Posted on 10/13/2009 5:29:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
"What happened to global warming?" read the headline -- on BBC News on Oct. 9, no less. Consider it a cataclysmic event: Mainstream news organizations have begun reporting on scientific research that suggests that global warming may not be caused by man and may not be as dire and eminent as alarmists suggest.
Indeed, as the BBC's climate correspondent Paul Hudson reported, the warmest year recorded globally "was not in 2008 or 2007, but 1998." It's true, he continued, "For the last 11 years, we have not observed any increase in global temperatures."
At a London conference later this month, Hudson reported, solar scientist Piers Corbyn will present evidence that solar-charged particles have a big impact on global temperatures.
Western Washington University geologist Don J. Easterbrook presented research last year that suggests that the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) caused warmer temperatures in the 1980s and 1990s. With Pacific sea surface temperatures cooling, Easterbrook expects 30 years of global cooling.
EPA analyst Alan Carlin -- an MIT-trained economist with a degree in physics -- referred to "solar variability" and Easterbrook's work in a document that warned that politics had prompted the EPA and other countries to pay "too little attention to the science of global warming" as partisans ignored the lack of global warming over the last 10 years. At first, the EPA buried the paper, then it permitted Carlin to post it on his personal Web site.
In May, Fortune reported on the testimony of University of Alabama-Huntsville Earth System Science Center Director John Christy's before the House Ways and Means Committee. Christy is a 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report signatory who believes human effects have a warming influence, but rejects the disaster scenarios.
As Christy told the committee, climate models rely on land temperature data that are distorted and exaggerated by surface development -- that is, asphalt and buildings. In a nice bit of research, Christy, who is also the Alabama state climatologist, debunked the temperature-increase predictions made by NASA scientist James Hansen in 1988. "The real atmosphere," Christy testified, "has many ways to respond to the changes that the extra CO2 is forcing upon it."
Add Christy, Easterbrook and Corbyn to the long list of scientists who see climate as a complex issue rather than an opportunity to sermonize and lecture the general public.
Over the years, global warming alarmists have sought to stifle debate by arguing that there was no debate. They bullied dissenters and ex-communicated non-believers from their panels. In the name of science, disciples made it a virtue to not recognize the existence of scientists such as MIT's Richard Lindzen and Colorado State University's William Gray.
For a long time, that approach worked. But after 11 years without record temperatures that had the seas spilling over the Statue of Liberty's toes, they are going to have to change tactics.
They're going to have to rely on real data, not failed models, scare stories and the Big Lie that everyone who counts agrees with them.
It's not too late to call national media organizations by their deserved name, "GWAMMIES" -- Global Warming Alarmist Media.
And to the so called earthers...
Look at the facts and not the fiction.
Take heed of those smarter than you that
came before.
Recognize a concept called “seasons”
and in the greater context, the earth moves??
Why our politicians are so abismally inept at simple earth science is beyond me.
To believe that exhaling is killing the planet
means to me,
destroy the liberal exhalers as soon as possible.
Leave our earth to rational humans.
The nutjobs in washington are so far removed from reality.
It’s OK for them to take jet trips to conferences in lovely off-shore locations.
But put them into a Somolia, Afganinstan, Iraq, situation and they are nothing but WIMPS.
I say vote the bastards out. NOW
Any idiot-male, female, repub or demo, lib or conseravative, if they have not taken the time to understand
relatively simple earth concepts and elect to support stupid legislation, they need to be dispatched.
Sorry for the ranting. But I think you would agree that it gets trying at some times.
LOL. Eminent but not imminent. Oh, I do like that.
They already did
Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data
In mid-August the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) disclosed that it had destroyed the raw data for its global surface temperature data set because of an alleged lack of storage space.
I could get a great deal of pleasure from blowing up and destroying a Prius.
Of course you couldn't have a Prius demo derby because of the potential of battery explosions.
On the other hand if you did it by remote control...like those gas powered model cars....Hmmmm
Think of the sparks and hydrogen explosions!
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