Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/18/2011 3:53:39 AM PST by markomalley
Willis Eschenbach’s recent guest post at Watts Up With That? on the current state of ‘Climate science’ should be made compulsory reading in every classroom, every university science department, every eco-charity, every environmental NGO and in every branch of government. They won’t like it up ‘em, that’s for sure.
What Eschenbach says is so pure and simple and obvious you’d need to be as dumb as Chris Huhne not to get it:
The theory linking man-made CO2 with dangerous global warming is dead. It has been falsified. It has run smack bang into a “null hypothesis.” It has met its Waterloo. It has bought the farm. It has gone for a Burton. It has cashed in its chips, fallen off its perch, gone south, gone west, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible. Man-made Global Warming has ceased to exist.
Eschenbach wrote his post in response to a bizarre speech prepared by Dr Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which he intended to deliver to the American Meteorological Society. Trenberth is the arch-warmist perhaps best known for writing the Climategate email which went:
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.
When Trenberth’s speech was pre-published on the internet it caused something of a stir, both for the way large chunks of it had been taken almost verbatim from another scientist and for its use six times of the word “denier”. (Thanks to some kindly advice proferred by Steve McIntyre, Trenberth has now significantly altered his speech. “Deniers” has been altered to “sceptics.” Probably quite sensibly since many in the AMS, being meteorologists rather than “climate scientists” tend very much to…
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ping
Keep scheming and we will fill our jails with your rotting, lying carcasses.
LLS
Sid Sodnagel sez “A Tautology is a circular argument with a radius of zero.”
Intersting. Ping for later.....
"This is an ex-theory!"
"It's not dead - it's pinin'... pinin' for the fjords.... lovely plumage..."
When the facts don't fit the hypothesis, it's time to revise the hypothesis.
Or in this case:
When the facts don't fit the hypothesis, it's time to revise thehypothesisfacts.
The latest discovery to refute global warming is that sea levels may actually be dropping. If that proves true, then Al Gore’s baby is deader than Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
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So now the deniers are all full of crap?
His complaint actually addressed the lack of reliable instrumentation. He thought that if we had enough of the right kind of sensors, they would confirm his AGW. He was referring to the energy budget of the earth. Ultimately, the amount energy radiated by the earth must equal incident solar energy plus any energy released by the earth, from nuclear reactions and chemical processes. This follows from the elementary physics, tying up the details and determining the equilibrium point is messy.
bttt
You've got sceptics and septics confused.
These Global Warning alarmists are embarrassing themselves and hurting science.
In Gen 8:22,
God reveals that He is a “global warming denier”.
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