Global Warming - Has the hoax run its course?

Wow, 16 years. Isn't the earth a little bit older than you are?

You have to know a lot about the distance past to make non-laughable estimates about the future. Hint: Temperatire has varied widely over the millennia.

Since "global warming" is "caused" by CO2 emissions - you would think the earth would warmed greatly over that time since, let's look at China, for example, their CO2 emissions have TRIPLED over that period. India is probably similar. But the earth's temperature has done nothing over that period. Perhaps the earth's temperature is not affected by CO2 emissions?

But every time Rush and other think tank deniers open their mouths, the atmosphere is filled with more hot air, so any think tank moted must account for this scientifically observed phenomenon.

The most compelling science indicates that global warming is a political invention.

The idea was spread, in part, by accompanying any announcement of it being a real problem with the notion that any opposition to the idea must be less than intelligent and anti-science, pro-pollution. There is little better evidence of a weak idea known to be weak to those propounding it than a simultaneous smear of those opposing the idea. I am old enough to be suspicious of such initiatives when they involve governmental expenditures which are mostly paid to the people advocating the spending. I've seen it before. Defense contractors love war. Government unions love new programs and environmentalists love having those who actually make and consume things fund their lifestyles and organizations.

Smelled bad a decade ago. Looks embarassing now to those who fell for the global warming hoax. 16 years of no warming would shame honest people into stopping, but this is a hoax, so it continues.

The credentials of those "scientists" who participated in this elaborate hoax should be stripped and they should be run out of their respective professions. How embarrassing to have been caught in such a ruse as this. They are not scientists - they are scheisters.

bigtime wrote:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/02/2012-updates-to-model-observation-comparions/#more-14579

That is pretty funny. Doug Smith and Co. predicted in 2007 that global warming would stall briefly - TEN YEARS AFTER GLOBAL WARMING HAD STALLED!!!

"In August 2007, Doug Smith took the biggest gamble of his career. After more than ten years of work with fellow modellers at the Met Office's Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK, Smith published a detailed prediction of how the climate would change over the better part of a decade1. His team forecasted that global warming would stall briefly and then pick up speed, sending the planet into record-breaking territory within a few years."

Earlier we explored Newsweek Magazine's "global cooling" alarmist article in 1975. Now lets us explore Time Magazine's alarmist "global cooling" article from June of 1974. As it turns out, the press was awash with warnings of a new ice age in the 1970's, a decade known for strange cults. Of course at the time (just as now) people thought that they were at the peak of scientific knowledge and that they had a firm grasp on the science, which proved to be complete bunk... and will likely be proven as such again; Time's recent scarry headline (in image) not withstanding. So I give you Time Magazine's 1974; the coming ice age:

In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection.

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.

Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere—thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved.

Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.

Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part of an international scientific effort known acronymically as GARP (for Global Atmospheric Research Program).

Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.

Deep Cold: Interior and Northern Alaska Weather & Climate

An Alaskan Weather and Climate Blog: All Science, No Politics

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Record Cold in the Northern Interior

post on the very warm summer at Anchorage and Fairbanks.

A cold airmass and clear skies allowed for temperatures to plunge to record low levels in the northern Interior.

Most notably, Bettles recorded a low of 15ºF Saturday morning. This is by far the lowest temperature of record at Bettles in August. The previous record at the Bettles in August was 22ºF on August 30, 1969. At old Bettles, about four miles downriver from the current townsite, a low of 20ºF was measured on August 24, 1948.

Other low temperatures included 17ºF at both Chandalar DOT and Coldfoot DOT and a chilly 13F at the Norutak Lake RAWS west of Bettles. These are close to, but not at the record low temperature for the month of August in the state.

The global warming industry is too big to fail.

ok granted it's a crazy proposition, but the change from 1950 to today is pretty stark:

(in 1950 vs today)"Over a million different species of plants and animals would exist that have since gone extinct. There would be 90 percent more fish, a billion fewer tons of plastic, and 40 percent more phytoplankton (producers of half the planet’s oxygen) in the oceans. There would be twice as many trees covering the land and about three times more drinking water available from ancient aquifers. There would be about 80 percent more ice covering the northern pole during the summer season and 30 percent less carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere."

and that's all in 60 years.

Sally Vixxens wrote:

The earth's temperature has not risen in 16 years. It has been discovered that evidence was tampered with and manipulated by global warming scientists when their data did not support their global warming claims. Now some think tanks and scientific groups are predicting the coming of a period of cooling. Is it now the consensus that "global warming" was a cruel scientific hoax thrust upon the western world in an attempt to redistribute money from the well-to-do countries to the poorer nations?

You realize that it is 2013 and we all have the internet and can look up the data? The earth has certainly warmed over the last 16 years. Saying that it hasn't doesn't make it true.

Your point?

No Way wrote:

Sally Vixxens wrote:

The earth's temperature has not risen in 16 years. It has been discovered that evidence was tampered with and manipulated by global warming scientists when their data did not support their global warming claims. Now some think tanks and scientific groups are predicting the coming of a period of cooling. Is it now the consensus that "global warming" was a cruel scientific hoax thrust upon the western world in an attempt to redistribute money from the well-to-do countries to the poorer nations?

You realize that it is 2013 and we all have the internet and can look up the data? The earth has certainly warmed over the last 16 years. Saying that it hasn't doesn't make it true.

Global Warming? Temperature Up 'Very Close to Zero' Over 15 Years

June 24, 2013 - 12:56 PM

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A flock of Geese fly past the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets near Emmett, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

(CNSNews.com) – In a June 20 interview with Spiegel Online, German climate scientist Hans von Storch said that despite predictions of a warming planet the temperature data for the past 15 years shows an increase of 0.06 or “very close to zero.”

“That hasn't happened,” Storch said. “In fact, the increase over the last 15 years was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) – a value very close to zero.”

Spiegel asked Storch why the Earth’s temperature has not risen significantly in the past 15 years despite 400 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) being emitted into the atmosphere from human activities.

“So far, no one has been able to provide a compelling answer to why climate change seems to be taking a break,” said Storch, a professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg and director of the Institute for Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany.

“We're facing a puzzle,” Storch said. “Recent CO2 emissions have actually risen even more steeply than we feared.

“As a result, according to most climate models, we should have seen temperatures rise by around 0.25 degrees Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 10 years,” he added.

“That hasn't happened,” Storch said. “In fact, the increase over the last 15 years was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a value very close to zero.

Storch said the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would have to address these facts in its next climate assessment report due out late next year.

The interview includes this exchange about what this 15-year data showing virtually no rise in the Earth’s temperature means going forward.

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I'm not sure what data he's using, but 9 out of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred during that time frame.

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