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World may not be warming, say scientists
Times Online ^
| February 14, 2010
| Jonathan Leake
Posted on 02/13/2010 3:38:39 PM PST by annalex
[...]
The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change, said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.
The IPCC faces similar criticisms from Ross McKitrick, professor of economics at the University of Guelph, Canada, who was invited by the panel to review its last report.
The experience turned him into a strong critic and he has since published a research paper questioning its methods.
[...]
a weather station at Manchester airport was built when the surrounding land was mainly fields but is now surrounded by heat-generating buildings.
Terry Mills, professor of applied statistics and econometrics at Loughborough University, looked at the same data as the IPCC. He found that the warming trend it reported over the past 30 years or so was just as likely to be due to random fluctuations as to the impacts of greenhouse gases.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; climatechangedata; glaciergate; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingscandal; globqalwarminghoax; pachauri; pachaurigate
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:38:39 PM PST
by
annalex
To: annalex
I hope they infor our Socialist Professor in Chief.
To: steelyourfaith
To: annalex; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Fred Nerks; steelyourfaith; NormsRevenge; Oynx; BOBTHENAILER; ...
To: annalex
To: annalex
World may not be warming, say scientistsSHHHHH! GEEZ! QUIET! You can't say that....Man you guys are in trouble now...
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:48:23 PM PST
by
central_va
( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
To: annalex
I'm glad the statisticians are speaking up. The lack of any reported statistical tests of significance or even a margin of error in the IPCC's alleged "findings" has always been a bright red warning signal.
To: annalex
The more articles and studies like this the better! If the AGW fanatics are not challenged they will crater the economy with new taxes and regulations.
To: annalex
"Will someone...PLEASE...shut these people up!"
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:54:44 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
First real crack in the dam. These guys not only show that the world is NOT warming, but specifically they show why the data even LOOKED at times like it was.
This is Bellesiles all over again.
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:55:32 PM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: annalex
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:56:13 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
To: annalex
John Christy was features in “The Great Global Warming Swindle” and other anti-global warming videos. He is definitely a good guy who is willing to speak out against the global-warmists.
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:57:28 PM PST
by
DeweyCA
To: annalex
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:58:19 PM PST
by
Bratch
To: annalex
We need an investigation to find out if a group of people were trying to scoop up billions from the nations of the world. If so, they need to be found and punished big time.
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:59:18 PM PST
by
lurk
To: hinckley buzzard
It is not merely statistically insignificant, it is simply bad data:
Such warnings are supported by a study of US weather stations co-written by Anthony Watts, an American meteorologist and climate change sceptic. His study, which has not been peer reviewed, is illustrated with photographs of weather stations in locations where their readings are distorted by heat-generating equipment.
Some are next to air- conditioning units or are on waste treatment plants. One of the most infamous shows a weather station next to a waste incinerator.
Watts has also found examples overseas, such as the weather station at Rome airport, which catches the hot exhaust fumes emitted by taxiing jets.
In Britain, a weather station at Manchester airport was built when the surrounding land was mainly fields but is now surrounded by heat-generating buildings.
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posted on
02/13/2010 3:59:45 PM PST
by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: annalex
"Never Mind."
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posted on
02/13/2010 4:01:35 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
To: annalex
It warned that greenhouse gases had already heated the world by 0.7C and that there could be 5C-6C more warming by 2100, with devastating impacts on humanity and wildlife.Supposing the earth did warm up by 5C-6C degrees. I have never seen or heard of a single study or credibly written theory that it would have a "devastating impact on humanity and wildlife." To my knowledge that supposition is based entirely on wild imagination.
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posted on
02/13/2010 4:04:14 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
To: annalex
"
World may not be warming, say scientists"
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posted on
02/13/2010 4:04:47 PM PST
by
FrankR
(Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
To: lurk
punished big time. This is why discovery like this is significant. I understand that well-meaning people can argue over the data and reach different conclusions. But when one relies on a weather station at an airport pretending he is collecting anything relevant to global patterns, then he is either incomepent to be in charge of the pencil sharpener, or committed a fraud.
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posted on
02/13/2010 4:05:08 PM PST
by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: annalex
There are still buried premises in the article, despite the overtly good subject.
"Some even suggest the world may not be warming much at all."
No, some even suggest the world may not be warming at all. The "much" is to soften that.
And who recommends those "recommended links"?
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posted on
02/13/2010 4:06:09 PM PST
by
chuck_the_tv_out
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