“The reality is that the earth has not warmed since 1998 and even the global warming nuts acknowledge that we are going to have a cooling trend thru 2015.”
The reality is that you have no idea what you’re talking about. Yes, there are natural variations in temperature, and El Nino likely contributed to 1998’s record heat, just as other natural oscillations have reversed that trend. But overall, natural variation is being overidden by something else, and that something is man-made. The trend toward increasing warming HAS NOT STOPPED. See:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
for example.
I realize that this is not a politically correct opinion within this group, which allows nonsense such as “how could ‘Ice Road Truckers’ be filmed if there was really global warming?” to go unchallenged, but conservatives need to wake up and start doing something about this problem instead of ceding it to the liberals and their big government solutions.
Newbie, you are barking up the wrong tree. There are plenty of charts and data that refute your contention. And the question is: What is causing the "warming" and can man control climate change? And what constitutes a trend in terms of global climate change?
In the 1970's, the consensus of scientists was that we were headed into a new ice age. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Please elucidate how GISS is constructed (see climateaudit.org for example).
El Nino neither creates nor destroys heat, just transports it. Only the Sun adds heat and only radiation out to space removes it. If extra heat exists it must be hiding somewhere and can be measured. Where?
