World may not be warming, say scientists

Times Online ^ | February 14, 2010 | Jonathan Leake

[annalex]

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“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.

“The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.”

The IPCC faces similar criticisms from Ross McKitrick, professor of economics at the University of Guelph, Canada, who was invited by the panel to review its last report.

The experience turned him into a strong critic and he has since published a research paper questioning its methods.

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a weather station at Manchester airport was built when the surrounding land was mainly fields but is now surrounded by heat-generating buildings.

Terry Mills, professor of applied statistics and econometrics at Loughborough University, looked at the same data as the IPCC. He found that the warming trend it reported over the past 30 years or so was just as likely to be due to random fluctuations as to the impacts of greenhouse gases.

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[annalex]

Read the entire article...

[screaminsunshine]

I hope they infor our Socialist Professor in Chief.

[reaganaut1]

global warming ping

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Buck-I-Guy]

Ya Think????

[central_va]

World may not be warming, say scientists

SHHHHH! GEEZ! QUIET! You can't say that....Man you guys are in trouble now...

[hinckley buzzard]

I'm glad the statisticians are speaking up. The lack of any reported statistical tests of significance or even a margin of error in the IPCC's alleged "findings" has always been a bright red warning signal.

[Anti-Bubba182]

The more articles and studies like this the better! If the AGW fanatics are not challenged they will crater the economy with new taxes and regulations.

[COBOL2Java]

"Will someone...PLEASE...shut these people up!"

[LS]

First real crack in the dam. These guys not only show that the world is NOT warming, but specifically they show why the data even LOOKED at times like it was.

This is Bellesiles all over again.

[TigersEye]

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project. Dr. Mörner has been studying the sea level and its effects on coastal areas for some 35 years. He was interviewed by Gregory Murphy on June 6 for EIR.

31,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Theory to be Named Monday

[DeweyCA]

John Christy was features in “The Great Global Warming Swindle” and other anti-global warming videos. He is definitely a good guy who is willing to speak out against the global-warmists.

[Bratch]

[lurk]

We need an investigation to find out if a group of people were trying to scoop up billions from the nations of the world. If so, they need to be found and punished big time.

[annalex]

It is not merely statistically insignificant, it is simply bad data:

Such warnings are supported by a study of US weather stations co-written by Anthony Watts, an American meteorologist and climate change sceptic.

His study, which has not been peer reviewed, is illustrated with photographs of weather stations in locations where their readings are distorted by heat-generating equipment.

Some are next to air- conditioning units or are on waste treatment plants. One of the most infamous shows a weather station next to a waste incinerator.

Watts has also found examples overseas, such as the weather station at Rome airport, which catches the hot exhaust fumes emitted by taxiing jets.

In Britain, a weather station at Manchester airport was built when the surrounding land was mainly fields but is now surrounded by heat-generating buildings.

[Jeff Chandler]

"Never Mind."

[TigersEye]

It warned that greenhouse gases had already heated the world by 0.7C and that there could be 5C-6C more warming by 2100, with devastating impacts on humanity and wildlife.

Supposing the earth did warm up by 5C-6C degrees. I have never seen or heard of a single study or credibly written theory that it would have a "devastating impact on humanity and wildlife." To my knowledge that supposition is based entirely on wild imagination.

[FrankR]

"World may not be warming, say scientists"

[annalex]

punished big time.

This is why discovery like this is significant. I understand that well-meaning people can argue over the data and reach different conclusions. But when one relies on a weather station at an airport pretending he is collecting anything relevant to global patterns, then he is either incomepent to be in charge of the pencil sharpener, or committed a fraud.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

There are still buried premises in the article, despite the overtly good subject.

"Some even suggest the world may not be warming much at all."

No, some even suggest the world may not be warming at all. The "much" is to soften that.

And who recommends those "recommended links"?