Posted on 10/22/2011 6:54:27 AM PDT by tobyhill
A new climate study shows that since the mid-1950s, global average temperatures over land have risen by 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit), confirming previous studies that have found a climate that has been warming in fits and starts since around 1900.
Most climate scientists attribute warming since the mid-1950, at least to some degree, to carbon dioxide emissions from human activities burning coal, oil, and to a lesser extent gas, and from land-use changes.
The latest results mirror those from earlier, independent studies by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in Britain, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
These previous efforts, however, came under fire from some climate-change skeptics who said they had detected serious flaws in the analytical methods and temperature records the three groups used.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Scientists are skeptical mainly of the alarmists' irresponsible predictions and unsubstantiated attributions of cause to trivial phenomena like how much coal we burn, while ignoring fluctuations in solar activity that correlate historically with climate change.
This "blue ribbon" team at least have the good sense not to make any judgment as to the cause of their alleged "warming." They let their financial backers believe that they were going to produce an elephant but have labored mightily instead to give birth to a gnat.
I think the authors have doubts that this study will stand up to scrutiny. They posted it on a berzerkely blog instead of submitting it to review by qualified skeptical peers. I think I'll wait for the process to go forward before taking even these modest findings very seriously.
Lol, that’s right. I remember that in the 70’s.....another Ice Age.
Now it’s globull warming. They simply cannot make up their minds.
I wonder what they will come up with 30 years from now....if we’re still here of course!!! >: )
certainly you are correct.
but, there is a lot of data that is useful,
when it isn’t rigged.
official data has been changed, LOWERING temperatures
in official records, up to 100 years ago, to falsely
create a higher slope.
and this study is mostly true, but misleading.
since 1950, there WAS a temperature increase.
MOSTLY because the Sun was it’s most active,
in 1000 years.
but, in the past decade, the Sun has changed,
and we are entering another “Maunder Minimum”
period.
(Satellite measurements show the LOWEST readings ever
from the Sun, since launched in the 50 years ago.)
and in fact, the Earth has gotten COLDER since 2001.
(which is why Hadley CRU wanted to “Hid the decline”.)
http://www.real-science.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ScreenHunter_135-Sep.-16-09.00.gif
http://www.real-science.com/day-2011-cooler-2010-2
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/276516/Britain-faces-a-mini-ice-age-
http://antigreen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
And what melted the Ice Age and mini Ice Age? I’m no Rocket Scientist, but I do know there were no SUV’s at that time.
the sea level, which has been naturally increasing, for thousands of years, has stabilized. frost lines are creeping north each year. manatees dying from cold in florida, millions of livestock dying of cold in Asia.
3 degree DROP statewide, in only 7 years...
“Hide the Decline” in “global warming”.
http://i.imgur.com/i3RIm.gif
Changing Tides: Research Center Under Fire for ‘Adjusted’ Sea-Level Data (The hoax continues)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2736328/posts?page=15#15
and here, shows that the CO2 levels
(measured by Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry)
where much HIGHER in the 1800’s.
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/180_years_accurate_Co2_Chemical_Methods.pdf
maybe the ice age fauna smoked 2 packs a day?
Sometimes the clobe is warmer, sometimes the globe is cooler, and it's been happening WITHOUT mankinds help for longer than mankind has been around.
We didn't cause global cooling and we're not causing global warming.
We don't cause sunrise, sunset, sunspots, tidal waves, cloudy days, sunny days, hurricanes....etc etc etc
The Universe is HUGE!!!
‘Climate reports’ are a dime a doze these days....literally. =.=
Bingo!!! Damned smokers...oh wait, I just damned myself. I only smoke 3/4 a pack a day. It’s ALL MY FAULT!!!
I also drive a gas guzzling SUV, he’s a hungry boy.
Okay, I confess, it is I who is causing globull warming. Oh, and I still use regular light bulbs.
I am erfs enemy!
:)
Actually, this looks like a very fair study. It was funded in part by the Koch brothers foundation. They have made all their data and computer programs available for download, so anyone can do a "peer" review.
Peer review has little validity if the reviewers are incestuous with the author - and this is the norm in science. Transparency and full disclosure is much better than peer review. Hopefully this will become the norm in the computer age.
This study has to go through peer review before it can be claimed to say anything.
MEET THE NEW LYING CROOKS!
SAME AS THE OLD LYING CROOKS.
Any human activity causing CO2 is wiped out several times over by the suppression of forest fires that used to rage across the country every year.
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