Posted on 10/01/2009 6:31:08 AM PDT by xtinct
Plateau in Temperatures ....Adds Difficulty to Task....Of Reaching a Solution...
--In response to New York Times (9/23/09)
In this headline on a story about difficulties confronting people alarmed about global warming, note the word “plateau.” It dismisses the unpleasant - to some people - fact that global warming is maddeningly (to the same people) slow to vindicate their apocalyptic warnings about it.
The “difficulty” - the “intricate challenge,” the Times says - is “building momentum” for carbon reduction “when global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.”
Further down in the story, a “few years” became “the next decade or so,” according to Mojib Latif, a German “prize-winning climate and ocean scientist.” Actually, Latif has said he anticipates “maybe even two” decades in which temperatures cool. But stay with the Times’ “decade or so.” By asserting that the absence of significant warming since 1998 is a mere “plateau,” the Times assures readers: Do not despair, bad news will resume.
The Times reported that “scientists” - all of them? - say the 11 years of temperature stability has “no bearing,” none, on long-term warming. And “scientists” say that “trying to communicate such scientific nuances to the public - and to policymakers - can be frustrating.”
The Times says “a short-term trend gives ammunition to skeptics of climate change.” Actually, what makes skeptics skeptical is the accumulating evidence that theories predicting catastrophe from man-made climate change are impervious to evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Others making money off this scam --> Gore, obviously!! and General Electric aka NBC.
Don’t those 10 years correspond to Bush being in office.....Bush did it! Bush solved global warming....hail to the king!
Mr. Will touches on the problem: anthropogenic global warming is unfalsifiable, and thus is not even a scientific theory.
Worse, the discovery of outright fraud perpetrated by the AGW crowd is shaking the foundations of their non-science: Treemometers: A new scientific scandal.
The left would do well to learn from the religion the despise so greatly. Plenty of stories of fire-breathin' preachers precisely predicting the end of world only to have God prove otherwise. The sad part about it is that the True Believers keep on believing.
The absence of Clinton's hot air.
Also, note at this site the still quiet sun and the growing arctic ice extent over the past few years.
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