Posted on 06/09/2014 1:32:15 PM PDT by servo1969
Guest-hosting for Rush a few days ago, I said if your kid is graduating from high school this week there has been no global warming his entire life. And immediately the usual drama queens emailed that I was a know-nothing denialist. But, just to nail it down, there has been no global warming for 17 years and nine months. That's since September 1996. The High School Class of 2014 has been blessed to have lived its entire life in a warming-free world.
We're supposed to ignore this nigh-on-two-decade warming "pause" because the "97 per cent scientific consensus" tell us to. But, as Richard Tol's new paper argues, that 97 per cent consensus is no more real than the rampant global warming. In fact, there's so little consensus that the only consensus the Geological Society of Australia can agree on is a press release saying there's no consensus:
AUSTRALIA'S peak body of earth scientists has declared itself unable to publish a position statement on climate change due to the deep divisions within its membership on the issue.
After more than five years of debate and two false starts, Geological Society of Australia president Laurie Hutton said a statement on climate change was too difficult to achieve.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Oh look! a chart of sunspot activity!
Nor have the seas raised an inch.
Technically not correct. Sea levels have continued over the last 20 years to rise at a rate of approximately 3 mm/year, as they had for about 120 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise#mediaviewer/File:Trends_in_global_average_absolute_sea_level,_1870-2008_(US_EPA).png
That means that over the last 20 years they've risen about 60mm, or about 2.4 inches.
This may be an over-estimate by as much as half, according to other sources. But that would still give us more than an inch over the 20 years. :)
Here's the best compilation of understandable data on sea level change that I've seen.
http://notrickszone.com/2011/02/16/a-level-look-at-sea-levels/
Damn. So much for my dream of catching a Montana Marlin.
Damn. So much for my dream of catching a Montana Marlin.
But if moochelle ever shows up in Montana you will still have the opportunity of catching a big mouth ass.
http://notrickszone.com/2011/02/16/a-level-look-at-sea-levels/
is a good link. However, it only provides corrections for glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA). It doesn’t provide for subsidance.
People sometimes build cities on recovered land (like Boston), or on the edge of impact craters (Norfolk, VA), or swampland (like New Orleans). As these cities sink, water depth markers give the impression of rising seawater.
Cities like Los Angeles are built near tectonically active areas. Sea levels can go up or down beyond the GIA adjustment.
It is quite muddy to ascertain sea level change. But the good article you linked to shows that, if there is anything sea level rise at all, it is quite slow.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/scientists/index.html
From another EPA site:
Did you know that thousands of measurements of the Earth’s air, water, and land are taken every day? These measurements come from weather stations, airplanes, ships, satellites, and many other sources all around the globe. Taken all together, these measurements and other observations tell us that the Earth’s climate is warming, people are the main cause, and impacts on society and the environment are already happening people are the main cause, and impacts on society and the environment are already happening.
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The above is simply NOT true. But it’s EPA stuff aimed at children so they don’t have to go out of their way to make it sound ‘scientific’. Sherman - did you know your first link was EPA related?
“It’s fun to pretend like it’s real!”
~All Climate Alarmists
Steyn ping.
Yes. Which is why I though it was interesting it showed consistent average annual sea level rise over last 150 years.
No hockey stick.
My backyard ends at a salt water tidal stream. In 30 years it hasn’t changed an inch. Well, when the tide’s up it’s higher, when there’s heavy rain or a hurricane it changes but other than that it goes right back to it’s normal ebb and flow...
There’s islands in the Pacific that were suppose to be the first one’s to go under - like 2 inches above sea level... We’ve heard about those islands for decades - they were suppose to be under water twenty years ago - they’re still 2 inches above sea level.
I don’t know what to say...
As others have noted, it can be really difficult to isolate sea level going up or down from local land going up or down.
“Sea levels have continued over the last 20 years to rise at a rate of approximately 3 mm/year”
It boggles my mind that we can measure 3 mm per year ....
more boggling is the hurricane that at level 5 hits Miami dead on and destroys a $110 trillion of on the waterfront at sea level property.
Watch the glorious color intro to CSI Miami and think category 4 or 5 hurricane
Mark Steyn ping.
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Thanks for the ping Slings and Arrows.
One way to stop this nonsense is for the U.S. to adopt the “English Rule” in civil suits. Loser pays the court costs. The plaintiff bar (you know the ones who advertise, “You may be entitled to money!”) hate it. What better endorsement can there be?
Damn. So much for my dream of catching a Montana Marlin.
Reply:
But if moochelle ever shows up in Montana you will still have the opportunity of catching a big mouth ass.
Gotta love IT! Best laugh I've had this morning!
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