"But just what's causing the cooling is a mystery."
“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.
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?
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!
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?
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.
"But just what's causing the cooling is a mystery."
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”?
Well, Kyle, perhaps you're just not looking in the right places for your "firm causes."
What it says, though -- as has been rather obvious for a long time -- is that all of the climate model-based hysteria is unwarranted.
There is no mystery if you correlate global temperature changes to something that actually affects it, such as solar activity rather than CO2 concentrations which doesn’t.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/from:2002/to:2009/plot/wti/from:2002/to:2009/trend
Global temperatures have DECLINED since 2002, they have not “remained flat”.
In the mean time, solar activity remains low, could there be a connection between Earth’s heat source and global temperature?
The obvious question is: Over what period?
18,000 years ago Cleveland and Detroit were under 3 miles of ice. Now they are on the Great lakes.
Has it warmed since then? Obviously.
Was it caused by man? Obviously not.
Has it warmed over the past 10 years? No it has cooled. Was it caused by man? No.
My prediction...
Temps will fall causing lowering of atmospheric CO2 (cooler bodies of water can retain more CO2 in dilution than warmer water. When this happens the ‘global cooling’ will be hailed as a success of BHO and his energy policies..
Does this mean Al has to give back his speaking fees?
To the unscrupulous, it's not a problem at all--they just ignore it, or make it up as they go along.
*******Global Warming doesn’t exist, dumbasses!!!******
Thing is until the $money dries up, they will keep preaching
I thought it was because sunspots were lessening. Or maybe it's just because weather is cyclical.
No! No! No! If the government would give me a 3.5 million dollar grant I will prove the Earth is spinning out of control and away from the sun and it was all caused by American consumerism.
This has been verified as an experimental hypothesis: Lack of sunspots (the current situation) means less magnetic activity of the sun, which means more cosmic rays hitting the earth, which means more clouds.
The most inconvenient truth (irony intended) of the global warming scam is that there is no actual scientific evidence that human activities have any measurable effect.
1. Our present mean world temperatures are solidly in the middle of a typical uptrend in the pattern that has existed for thousands of years.
2. We are nowhere near the highs that existed in historical (recorded history) times - and there is nothing in actual data to suggest we are about to soar out of the normal range.
3. The term “computer models” refers to computer programs written by global warming advocates, funded by grants from global warming activists with the grant contingent upon a “threat to the survival of the human race” result. A computer program, source code unavailable, fed with data based on hypothesis rather than empirical data, reported at conventions of groups seeking more global warming by potential beneficiaries of taxpayer research money is AT BEST highly suspect!
4. The “scientific consensus” is made up of some scientists, most of whom are direct beneficiaries of global warming research money, as well as hundreds of “concerned citizens” from Hollywood, and other democratic AlGore type groups. -— The “consensus” does not admit the existance of an opposing scientific group of over 31,000 actual scientists, almost 10,000 of whom are PHDs, mostly in directly related fields who disagree.
5. The pegging of global warming to CO2 is a desperate “hail mary” because the only observable correlation of anything affected by man to global temperature change is the fact that the two move together. THE BIG LIE completely ignores that the temperature numbers reverse direction at highs and lows several hundred years before the CO2 swings.. In other words todays CO2 figures are the result of the tempertature that existed several hundred years ago. Algore claims that the caboose goes around the curve before the engine!
6. In any highly polarized debate, one reliable indication of which side is dishonest is the “conversion factor” of knowledgeable parties who explore the research. Just as in the case of gun control advocacy, almost all global warming position reversals are from left to right........
Finally, actual numbers have trended down for the last decade, despite several “going up!” false alarms attributed to “honest mistakes and equipment malfunctions.” The very unusual anomaly in recent sunspot activity suggests we may be entering another “Maunder minimum” pattern. Not yet proof, but suggests possibility of a repetition of a “little ice age.” If that proves to be what is happening the squandering of billions on global warming theology of “An Inconvenient Truth” may prove exponentially more fatal than “Silent Spring.”
Rachel Carson killed roughly 50 million in the third world by malaria. Al Gore may wind up killing 20 times that by starvation..