[new cruelty]

We all gonna die!

[coloradan]

"It is now clear that human (activity) has become dominant over the natural variability."

BS! Humans haven't caused things quite like ice ages, of which there have been many.

[Damocles]

"Humnans: Scientists to be the death of us all."

[Fish out of Water]

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[Fish out of Water]

Who Is In Denial? (Global Warming - whose Fault?)
Tech Central Station ^ | December 12, 2002 | Sallie Baliunas, Tim Patterson, Allan MacRae
Posted on 12/16/2002 11:09 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/807773/posts

[Blue Screen of Death]

Cow farts.

[aruanan]

With 2002 on track to be the second-warmest year on record, scientists said Monday they are confident that human activity, rather than a natural variation in Earth's climate, is responsible for the unprecedented warming trend of the past two decades.

Yeah, unprecedented. Of the last two decades. And yet we're still several degrees C under the 10,000 year average, still a couple degrees C under the temp of the Medieval Climate Optimum that certainly wasn't caused by human activity.

[Number_Cruncher]

But there is no El Nino this year and 2002 temperatures are nearly as high as those of 1998, Mann noted.

Last July, NOAA said an El Nino was underway this year. See http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1334/

Is Mann ignorant, or is he lying?

[driftless]

Where I live (Wisconsin) we just went through two colder than average months. Bring on global warming. Any upper Midwest resident who says he or she misses the days of thirty below or worse is cracked. If you don't like warmer winters, move north.

[boris]

What liars cannot stand is simple truth and facts:

LINK

This temperature update presents the NASA satellite measurements of monthly temperature anomalies—the difference between the observed values and the 1979–1998 mean values. Global satellite measurements are made from a series of orbiting platforms that sense the average temperature in various atmospheric layers. Here, we present the lowest level, which matches nearly perfectly with the mean temperatures measured by weather balloons in the layer between 5,000 and 28,000 feet. The satellite measurements are considered accurate to within 0.01°C and provide more uniform coverage of the entire globe than surface measurements, which tend to concentrate over land.

October 2002: The global average temperature departure was 0.101°C; the Northern Hemisphere temperature departure was -0.111°C; and the Southern Hemisphere departure was 0.312°C.

Below: Monthly satellite temperatures for the Northern Hemisphere (top) and Southern Hemisphere (bottom). Trend lines indicate statistically significant changes only.

[TopQuark]

. A similar estimate has not been made for the Southern Hemisphere due to gaps in available data, he said.

There you go! That's where all the heat comes from --- look South, young man!

[KevinDavis]

Then I guess it is time for all humans to leave this planet and move to a new planet.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The 16 warmest years since record-keeping began in 1880 have all occurred since 1980. Last year was the second-warmest, but now drops to third.

Warm is better.

Less need for fossil fuels.

Any dimwit knows that volcanic activity controls the climate.

Decrease volcanic activity.......warm up the earth.

Increase activity........dust will block the sunlight........cool the earth.

The "little ice age" after the great Krakatoa explosion proves the point!!

[Centurion2000]

Indeed, studies show that 1998 and 2002 are the two warmest years in the Northern Hemisphere in at least the last 1,000 years, said University of Virginia climatologist Michael Mann. </>

Bullhillary .... want warm ? Let's go take a look at the Jurrasic Period for warm climates.

[MattinNJ]

Good, because I'm feezing my butt off in NJ.

[Congressman Billybob]

This article is a classic example of junk science. It is total bullsh*t, unless the reporter asks and answers the question, "How hot was the Sun in 2002?" I deal with this precise subject in my latest column for UPI, which I submitted a day early because of this article.

Click the first link below for "Junk Science - Harvard and Beyond" as I submitted it to UPI, minutes ago.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest column on UPI, "Junk Science - Harvard and Beyond" (Not yet on UPI wire, nor FR.)

Click for latest book, "to Restore Trust in America"

[tracer]

And here I thought that the wrens were to blame.....

[itsahoot]

These clowns actually put a lot of people in jail based on their scientific, expert testimony.

[rustbucket]

Mann is the person who reconstructed a global temperature record for the last millennium that showed relatively little impact of the Maunder Minimum "Little Ice Age" and the Medieval Warm Period.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used Mann's "hockey stick" global temperature reconstruction as the basis of their investigation into climate change. If one assumes a temperature record like Mann's that is relatively flat or slightly declining except for the last 100 years or so, then the only explanation for the last century's rise in temperature becomes the human influence.

Other scientists do not agree with Mann's temperature reconstruction: Temperature Record.

The Little Ice Age was clearly global in its extent. I've been following scientific papers on it for years, and I about fell out of my chair when I saw what the IPCC had used.

[ancient_geezer]

"It is now clear that human (activity) has become dominant over the natural variability."

Sure, and I have some ocean front property in Colorado tah sell yah.

 

Globally Averaged Atmospheric Temperatures
(NASA)

This chart shows the monthly temperature changes for the lower troposphere - Earth's atmosphere from the surface to 8 km, or 5 miles up. The temperature in this region is more strongly influenced by oceanic activity, particularly the "El Niño" and "La Niña" phenomena, which originate as changes in oceanic and atmospheric circulations in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The overall trend in the tropospheric data is near zero, being +0.04 C/decade through Feb 2002. Click on the chart to get the numerical data.

Ice Ages & Astronomical Causes
Brief Introduction to the History of Climate
by Richard A. Muller

Figure 1-1 Global warming

Figure 1-2 Climate of the last 2400 years

 

Figure 1-3 Climate of the last 12,000 years

Figure 1-4 Climate of the last 100,000 years

Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice