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Spectator Blogs (U.K.) ^ | October 16, 2009 | Melanie Philips

Posted on 10/16/2009 12:51:12 PM PDT by Schnucki

Marc Morano observes that the great iceberg of anthropogenic global warming theory is now fast disintegrating into the Sea of Reality. AGW zealots are indeed now facing a nightmarish conundrum. What to do to save their reputations and glittering careers as Chief Scientists, Presidents of the Royal Society, Government Ministers for Climate Change, Failed US Presidential Candidates Turned Nobel Prize-Winners, Journalistic Would-Be Stringers-Up of AGW-Deniers, green NGO empire-builders and professors whose entire livelihoods and academic status have accrued from more than two decades of peddling the biggest anti-science scam of all time but which is now threatening to expose them all to ridicule on an epic scale as global temperatures cool?

The answer is that they pretend that this is not happening.

The BBC’s brief and historic outbreak of sanity here last Friday when it asked timorously

What happened to global warming?
gave way to normal service today when it reported a prediction that the Arctic could be free of ice in the summer within two decades. The prediction was made by Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, who was speaking at the launch of the findings of the Catlin Arctic Survey:
Led by explorer Pen Hadow, the team’s measurements found that the ice-floes were on average 1.8m thick -- typical of so-called ‘first year’ ice formed during the past winter and most vulnerable to melting. The survey route -- to the north of Canada -- had been expected to cross areas of older ‘multi-year’ ice which is thicker and more resilient. When the ridges of ice between floes are included, the expedition found an average thickness of 4.8m.

Professor Wadhams said: ‘The Catlin Arctic Survey data supports the new consensus view - based on seasonal variation of ice extent and


(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 10/16/2009 12:51:12 PM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Schnucki

Personally, I think this cooling is God’s way of saying, “hey, your not as bright as you thought, now are you? Don’t have all the answer like you thought you had do you? Remember the Titanic?”


2 posted on 10/16/2009 12:55:36 PM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Schnucki
What to do to save their reputations and glittering careers as Chief Scientists, Presidents of the Royal Society, Government Ministers for Climate Change, Failed US Presidential Candidates Turned Nobel Prize-Winners, Journalistic Would-Be Stringers-Up of AGW-Deniers, green NGO empire-builders and professors whose entire livelihoods and academic status have accrued from more than two decades of peddling the biggest anti-science scam of all time but which is now threatening to expose them all to ridicule on an epic scale as global temperatures cool?

Do what the did back in the 1970's when the same gaggle of Creteians was pushing global cooling and the greenhouse effects of industrialization. The conventional wisdom was that the dust from industrialization would cut down on the amount of solar rays entering the earth and usher in a new ice age. The only solution was to turn the levers of political and economic power over to them so they could decide who got what was left of the diminishing resources in a fair and equitable manner.

They even elected their own president back then too. Some of us remember him as the all wise and great peanut farmer from Georgia.

3 posted on 10/16/2009 12:57:50 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Schnucki

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.


4 posted on 10/16/2009 12:58:07 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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5 posted on 10/16/2009 1:01:16 PM PDT by Hazwaste (Some people are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: MsLady

What I want solved is global IQ decreases.

These articles are pure stupidity. Even if we had a massive cooling trend, it would say absolutely nothing toward the issue about climate change having anything to do with man (anthropogenic, now).

We just climbed out of an ice age recently. The earth is warming as a trend within a larger cycle, and fluctuating in shorter cycles and micro-cycles.

Cooling trends don’t dismiss anthropogenic warming any more than warming trends prove it.


6 posted on 10/16/2009 1:03:00 PM PDT by z3n
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To: Schnucki

Inconvenient FACTS for Inconvenient People....

It’s VERY Orwellian to watch liberal Gore Worshippers deny these FACTS...


7 posted on 10/16/2009 1:04:11 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: MsLady
Personally, I think this cooling is God’s way of saying, “hey, your not as bright as you thought, now are you?

(Read this in a haughty British professor's accent)

It is my contention that we would be well into another Ice Age if not for mankinds current rate of production of green house gasses. As the current cooling trend shows, we are not doing enough. We need to increase green house gas production to stabalize our climate. It's either that or we are doomed...DOOMED I SAY.

8 posted on 10/16/2009 1:08:36 PM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: Schnucki
Al Gore Pictures, Images and Photos
9 posted on 10/16/2009 1:09:13 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: z3n

You know what I always think about. Take a look at the world at night. See how few places on the earth are lite up. Notice that about 2/3 rds. of the earth is covered by water, no one lives there. Global warming my tootsies.


10 posted on 10/16/2009 1:11:01 PM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Schnucki

My mind is made up. Don’t confuse me with the facts....

hh


11 posted on 10/16/2009 1:12:10 PM PDT by hoosier hick (Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
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To: Schnucki

Nothing will slow the Left’s progression for complete government control. Not facts, data, reality nor truth.


12 posted on 10/16/2009 1:12:48 PM PDT by deadrock (Liberty is a bitch that needs to be bedded on a mattress of cadavers.)
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To: Schnucki

Snow on the ground this morning in NH and MA...and it’s only October 16th.


13 posted on 10/16/2009 1:14:04 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: mkleesma
Snow on the ground this morning in NH and MA...and it’s only October 16th.

You Racist! (just practicing)

14 posted on 10/16/2009 1:20:59 PM PDT by NativeSon
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To: mkleesma

And two days of snow in north central Pennsylvania, too.

From the article: As Climate Skeptic (http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2009/10/telling-half-the-story-100-of-the-time.html) observes:

So — 11% of world’s land ice shrinking - Front page headlines. 89% of world’s land ice growing. Silence.

That’s why we should all note very carefully the warning delivered by the President of the United States, in his remarks accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, that climate change was an unacceptable threat that

“could forever damage the world that we pass on to our children.”

What an idjit, that Bammy. He just reads what’s on the teleprompter in front of him. He’s in over his head. He’s the little car-chasing dog who catches one and don’t know now what to do with it.


15 posted on 10/16/2009 1:27:35 PM PDT by flowerplough ( Pennsylvania today - New New Jersey meets North West Virginia.)
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To: Hazwaste; xcamel

Great pic...better off in the little boat!


16 posted on 10/16/2009 1:28:27 PM PDT by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: Sergio

lol.... I love the haughty British accent. It adds that extra touch of, you must know exactly what your talking about.


17 posted on 10/16/2009 1:30:35 PM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: mkleesma

Heh, yeah, I did my grocery shopping last night, getting home about 8pm. It was beginning to rain when I came out of the store, but five minutes later, as I pulled into our driveway, I realized it was little snowflakes coming down! I think this is the earliest we’ve ever had any snow, even just that little spurt, in the 21 years we’ve lived here in MA.


18 posted on 10/16/2009 1:34:45 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Snickering Hound

LOL...Oh lookie it’s Al, isn’t that cute. You know, global warming causes global cooling?


19 posted on 10/16/2009 1:34:45 PM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: mkleesma

This is even goofier. Is there such a word as, goofier? It’s been snowing here for a couple of weeks off and on, nothing much on the ground, not to unusual for here. Usually by now, the trees would have all turned and the leaves would be falling off or mostly gone. Yet, more than half the trees are still green.


20 posted on 10/16/2009 1:37:36 PM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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