Beam me to Planet Gore !
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.
Things seem to be cooling off. Obviously need more CO2. How about a Cash for Prius program. Turn in your Prius and get money toward a large SUV.
You’re fast. LOL
When the temps start dropping, liberals change the term to “Global climate change”.
It is a joke....This has been the coldest 2 summers in a hundred years...I guess nature took care of Al Gore. Thank you Mother Nature!!!
Don’t worry, Congress will continue along their course to shut down oil and coil production. They don’t need facts, they’re Congress!
According to the data, CO2 doesn’t seem to be having much effect on global temperatures... hmmm...
what to do?
How are the lefties going to be able to control people’s energy consumption (and therefore their very lives) without this pretext?
I know, they’ll just continue to lie about it. That’s worked well for them in the past.
It is global warmers own damn fault. They tauted these yearly measurements as a sure sign that the globe was warming, not they are stuck with it. No matter how hard they try to attack these yearly numbers as not proving anything, years of saying otherwise comes back to haunt them.
The earths warming cycle ended in 1998.
During the last cooling off cycle, we were warned about The Coming Ice Age, and the commies tried to take over everything they could get their hands on back then, too. They didn't make it in time for the warming up cycle.
They changed their propaganda to "Opps! We made a mistake. The Earth is heating up, and we're all going to die by fire if you don't give up all your freedoms - fast!"
That cycle ended in 1998. Now, they can't go back to the Ice Age, nor can they keep claiming we're all going to die by fire. They've already used those two threats.
Lately, it's been climate change. That way, they can frighten us with "temperature moderation." It'll buy them some time to come up with something new. This cooling off cycle will last about 20 more years, so I'm sure they'll think of something sooner or later. Tell your kids to get ready for it.
Like good liberals always do, they overplay their hand.
Obama: “If things go business-as-usual, we will not live, we will die.” In his speech to the UN on climate change.
Prime Minister Hatoyama: “The 2016 games could be the last Olympics due to climate change.”
Oh Glow-Bill Warming is eminent all right (seeing as climate alarmists are sponsored by the globalist financial elite), but it's not imminent.
So 0bama mucked up his last shot for good and all, then.
Like Hoplophobia, Warmism is a cult. As with any cult, it is aggressively determined to shut-out any outside thought and its members are willing to die for its beliefs.
Reality is this...
Sooooo, what happened to the "battered coastlines," "killer hurricanes" and the "rising oceans?"
The curse of spell check strikes again.
The messiah was elected! He told us the earth would begin to heal and the oceans would stop rising. As it is written so shall it be done.
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