Posted on 11/17/2011 9:47:24 AM PST by neverdem
Global warming has re-entered public consciousness in recent days, partly because of the buzz surrounding the release of warming results from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. The reaction of the "warmistas" has been jubilant, yet hilariously wrong. Will they ever learn?
They've latched on to the BEST result as their last best hope for rescuing misbegotten schemes to control emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2. Leading the pack has been the Washington Post (Oct. 25), whose columnist tried to write off Republican presidential candidates Bachmann, Cain, and Perry as "cynical diehards," deniers, idiots, or whatever.
I sent the WP a letter pointing out obvious errors, but I got a peculiar response. It turned out that they were willing to publish my letter, but not my credentials as emeritus professor at the University of Virginia and former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service. Apparently, they were concerned that readers might gain the impression that I knew something about climate.
Unfortunately, it has become expedient (for those who condemn CO2 as the cause of warming) to deride their opponents with terms like "climate deniers." A complacent and inattentive media has made the problem worse, by giving the impression that anyone who doesn't buy the CO2 hypothesis doesn't believe that climate changes, and hence is a total Luddite. Even the WSJ got carried away. Prof. Richard Muller, the originator and leader of the BEST study, complained to me that some eager editor changed the title of his op-ed (Oct. 21) to "The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism" from his original "Cooling the Global Warming Debate. "
The (formerly respected) scientific journal Nature chimed in and announced in an (Oct. 26) editorial[i] that any results confirming "climate change" (meaning anthropogenic global warming -- AGW) are welcome, even when released before peer...
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The climate ‘crisis’ goons are standing in quicksand and the more they struggle the faster they’ll sink.
You need a universal temperature which is even more impossible.
Man is soooooo vain....so afraid to say...."I don't know" so he makes wild guesses and expounds. But in the end....it's all about money and power.....not science.
The ONLY global data that we have is from satellites. Balloons and surface temperature measurements should be used to corroborate and correlate satellite measurements with surface measurements, both on the ground and water surface temperatures.
Continue playing around using only land temperature measurements might never be credible in my opinion.
LLS
Y’all should check out ISPYONSALEM.com.....they’ve done hour long radio programs on this....the one coming up this Saturday will shed MORE light on it all....Dr. Tim Ball is the guest.
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