Posted on 01/08/2010 8:50:45 PM PST by neverdem
The story of manmade global warming is over. In reality it never existed except in the minds and hearts of grant-seeking scientists and academics, ratings-obsessed television networks and their misinformed viewers and opportunistic eco-activists.
That said, climate change is real. The earth has been coming out of a 450-year cold era known as the “Little Ice Age” since it bottomed out in the late 1600s. Hundreds of studies have verified the existence of this cold period. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tried to erase the climate history of the last 1,000 years in its 2001 report. They replaced all the peer-reviewed studies of past climate with one that fit their needs. The now-discredited “hockey stick” graph showed virtually no significant change in temperature of the world over the last 1,000 years. Conveniently, the graph then showed a rapid and abrupt increase in global temperature during the last 100 years. This is, of course, due to our sin of burning fossil fuels and stoking the fires of global warming.
The only evidence that human activity is causing global warming comes from computer models. These models take what the people who develop them know about how the earth’s climate system works and attempt to predict the future. Computer models are not evidence. Evidence is something real, something concrete that is not subject to change. Computer models can be changed by their creator. In fact the creator of the model can make it say whatever the creator wants it to say by adjusting parameters. That is not evidence.
In 2007, a study showed the failings of computer model forecasts. The models showed that there exists a global warming “fingerprint” in the air. This fingerprint is a dramatic warming of the atmosphere, not on the ground, but 20,000 to 50,000 feet in the air above the tropics. The 2007 study revealed that real-world temperature observations by weather balloons over a 50-year period showed no global warming fingerprint at all, none. The computer models had grossly overestimated the warming over the tropics. Real world observations trump computer models. Despite this revelation the climate alarmists continued to trumpet the coming doom if we don’t change our sinful ways. To do otherwise would threaten government grants to colleges and universities, research facilities and government agencies. Large corporations are developing eco-friendly technologies to replace fossil fuels and brokerage houses are looking to cash in big time on the evolving carbon trading markets. The United Nations is looking to use climate treaties to wrestle control of carbon emissions from independent nations. This will elevate the United Nations and its leaders to the role of effectively ruling the world’s energy consumption through one world-government authority.
The greenhouse/global warming theory states that as more carbon dioxide is pumped into the air, the atmosphere’s ability to vent excess heat to space will diminish. This is the mantra of global warming alarmism. More carbon dioxide means more heat gets clogged up in the climate system and the earth gets warmer and warmer. From this we have conjured up all the various climate disasters, movies, concerts, fixes, and swindles, with their varied political and economic benefactors and victims.
Enter 2009 and a new study by Dr. Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi from MIT that uses temperature data from satellites. As background we start with the predictions. The climate models say that as the oceans warmed by one degree Celsius from the 1980s into the 1990s, the amount of heat escaping to space would decrease. More heat would be trapped in the atmosphere, ultimately due to the burning of fossil fuels. The warming of the oceans was natural and part of the large multi-decadal temperature changes that have been known for years. Now if only we had a way to measure the amount of heat going out to space, then we could get some answers. We do, it’s called the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Satellite (ERBE). It was in orbit above the earth measuring outgoing long wave radiation (heat) for 16 years from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. This is very significant. Now we had a tool, and real world data, that we could compare to the computer model predictions. It is the ultimate climate system umpire.
The results from the Lindzen and Choi study were stunning. The computer models, all 11 of them, predicted that as the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the amount of heat escaping to space should decrease by 3 watts per square meter. If this were true, then the theory of manmade global warming would have a strong footing. But the satellite data used by the Lindzen and Choi inflicted a bone crushing blow to this assumption. As the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the measurements showed that the amount of heat escaping to space increased by 4 watts per square meter from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. All the computer models were wrong. If the atmosphere is not trapping heat generated by warming oceans then there is no manmade global warming taking place.
The atmosphere compensated for the additional heat by opening the window a little more. The theory of global warming is lying on the canvas bloodied and dying. Alarmists will attempt to revive the carcass with even louder cries of impending doom and calls to repent. But this clamoring will fall on deaf ears. Science will ultimately prove the winner and the world will bury global warming in an icy grave where it belongs.
Art Horn is a meteorologist who has worked for CBS, NBC and ABC
Have you followed the story of at least the threat of a quo tom suit against Dr. Mann and his Penn State colleagues for obtaining federal funds through fraud? I’ll be interested in following that one. It’s a start.
I get too angry. These cretins need to go away for good. They were willing to sell us down the river and I’ll be danged if I’ll turn the other cheek.
Global warming never was real and the people who are pushing know it. It is all about the envirowhackos believing that man is somehow killing the planet. Never mind that no matter how madly we screw up the environment, SOMETHING will survive, and, if you believe in evolution, life will continue and eventually, there will the tens of thousands of new species.
What is really sad about all of this global warming shit is that BILLIONS of dollars...probably HUNDREDS of billions...have bees wasted on worthless junk—that does not provide any benefit at all—other than to line pockets!! Now..this same money COULD have been put to some good use, such as perfecting SOFC (solid oxide fuel cells), fusion power, superconductivity, nanotechnology, and such. ALL of those things would have drastically helped the energy situation here in this country—and TRULY reduced “fossil fuel” use. Instead, countless, worthless “impact studies” dead—end things such as wind power, solar power, “friendly” light bulbs(which are NOT), “ozone safe” A/C(which ISN’T)..and so on.
So...for our probably 300 billion over the last 30 years, maybe more-—we got “green light bulbs” and hybrid cars...and “cap and trade”. What a pathetic sham!!
“All part of the big plan”.
"For those out there seeing any talk of a human warming influence as a hoax, it’s also useful to note that this intellectual tussle over climate sensitivity is over how much human-produced greenhouse gases will warm the world, not if they can do so."
Sounds like Art Horn can't keep a job...
That’s exactly what I am talking about. Bernie defrauded a relative few compared to the global scam that AlGore and his cronies have run!
If you accept their premise that human activity is changing the planets temperature, then all the programs and regulations that have been implemented up until now, have actually lowered the planets temperature. They were regulating CO2 production because unregulated CO2 production would cause warming, so therefore, they lowered the temperature of the planet. We could sue them for the losses during the cold spells. The only defenses they would have is that AGW was a lie or that natural cycles are far more significant then AGW.
Thanks for the link. How do you have a greenhouse when we have a basically open system?
bump!
I guess someone better tell Mr. What's-His-Face Hansen about this.
LOL!
Great research to refute the massive Fraud! AlWhore is shown to be the outrageous LIAR that he is.
Red/yellow is above-normal temps and blue is below-normal?
They had the Flintstones back then?
The usual suspects have failed to get the message and have egg on their faces.
Awful doomsday program on satellite yesterday carrying on about the grim disaters looming due to global warming.
I almost feel bad for them.
NOT!
The fact that we are in an interglacial period is a fact, and has always been; it's a period of gradually changing climate, just as donzens of previous cycles.
Why this particular one has been so socially traumatic is purely political.
And the contribution of AGW is still a long way from "settled."
The very notion of s static-climate earth is preposterous. In hindsight, any sane person must have seen it.
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