Global Warming: On Hold? (Scientists Mystefied at lack of Warming)

Discovery ^ | March 2, 2009 | Michael Reilly

[CedarDave]

These “scientists” are coming up with as many reasons to explain the current cold snap as medieval astronomers did to explain why Galileo’s telescope showed movement of the planets that couldn’t be explained with the earth being the center of the universe. The answer is the same as it was back then —the SUN!!

[MrB]

As I told a person who was crestfallen when I stated that the earth has COOLED over the last ten years:

“Don’t worry, the true goals remain the same. Whether it’s global warming, the coming ice age, overpopulation, or some other impending disaster, someone will be able to use it to advance the cause of global socialism.”

[SnakeDoctor]

>> Earth’s climate continues to confound scientists.

A concise 6-word summary of why nobody should’ve bought into “global warming” in the first place. Scientists haven’t a clue about how climate works, much less how the exhaust from my Jeep might affect it. The system is simply too complex for even the greatest human minds.

SnakeDoc

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"sinetists mystified"

mmm hmm. that's because they don't know jack.

same reason as always.

assumptions built apon hypotheses built apon models.

no REAL science could behave like that, only POLITICAL science, where the main output is political/cultural manipulation, eg globaloney & evolution.

you'd never catch a real scientist in a field that MATTERS behaving like these bozos do.




(just because it's cool)

[wbill]

It is possible that a fraction of the most recent rapid warming since the 1970's was due to a free variation in climate," Isaac Held of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Princeton, New Jersey wrote in an email to Discovery News. "Suggesting that the warming might possibly slow down or even stagnate for a few years before rapid warming commences again."

Absolutely amazing. What a religion GW must be, to cause "scientists" to throw out contrary data?

So, to recap...

Temps go up = Global Warming

Temps stay the same = Global Warming

Temps go down = Wait for Global Warming

[ully2]

Earth Science isn’t science its fudging the facts to fit into your preconceived story.

[ari-freedom]

"Thirty years of greenhouse gas radiative forcing will still be there and then bang, the warming will return and be very aggressive."

[Brett66]

Cooling events since then had firm causes, like eruptions or large-magnitude La Ninas. This current cooling doesn't have one

Low sunspot activity, but that would mean that human activity has nothing to do with climate change.

Can't quite swallow that bitter pill, can ya?

[CedarDave]

“cool” blog here http://wattsupwiththat.com/

And here, too:

[Ol Rob]

“Swanson thinks the trend could continue for up to 30 years. But he warned that it’s just a hiccup, and that humans’ penchant for spewing greenhouse gases will certainly come back to haunt us.”
This is merely a weak attempt to move the goal posts. A fall-back plan to extend the charade for a generation.

[Cicero]

They are committed to global warming. It has put the profession of “weather man” on the front burner, given them fame fortune, and led to huge commitments of research grants.

Does anyone imagine that this growing profession wants to shrink bank again and become a few guys on the radio who tell you whether or not to carry an umbrella to work? What would happen to all those expanding departments of meteorological science at our universities? What would happen to the climatologists at NASA?

What, divert a huge part of NASA’s budget to telling people whether or not to put on their raincoats when they leave for the train station? No more end of the world stuff? No more prime time news?

[gridlock]

The guy who comes up with the mathematical model that blames global cooling on excess western consumerism will be the next AlGore.

[aruanan]

Global Warming: On Hold? (Scientists Mystefied at lack of Warming)

More accurately: Global Warming: On Hold? (Global Warming Partisan Scientists Mystefied at lack of Warming, Everyone Else Is Not)

[Deb]

Global warming takes a holiday!!

Seeing a chart of all the satellites and space debris in orbit, it's hard not to think it might have some effect on something. Hey, I think that makes me an expert!

[JasonC]

"Thirty years of greenhouse gas radiative forcing will still be there"

OK I'll bite. Be where? By what law of physics can this "waxy build up" theory be defended as anything but utter superstition? Where's the heat in the meantime - in the great computer model in the sky?

[RobinOfKingston]

Kyle Swanson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said. "Cooling events since then had firm causes, ... This current cooling doesn't have one."

Au contrair! Kyle just hasn't identified the cause, and likely never will. Something as complex as climate will always have un-understood components to it.

[gridlock]

Scientists Mystefied by Brassiere Hook...

[Interesting Times]

"But just what's causing the cooling is a mystery."

[JasonC]

"They can only ignore the data for so long"

Socialists have ignored the data on capitalism for 200 years. Read the latest budget. They can ignore reality indefinitely, and they will.

The only question before the house is when the rest of us finally get around to ignoring them.

[kidd]

Scientists don’t understand long-term temperature trends.

But we better close all coal-fired power plants, give Algore as many awards as we can think of, and establish a global carbon trading scheme anyway.

I’ve wondered if temperature trends show cooling: will we build as many coal-fired power plants as we can, make people buy SUVs and make CFL/LED lightbulbs illegal? Instead of “going green”, will the new trend be to “go brown”?