What happens to global warming science when the Earth refuses to warm?

governmentgrantsfor.org ^ | 2/10/2012 | DWEAN

[Signalman]

Global warming: Been there, done that. Forward-looking folks are adjusting their fretting machinery now to something called Cycle 25. Button up your overcoats. Ice is on the way.

Global warming, which was mostly a scam invented by researchers looking for government grants, is over. The great warming phenomenon, which was supposed to have sent polar bears to vacation in Miami Beach by now, ended in 1997.

Britain’s Met Office, which tracks weather and makes forecasts, and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the source of much global warming research (some of it faked, some of it not), agree, according to the London Daily Mail, that Planet Earth could even be heading for an icy patch “to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the [frozen-over] Thames in the 17th century.” They call this Cycle 25.

The report of the findings in Old Blighty follows an op-ed essay in the Wall Street Journal, signed by 16 eminent scientists, including both physicists and other climate researchers, that the panic promoted over global warming is not now, and never has been, shared by “large numbers of scientists, many very prominent.”

More here… http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/31/pruden-when-the-earth-refuses-to-warm/ “World temperatures may end up a lot cooler than now for 50 years or more. It will take a long battle to convince some climate scientists that the sun is important. It may well be that the sun is going to demonstrate this on its own, without the need for their help.”—Henrik Svensmark, Denmark’s National Space Institute. Mail on Sunday, 29 January 2012

“Nature is about to carry out a very interesting experiment. Ten or 15 years from now, we will be able to determine much better whether the warming of the late 20th Century really was caused by man-made CO2, or by natural variability.”—Pal Brekke, Norwegian Space Centre, Mail on Sunday, 29 January 2012

“If temperatures continue to stay flat or start to cool again, the divergence between the models and recorded data will eventually become so great that the whole scientific community will question the current theories. The real issue is whether the model itself is accurate.”—Nicola Scafetta, Duke University, what government grants do i qualify for

It’s already happened.

They changed the name to ‘Climate Change’.

instead of global warming,it could be about the possible freezing or raining in the Sahara,ask the scientists or the weather forecasters,they never get anything wrong.

The US government has spent over $ 79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change. Where do we go to get our money back?

Seventy-Nine Billion dollars of Taxpayer money wasted

[Lancey Howard]

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The Cooling World

Newsweek, April 28, 1975

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There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. “A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,” warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.”

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. “Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.”

Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.

“The world’s food-producing system,” warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA’s Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, “is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago.” Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.

Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.

—PETER GWYNNE with bureau reports

The above is the text of Newsweek’s 1975 story on the trend toward global cooling. It may look foolish today, but in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s, bringing us today back to around 1940 levels. A PDF of the original is available here.

We invite readers interested in finding out about both sides of the debate over global warming to visit our website: Climate Debate Daily — Denis Dutton

[Longbow1969]

Oh that’s an easy one, the current “warmist” will just move on to the next crisis that needs lots of government funding, more regulation, more UN control, more taxes, more restraints on free markets, etc. Like all leftists, they’ll be no apologies for being wrong and no self reflection about having wasted so much of our time. They will fall back on what liberals always retreat to - which is essentially, “even if we were wrong we were right because we care and want to help people”.

Global warming has never been about science, it’s been about government control and a battle against capitalism.

Environmentalism is nothing more than socialism with a smile. If it isn’t global warming, it will be global cooling, or population bombs, or holes in the ozone layer, etc. It’s all BS, and all about government control of our lives.

[gorush]

No, they will just say that the economic devastation has saved the planet...you can’t win with these people, from their perspective, at least.

[Signalman]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/31/pruden-when-the-earth-refuses-to-warm/

[cripplecreek]

Global warming has never been about science, it’s been about government control and a battle against capitalism.

Exactly and its why I get irritated when I hear conservatives proclaim that we've won the fight. My power company is still shelving plans for coal fired plants and building wind farms instead. Meanwhile the company is telling me to expect a 3% rate hike that will end up being 15% or more.

[DuncanWaring]

Global warming, which was mostly a scam invented by researchers looking for government grants, is over.

Actually, it's a scam invented by misanthropes intent on driving us back into caves, subsisting on roots and bugs.

[American Constitutionalist]

They will still say it’s man’s fault... but, then again, they will redefine it and say, it’s the WHITE CHRISTIAN MAN’s from America fault.

[American Constitutionalist]

They will still say it’s man’s fault... but, then again, they will redefine it and say, it’s the WHITE CHRISTIAN MAN’s from America fault.

[American Constitutionalist]

They will still say it’s man’s fault... but, then again, they will redefine it and say, it’s the WHITE CHRISTIAN MAN’s from America fault.

[American Constitutionalist]

They will still say it’s man’s fault... but, then again, they will redefine it and say, it’s the WHITE CHRISTIAN MAN’s from America fault.

[American Constitutionalist]

They will still say it’s man’s fault... but, then again, they will redefine it and say, it’s the WHITE CHRISTIAN MAN’s from America fault.

[Karliner]

Gotcha!

[kralcmot]

wow

cinqomation

not sure if its a record

but its out there

[gusopol3]

Actually ,the CO₂ models can account for this. Currently, there's a dome of CO₂ built up over most of the continental U.S., leading to our fourth warmest January ever, for instance. Since it had to come from somewhere, there is a CO₂ deficit over central Europe, where they are having their coldest weather in a quarter century.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I would definitely encourage the Leftists in the scientific establishment to keep touting AGW just so they can make themselves look like the jackasses they truly are so they can reach an unparalleled pariah status never seen before in history.

[Hot Tabasco]

They will still say

over and over and over and over

[Hot Tabasco]

They will still say

and over

[Hot Tabasco]

They will still say

and over

[exDemMom]

Global warming, which was mostly a scam invented by researchers looking for government grants, is over.

Actually, the researchers can get the grants without inventing a crisis. All they need to do is convince the funding agencies that their particular area of research is necessary for human advancement. For instance, that climate research is needed to refine weather forecasting. Getting funding really isn't that difficult.

The real issue, I think, is that the "remedies" proposed for "global warming" all involve a significant change to our lifestyles and limitation of freedom. That has always been the goal of the left; "global warming" as they presented it was the perfect opportunity to reach their goal.