Global Warming--A Sad Joke
Bensblurb #526 2/16/10
(The snow here is still way too deep for Lollipop and may even hang around another week or so. Brrrrrr)
GLOBAL WARMING--A Sad Joke
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to capture in a few words the essence of today’s global warming disputes. In a 2/16 editorial: “Now we are discovering the U.N. reports are sloppy political documents intended to drive the climate lobby’s regulatory agenda.”
That agenda, of course, is to levy new taxes on energy producers to reduce carbon emissions and stop the world from getting hotter and presumably less hospitable. That all supposes that we inhabitants are the reason it’s hotter than ever before.
Two big problems: I say it’s not hotter than ever before, and we inhabitants have precious little to do anyhow with how the globe reacts to major influences like the sun and the seas.
Now check these three recent nuggets I have collected to confirm my long-time convictions about the matter..
.....In National Review Online, here’s Mark Stein‘s take: “Climategate U-turn as Scientist at Centre of Row Admits There Has Been No Global Warming Since 1995. That would be 1995 as in a decade and a half ago? Gee, you wouldn't get that impression from reading the papers. Here's another first. Dr. Jones is the first IPCC honcho to concede the possibility that the present allegedly roasting planet may not be unprecedented:
He said that the debate over whether the world could have been even warmer than now during the medieval period, when there is evidence of high temperatures in northern countries, was far from settled.”
....In a new piece, friend Dennis Avery writes, “The UN’s climate change panel is reeling from a series of scandals about unsupported claims in its 2007 report.
1 India has documented that the Intergovernmental Panel’s claim of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035 was mere speculation—and has now been proven false.
2 The 2007 IPCC report claimed global warming could cut rain-fed African food yields in half by 2020. New lead author Chris Field says this is highly unlikely, and he can find nothing in the report’s supporting chapters to document it.
3 The Dutch are complaining that the IPCC said half of its land area lies below sea level, when the figure is actually 20 percent.
But the biggest scandal in the IPCC's closet remains its 1995 claim to finding a “discernible human influence” on the earth’s changing climate. Lead author Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore government laboratory inserted those words—after the IPCC’s consulting scientists had signed off on a draft that specifically said no such “human fingerprint” had been found!...Thus the IPCC’s whole claim of a “discernible human influence” remains without scientific support to this day.
What will we learn next?... Expect proof that the land-based thermometer records have been deliberately sabotaged to lower the temperature readings of yesteryear and raise recent thermometer readings—to make global warming seem scarier...Is it an accident that most of the world’s raw climate historical data has disappeared?
Veteran meteorologist Joe D’Aleo appeared on John Coleman’s TV special at KUSI-TV on January 14, charging that U.S. official temperatures have been rigged by quietly dropping “cold” weather stations: those at high altitude, high latitude, or in rural areas.
Looking back, an “official” global warming of 0.6 degrees since 1900 may not seem all that dramatic. Especially after a dozen years of non-warming. But think how hard it would have been for the global warming alarmists to panic the people if they’d admitted the rural areas hadn’t warmed at all! That “global warming” was mostly cities ratcheting up their own heat.
The supposedly dedicated “climate researchers” have nearly cost the world trillions of dollars in higher energy costs, agonies of wintertime suffering for the elderly “energy poor,” and needless deaths for lack of air conditioning in the summers.
Harry A. Taylor, Jr., retired space scientist lastly at the NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, has reviewed the literature and concluded:
1. The modern contemporary measurements of T fail to show convincing evidence of a
sustained and significant warming.
2. The satellite data include oscillations in T which are suggestive of natural forcing.
These oscillations which dominate the record are not predicted by climate models.
3. Model predictions of future increases in T and CO2 are dubious and exaggerated.
4. The effects of CO2 emissions upon T are estimated to be to be at most modest.
5. Climate models have many limitations;, most serious is the failure to address the
effects of weather processes and the role of the oceans and clouds.
6. Historic evidence of climate change indicates natural warmings and coolings of greater
magnitude than seen in modern industrialized times.
7. There is no certainty that climate is calculable.
8. Regulations imposed by Governments will not significantly affect climate, but will instead likely be wasteful and costly.
9. Disregard for scientific debate suppression of opinion, and management of news threatens both Science and Society.
10. Climate is largely driven by Nature, not Man
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(The snow here is still way too deep for Lollipop and may even hang around another week or so. Brrrrrr)
GLOBAL WARMING--A Sad Joke
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to capture in a few words the essence of today’s global warming disputes. In a 2/16 editorial: “Now we are discovering the U.N. reports are sloppy political documents intended to drive the climate lobby’s regulatory agenda.”
That agenda, of course, is to levy new taxes on energy producers to reduce carbon emissions and stop the world from getting hotter and presumably less hospitable. That all supposes that we inhabitants are the reason it’s hotter than ever before.
Two big problems: I say it’s not hotter than ever before, and we inhabitants have precious little to do anyhow with how the globe reacts to major influences like the sun and the seas.
Now check these three recent nuggets I have collected to confirm my long-time convictions about the matter..
.....In National Review Online, here’s Mark Stein‘s take: “Climategate U-turn as Scientist at Centre of Row Admits There Has Been No Global Warming Since 1995. That would be 1995 as in a decade and a half ago? Gee, you wouldn't get that impression from reading the papers. Here's another first. Dr. Jones is the first IPCC honcho to concede the possibility that the present allegedly roasting planet may not be unprecedented:
He said that the debate over whether the world could have been even warmer than now during the medieval period, when there is evidence of high temperatures in northern countries, was far from settled.”
....In a new piece, friend Dennis Avery writes, “The UN’s climate change panel is reeling from a series of scandals about unsupported claims in its 2007 report.
1 India has documented that the Intergovernmental Panel’s claim of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035 was mere speculation—and has now been proven false.
2 The 2007 IPCC report claimed global warming could cut rain-fed African food yields in half by 2020. New lead author Chris Field says this is highly unlikely, and he can find nothing in the report’s supporting chapters to document it.
3 The Dutch are complaining that the IPCC said half of its land area lies below sea level, when the figure is actually 20 percent.
But the biggest scandal in the IPCC's closet remains its 1995 claim to finding a “discernible human influence” on the earth’s changing climate. Lead author Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore government laboratory inserted those words—after the IPCC’s consulting scientists had signed off on a draft that specifically said no such “human fingerprint” had been found!...Thus the IPCC’s whole claim of a “discernible human influence” remains without scientific support to this day.
What will we learn next?... Expect proof that the land-based thermometer records have been deliberately sabotaged to lower the temperature readings of yesteryear and raise recent thermometer readings—to make global warming seem scarier...Is it an accident that most of the world’s raw climate historical data has disappeared?
Veteran meteorologist Joe D’Aleo appeared on John Coleman’s TV special at KUSI-TV on January 14, charging that U.S. official temperatures have been rigged by quietly dropping “cold” weather stations: those at high altitude, high latitude, or in rural areas.
Looking back, an “official” global warming of 0.6 degrees since 1900 may not seem all that dramatic. Especially after a dozen years of non-warming. But think how hard it would have been for the global warming alarmists to panic the people if they’d admitted the rural areas hadn’t warmed at all! That “global warming” was mostly cities ratcheting up their own heat.
The supposedly dedicated “climate researchers” have nearly cost the world trillions of dollars in higher energy costs, agonies of wintertime suffering for the elderly “energy poor,” and needless deaths for lack of air conditioning in the summers.
Harry A. Taylor, Jr., retired space scientist lastly at the NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, has reviewed the literature and concluded:
1. The modern contemporary measurements of T fail to show convincing evidence of a
sustained and significant warming.
2. The satellite data include oscillations in T which are suggestive of natural forcing.
These oscillations which dominate the record are not predicted by climate models.
3. Model predictions of future increases in T and CO2 are dubious and exaggerated.
4. The effects of CO2 emissions upon T are estimated to be to be at most modest.
5. Climate models have many limitations;, most serious is the failure to address the
effects of weather processes and the role of the oceans and clouds.
6. Historic evidence of climate change indicates natural warmings and coolings of greater
magnitude than seen in modern industrialized times.
7. There is no certainty that climate is calculable.
8. Regulations imposed by Governments will not significantly affect climate, but will instead likely be wasteful and costly.
9. Disregard for scientific debate suppression of opinion, and management of news threatens both Science and Society.
10. Climate is largely driven by Nature, not Man
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