Scientists baffled by global warming's time-out

salon.com ^ | Nov. 20, 2009 | Gerald Traufetter

[Waco]

Is algores’ jail cell ready yet?

[tobyhill]

This is funny, “global warming’s time-out”. It's called Winter.

[DouglasKC]

Temperatures haven't risen this decade, as climatologists expected. Is it sunspots? Ocean currents? Secret volcano?

Stupidity? Fraud? Deceit? Anti-capitalism?

[pallis]

Some “scientist” are having problems with the problems of believing in global warming. However, some “scientist,” who believe we are entering a long term cooling cycle, are wisely buying coats and property in Florida. It’s all a matter of weather, whether or not the weather is hot or cold. ...Remember, Algore is a lying, scumbag, scam artist.

[TurtleUp]

Scientists are not baffled. Scientists are always looking to understand the world based on data, and they are thrilled to have new data that will allow them to expand their understanding - a linear trend doesn’t allow much separation between linear CO2 and other linear contributors, while the non-linearity will finally allow those who seek answers to find them. It’s politicians who are baffled. Unfortunately, a lot of people who have jobs that used to be science are now just politicians.

[Niuhuru]

This is what happens when we let celebs run the global agenda. Everyone knows that celebs freak out over the latest trendy everything. It’s only recently that world leaders have taken them seriously.

[Deb]

Wow! A sunspot graphic! Bitchin’.

[C210N]

what few sunspots appear this year, they are quite small... you gotta squint a bit to see today's spot:

[Archon of the East]

Yea its a real shock for sure unless of course you have a smidgen of common sense.

[Darksheare]

It’s also been recent years where people have actually thought that celebs knew anything.
Judging from the box office bombs, you’d think people would know better.

[ConfidentConservative]

I thought I found a really nice sun spot until I wiped off the “sneeze” on my monitor.

[-YYZ-]

The big issue here is that the best climate models these guys have failed to at all predict the cooling trend of the last 10 years - the same models that we are supposed to believe in when they tell us what the climate is going to do 10, 20, 50 or 100 years from now. AGW may yet turn out to be a correct theory, but as I’ve said all along, I think these models need to make predictions that are then corroborated by actual observations before I will consider taking them seriously. Never before in history have so many been asked to change the way they live so drastically based on nothing but a theory - a theory that is apparently not very well developed, in a science that hasn’t existed for all that long. Theoretical science is great when it deals with things far removed from the everyday, like cosmology or paleontology, which if they turn out to be wrong have real impact on most people’s lives.

[Ancesthntr]

Is algores’ jail cell ready yet?

I'm just waiting for the report someday that his house burned down (hopefully with no one in it, of course). Some wiseacre will blame it on Globull Worming.

[MNJohnnie]

They are called SUNSPOTS. They go in cycles. When there are a lot of them, the Earth gets warmer. When there are fewer of them the Earth get’s cooler. No mystery too it as an real scientist knows.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[norwaypinesavage]

Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."

Real scientists are not forced to "face facts". Real scientists observe facts and make conclusions. This guy is admitting that the "facts" don't agree with his preconceived notions. He is hardly a real scientist.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Idiots!

There isn't enough CO2 in the atmosphere to form a layer.

If I'm wrong...where is it?