[Oldeconomybuyer]

VIRTUAL CLIMATE ALERT

December 19, 2002 Vol. 3, No. 36

As predictably as reclusive authors reappear on talk shows to flog their latest book or movie stars can be seen yucking it up with Jay Leno just before he coincidently runs a clip from their upcoming box office smash, right on cue, this last week, came the flurry of announcements that characterize this year’s average global temperature as the whatever-warmest-on-record. Somehow these announcements always manage to precede the actual end of the year when all of the data actually is in, but let’s run with this year’s declaration that 2002 is – as you’ve heard by now – "the second warmest on record," a record that extends back into the mid- to late-1800s."

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So where’s the proof of the statement that global warming is increasing ever faster? These annual pronouncements are revealed to be what they are: efforts to resuscitate a dimming paradigm, that humans’ use of fossil fuels results in carbon dioxide emissions that are disrupting earth’s climate.

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[reformedliberal]

But of course, that refutation is from a *rightwing* source. </sarcasm>

There is no way to convince fools.

[Jen]

Truth or liberal BS? (I'm thinking more BS from the left...)

[dighton]

"It is humans who are clearly forcing the abrupt climate change we see right now," said Richard B. Alley of Pennsylvania State University, who recently chaired a National Research Council committee looking specifically at climate change.

Used thus, clearly evokes Stalin's formula, "as is generally known."

[meenie]

The second warmest summer on record, dating back to the mid-1800's. Yeah, those were the days when we were using lots of fossil fuels.

[ovrtaxt]

Gosh, I guess somebody should inform Florida about the shrinking ice caps, because apparently we don't know about this yet. I was at the beach the other day and the water was still in the same place...

[metesky]

The Arctic's sea ice -- large masses of snow-covered ice that float everywhere around the polar latitudes -- usually covers 2.4 million square miles of the ocean north of Canada, Greenland and Russia in September, the height of the ice season.

Oh, yeah. I would have sworn that winter was the height of ice season, but then all I can do is look out the window. I don't have sophisticated computer models to tell me when winter arrives in the northern hemisphere.

[LiberationIT]

Ah yes... more Liberal Chicken Littles; running in circles, flapping their wings and breathlessly clucking "The sky is warming, the sky is warming!"

[irish guard]

I have a question......If there has already been a 20% erosion of the cap, why isn't there a bunch of shoreline already underwater? Wasn't that one of the claims of a melting ice cap?

[Hank Kerchief]

If the trends continue unchecked, scientists say, rising sea levels will drown coastlines. Droughts in some regions -- and increased rainfall in others -- will alter harvests drastically. And other climate disruptions will destabilize regional ecologies and global economies.

Well that's a safe bet. No matter what happens, if the world gets cooler, or warmer, or wetter, or dryer, there will be "droughts in some regions -- and increased rainfall in others -- will alter harvests drastically. And other climate disruptions will destabilize regional ecologies and global economies. Duh!

I'm in the wrong business. Do people get paid to write this drivel?

Hank

[Fresh Wind]

Global Warming™ hype + media panic = endlessly increasing research grants

[jazerb]

I've posted this before, but it is appropriate to post this again, here. From the December 11, 2002 CO2 Science Magazine, written by Sherwood Keith and Craig Idso: There Has Been No Global Warming for the Past 70 Years], the Arctic - which according to essentially all climate models is supposed to be the harbinger of things to come for the rest of the world - is not yet as warm as it was in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In fact, because temperatures were so high for so long back then, the authors report that linear regression trends calculated from the 1920s to the present show a small but statistically significant cooling tendency.

[muir_redwoods]

Let me pose a simple question about this supposed global warming. So What? The earth has gone through countless cycles of warming and cooling long before humans arrived and it will go on through cycles long after we're gone.

If these Greenies and Liberals are so worried about global warming doesn't that just suggest that they are out of tune with nature and clinically averse to change. So what if over time the Mississippi valley becomes the rain-forest and Alaska looks like Los Angeles? We're human beings. The best among us adapt and move on. The species that can adapt will thrive and the others won't.

[Piquaboy]

If this came out of San Francisco, it must be true!

[aruanan]

From the tropics to the poles, evidence is growing stronger than ever that Earth's climate is warming dangerously.

"Dangerously". Ha ha ha. It's a funny thing that these folks never bother to look at other eras of higher global temperature in order to see the effects on human society. The effects have been good, really good.

See also, Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming (content summary, PDF file).

Here's another good one from two years ago:

Polar ice cap melting?
by S. Fred Singer (Wall Street Journal August 28, 2000)

It is fashionable these days to blame most everything on manmade global warming. So it comes as no great surprise to read in the NY Times (Aug 19) that "leads" of open water in ice fields near the North Pole filled cruise passengers on a Russian icebreaker with a "sense of alarm" about impending climate disasters. Two scientist-lecturers aboard, a Harvard zoologist and an American Museum paleontologist (experts on animals and fossils but not on meteorology) were "shocked," so ABC News reports, to find "Santa's workshop underwater." What a gruesome image for frightening little kids!

I am a veteran of two Arctic expeditions with the US Navy, and I can testify that icebreakers always search for leads to make their way through the ice. After a long summer of 24-hour days it is not unusual to find open leads all over the place, especially after strong winds break up the winter ice. In the Dutch Winkler Prins Atlas of 1969 the following passage appears: - "the Northern Ice Sea is never completely frozen; 3-30 meter- thick ice floes continue moving slowly around the pole. At the North Pole the winter temperature is never lower than -35°C. Summer temperatures can rise to 10-12°C" (which is well above freezing).

But all this proves little about climate change -- or about enhanced greenhouse warming. For this purpose we use instruments: thermometers at weather stations, radiosondes carried into the atmosphere by weather balloons twice daily, and of course Earth-circling weather satellites, which sense atmospheric temperatures remotely. And all of these agree that the polar regions have not warmed appreciably in recent decades.

Climate models do call for a warming trend as levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide rise because of the burning of fossil fuels. Hence the dilemma: Whom should we believe: theoretical models of the atmosphere or the atmosphere itself? I prefer to believe in the atmosphere and the actual observations that show no current warming. If this clashes with the accepted popular wisdom and media hype, so be it. I go with published data.

The Earth did warm between about 1900 and 1940, with the climate recovering from a previous cold period that climate experts refer to as the "Little Ice Age." As a result of these changes, which have nothing to do with human influences, it is warmer now than 100 years ago. But it does have an influence on polar ice, which has been slowly thinning, as it melts from beneath. And it will continue to thin for some time to come even though the climate is no longer warming.

Weather satellites tell us that polar ice cover is shrinking --- likely a delayed effect of the pre-1940 warming. The Northeast Passage has opened up, allowing ships to sail from London to Japan along the coast of Siberia. It's all part of a natural climate cycle and need not cause concern. Recall that 1000 years ago the climate was so warm that Vikings settled Greenland and grew crops there for a few centuries. Just imagine: Santa's reindeers would have had to swim to get here from the North Pole.
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PS No one from the National Ice Center in Suitland MD has been quoted in the press. Why? Because they would have told that it is normal to see open water in the Arctic Ocean. The features are called polynyas and are common to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the season, have been mapped now for more than ten years, and published by the Ice Center in a product called FLaP, which stands for Fractures Leads and Polynyas. [Information from a retired NOAA employee who served for several years as Leading Ice Analyst and Forecaster. For a recent research paper on polynyas in the Siberian Laptev Sea, see Eos (Transactions of Amer. Geophys. Union) 81, Aug. 8, 2000]

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Atmospheric physicist S Fred Singer is emeritus professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. He earlier served as the director of the US Weather Satellite Service and as the chief scientist of the US Department of Transportation.

[Congressman Billybob]

I dealt with this precise subject in my latest column, "Junk Science - Harvard and Beyond." Among the points made is that in 35 years of the 20th century, there was COOLING, not warming. Nobody's computer model showed that.

And as for the ice packs, they come and go. They were smallest since the last Ice Age, in the era of 900 - 1.300 A.D. (when there was a shocking lack of SUVs and coal-fired electricity generating plants. That's when the Vikings colonized Greenland and Newfoundland. Greenland then was actually "green;" imagine that! Rather than 90% covered in ice as it is now. And man's activities had diddly squat to do with that warming, which was far more than anything today.

The most telling statistic, however, is to put a chart of the up-down spikes in radiation from the Sun on top of the up-down spikes in warmth in the troposhere on Earth. The matchi is almost perfect. Anyone who talks about global warming without also discussing changes in Sun radiation is committing journalistic malpractice.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest column on UPI, "Junk Science - Harvard and Beyond" (Now up on UPI wire, and FR.)

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

[wcbtinman]

Well I'm still waiting...for the laws of physics to be pushed aside by these socialist idiot scientists.

I just bought all of the property at the 300ft above sea level line. When the oceans rise, I'll own the entire coastline of the US.(sarcasm)

[tubebender]

It marked the most abrupt change in the ocean's ice cover that scientists monitoring the region have seen in 24 years,

So what happened 24 years ago that slowed the change...

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Very similar thread debunked here -->Arctic ice cap to vanish in 80 years!

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Take the GLOBAL WARMING TEST.

[SunkenCiv]

Greenland Ice Cap Is Melting, Raising Sea Level
Source: The Associated Press
Published: Jul 20, 2000 - 04:05 PM Author: By Paul Recer
Posted on 07/20/2000 14:37:50 PDT by Ms. AntiFeminazi
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3977712e1941.htm