nov. 5th if today’s trend holds for 24 hours.
AMSU-A temps at 600MB (ch 05) also took a sharp turn upward on today’s graph.
2009 is on track to be the 1st or 2nd hottest year ever.
What have you been smoking?
Yesterday, the 6th saw the Arctic lowest ice extent, falling some 27,000 sq. km. below 2007 on the same day.
UAH Oct temps show a 0.28F increase from last year.
El Nino shows a rise in temp, too.
I simply follow this stuff; I’m not in the cheerleading business.
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