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Top MIT scientist: Newest UN climate report is ‘hilariously’ flawed
The Daily Caller ^ | September 29, 2013 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 09/29/2013 2:00:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Not all scientists are panicking about global warming — one of them finds the alarmism “hilarious.”

A top climate scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lambasted a new report by the UN’s climate bureaucracy that blamed mankind as the main cause of global warming and whitewashed the fact that there has been a hiatus in warming for the last 15 years.

“I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence,” Dr. Richard Lindzen told Climate Depot, a global warming skeptic news site. “They are proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies between their models and observations increase.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claimed it was 95 percent sure that global warming was mainly driven by human burning of fossil fuels that produce greenhouse gases. The I.P.C.C. also glossed over the fact that the Earth has not warmed in the past 15 years, arguing that the heat was absorbed by the ocean.

“Their excuse for the absence of warming over the past 17 years is that the heat is hiding in the deep ocean,” Lindzen added. “However, this is simply an admission that the models fail to simulate the exchanges of heat between the surface layers and the deeper oceans.”

“However, it is this heat transport that plays a major role in natural internal variability of climate, and the IPCC assertions that observed warming can be attributed to man depend crucially on their assertion that these models accurately simulate natural internal variability,” Lindzen continued. “Thus, they now, somewhat obscurely, admit that their crucial assumption was totally unjustified.”

Scientists have been struggling to explain the 15-year hiatus in global warming....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


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KEYWORDS: climatechange; environmentalists; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; gorebullwarming; ipcc; lindzen; mit; richardlindzen; un; unitednations
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1 posted on 09/29/2013 2:00:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls our climates.

3. The earth is a rock.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


2 posted on 09/29/2013 2:04:27 PM PDT by abclily
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The I.P.C.C. also glossed over the fact that the Earth has not warmed in the past 15 years, arguing that the heat was absorbed by the ocean.

If there is so much heat going into the ocean, why aren't there more hurricanes?

3 posted on 09/29/2013 2:07:19 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'll never get tired of posting this link, it gives me a chuckle every time I read it.

STUDY: Climate change causing climate models to become less reliable.

4 posted on 09/29/2013 2:07:54 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Exactly how does all that extra heat end up hiding in the deep ocean?


5 posted on 09/29/2013 2:09:10 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Science.


6 posted on 09/29/2013 2:17:30 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: abclily

Oh don’t be ridiculous.....


7 posted on 09/29/2013 2:17:49 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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I LOVE that


8 posted on 09/29/2013 2:19:43 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Yet this Kool-Aid drinker is in tears over the latest AGW blather. Business Insider is all over it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/meterologist-eric-holthaus-quits-air-travel-2013-9


9 posted on 09/29/2013 2:20:43 PM PDT by cicero2k
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It is worth noting that one of the greatest weaknesses of the generally accepted beliefs about global warming/climate change/whatever weather is that A causes B in a simple, linear mental model in which one factor (fossil fuel burning) causes undesirable climate. There are other factors discussed but the dominant factor is fossil fuel burning. However, the climate is what scientists call a complex system and does not behave linearly nor is it simple, gradual, smooth cause-and-effect relationship over time. The author is at MIT, which is one of the homes, if not THE home, of dynamic, complex systems thinking. Freepers might use this bit of knowledge when accosted by climate change people who are guided by these simple mental models.


10 posted on 09/29/2013 2:21:59 PM PDT by iacovatx (Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Also, why don’t kids boil when they play on the beaches in CA?


11 posted on 09/29/2013 2:22:27 PM PDT by Viennacon
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“Exactly how does all that extra heat end up hiding in the deep ocean?”

The Global Warming pseudo-scientists put it there so the skeptics couldn’t find it.


12 posted on 09/29/2013 2:27:36 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Excessive numbers of coincidences are known as patterns.)
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UN fraud alert for later......


13 posted on 09/29/2013 2:27:56 PM PDT by indthkr
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“I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence,” [said] Dr. Richard Lindzen

This is quotable.

14 posted on 09/29/2013 2:29:58 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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When I was growing up the same scientists talked about global cooling, that all the pollution was blocking the sun and moving us towards a new ice age. That was based on the same type of projection, taking temperatures for the last 10 years and assuming they were caused by pollution, and would keep shifting the same way forever.
15 posted on 09/29/2013 2:33:48 PM PDT by Siegfried X
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lol


16 posted on 09/29/2013 2:36:44 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Makes sense.


17 posted on 09/29/2013 2:40:11 PM PDT by Richard from IL
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Exactly how does all that extra heat end up hiding in the deep ocean?

Two common answers come to mind. Feel free to pick either.

1) Global warming causes that

2) Its Bush's fault

18 posted on 09/29/2013 2:46:23 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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Joe Bastardi explains what has happened to the heat in the oceans and why the IPCC report truly is hilarious.
19 posted on 09/29/2013 2:49:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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Exactly how does all that extra heat end up hiding in the deep ocean?

Heat sinks.

Ba-da-bing! I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

20 posted on 09/29/2013 2:51:51 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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