Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/17/2010 2:23:00 AM PST by The Raven
This column was scoffing at global warming back when global warming was still cool. But even we have been surprised at the extent of the past three months' "meltdown" of global warmism, to use the metaphor that everyone seems to have settled on.
As we've written on various occasions, we didn't know enough about the substance of the underlying science to make a judgment about it. But we know enough about science itself to recognize that the popular rendition of global warmism--dogmatic, doctrinaire and scornful of skepticism--is not the least bit scientific. The revelations in the Climategate emails show that these attitudes were common among actual scientists, not just the popularizers of their work.
Still, we would not have gone so far as to say that global warming was just a hoax. Surely there was some actual science to back it, even if there was a lot less certainty than was claimed.
Now, though, we're wondering if this was too charitable a view. London's Sunday Times reports that scientists are "casting doubt" on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution," a claim the IPCC describes as "unequivocal":
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(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
All that's left is faith.
Bitter people cling to faith
And their guns, of course...
“Biggest scientific fraud perped ever - and continues to be”
It will not end.
The AGW scamers have too much invested in it.
Criminals, like Al Goreon, have been made billionaires.
The Marxist love the control that AGW gives them.
Just look at all the TAX, regulation, and control of people’s lives that come from perpetuating AGW.
It IS The Truman Show. . .and it is not over.
algore = bernie madoff, except algore isn’t IN JAIL YET.
And not anywhere close. We know, at least so far and in this lifetime; these people live the farthest from hell.
There will, of course, in time; be moves and transfers, out of their neighborhood and into another. . .
It’s time for someone to put the NOBEL Prize committee on the hotseat for giving the Peace Prize to the IPCC!
Gore needs to be sued into oblivion.
>>It IS The Truman Show. . .and it is not over.
Hah! That also fits Obama and the lefties doesn’t it? They’ve been surrounded by Marxists their whole life.
P.T. Barnum; You’re on.
We know at least that Obama,Inc. is relentlessly engaged in their pursuit for revolutionary 'change'. As are all their Marxist/communist/fascist/jihadist peers.
If Amnesty is passed then we will get the whole Revolutionary package, probably complete in my lifetime and I am not young. Soetorocare and Cap&Tax will bring in a may just look like Europeanization but when the US goes dhat route then there is no bulwark to keep the rest of Westworld prosperous. We will be headed back to the Middle Ages and the declining birthrate is the only thing that will minimize famine.
A key component of the scientific argument for anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been disproven. The results are hiding in plain sight in peer-reviewed journals.
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The science behind the AGW hypothesis is that increased amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere (that humans produce by burning fossil fuels) will block more outgoing long-wave IR radiation (OLR) from exiting the atmosphere and thereby warm the surface.
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So the results of three different peer-reviewed papers show that over a period of 36 years, there is no reduction of OLR emissions in wavelengths that CO2 absorb. Therefore, the AGW hypothesis is disproven.
It should be noted that another paper written by Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi (both work at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences -- Lindzen is a professor and Choi is a postdoctoral fellow) reveals the differences between the measured OLR and its impact on temperatures vs. climate models. In the paper, the data showed that OLR increased when sea surface temperatures increased, so this is in direct contradiction to the AGW hypothesis that less OLR should be emitted since more CO2 is absorbing it and warming the planet. Furthermore, in contradiction to the climate models, these results show that OLR is acting like a negative feedback (cooling the surface) instead of a positive feedback (radiative forcing). The Lindzen and Choi paper dealt in general with all OLR wavelengths and didn't show granularity with respect to specific wavelengths that were related to various GHG absorption, but the fact that the entire OLR emission spectrum didn't behave like the eleven climate models' predictions means that "the science isn't settled."
IMHO, the title should have been, "The Four Anti-AGW Smoking Guns."
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