The Unraveling of Global Warming is Accelerating

watts Up With That? ^ | April 19, 2013 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Uh oh, somebody in Germany in a position to influence others in the Green movement has started thinking for himself, shrugging off suggestions from a climate scientist that “its all in his head”.

Pierre Gosselin reports about a story by lefty journalist Harald Martenstein of Die Zeit:

“I was ready to open my home to the Schröders as soon as they would no longer be able to take the 60°C heat in the shade. But instead it got colder and colder. At Uckermark in the wintertime it was -20°C for weeks.”

Martenstein also noticed that Britain had endured its coldest winter in 30 years, Florida got covered by icicles, and the cold seemed to be spreading everywhere. So he pleaded that people should emit more CO2 - so that he could stay warm.

His plea, however, prompted an invitation from a “scientist at a very nice climate institute“:

He showed me tables and graphs that clearly depicted it was getting warmer. He believed that I was just a victim of my own subjective imagination. Memory can fool you. One thinks that during childhood it was warm from May to September, but in reality its was warm only 3 days, and it is those 3 days that one remembers intensively. The tables from climate scientists, on the other hand, do not lie.”

Martenstein then recounts the past winter and how it seemed to him as being the longest and hardest he could remember, but telling himself that it was probably just his warped subjectivity acting up again. He writes:

But suddenly I read in the paper that a number of climate scientists had changed their minds. Now they were saying it is not going to get warmer, but colder, at least in Europe. Whatever happened to the tables I now ask myself.”

This kind of science would never fly in biology or physics, Martenstein writes. ”But with climate science it seems they are allowed to get away with everything.”

Read it all here:

Mother Of German Green Weeklies, Die Zeit, Shocks Readers…Now Casts Doubt On Global Warming!

[Dick Vomer]

does this mean I can keep my light bulbs, get my old toilets back, drive my V-8 and get rid of the ethanol that chews up the motor?

[Steely Tom]

As another FReeper observed:

"To the makers of climate models, reality is a special case."

[Red Badger]

Does this mean I can’t have a banana plantation in Tennessee?.....

[Red Badger]

Climate models are to science what tinker toys are to the construction industry.......

[showme_the_Glory]

When talking global climate change, do not let the pesky facts get in the way of a good theory.

[bray]

Don’t feel bad, I have a bunch of beachfront property in AZ I have to unload.

Pray for America to Wake Up

[Marine_Uncle]

As where aware the Brits among other northern EU nations got hit pretty hard this winter. The kids once again know what snow looks and feels like.

[Mastador1]

Here is a link to a NASA article that states C02 rather than being responsible warming actually cause cooling! Up is down black is white!

[Mastador1]

Here actually is the link!
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Nothing wrong with talking about the weather. People have been doing it for years. The problem is when people start to take it all seriously.

[Droso_Phila]

Actually, if I understand correctly, that’s why they want to get away from the name “global warming”; it gives the impression that everything is heating up.

Apparently, the models for climate change that predict higher temperature generally imply more energy in the system, which makes for worse storms in both directions - both hotter summers and colder, more vicious winters - or so I’ve been told. As another person posted in another thread, weather is what’s happening right now while climate is the average over time; you can have anomalies, it’s the overall change that’s important. So you can’t just take one thing alone like an awesomely cold winter in Germany or the near-record heat of 2012’s US summer and say “look, climate change does/doesn’t happen!”

It’s not my topic of interest, honestly, but it sounds like they at least have a working model. I think that the flimsiest portion is not that change happens, but how big an effect humans are having on it. Climate changing? Yeah; I’d buy that, that seems well-supported. Human greenhouse gas emissions the primary reason? Not sold yet; still looking for other explanations.

Mind you, this whole thing isn’t helped by the anti-global-warming lobby making those idiotic “CO2: we call it life” ads.

[Paladin2]

"...reality is a special case.."

LOL, now THAT's funny.

[JimRed]

The tables from climate scientists, on the other hand, do not lie.”

According to their own e-mail communications, the tables DID lie by repeatedly failing to include "inconvenient" readings.

[Paladin2]

CO2, It gives you life.

[Paladin2]

You've been here 3 daze?

Be careful, (and learn about zots).

[jdsteel]

CO2...plants breathe it in. You got something against plants?

[Droso_Phila]

Sorry; I guess that means I’ve offended someone? I’ll tread more lightly in the future.

[Hostage]

These are the same mindsets that warp an entire primate to human evolution theory based on observations in natural selection.

[Droso_Phila]

So much. It's my CO2 darn it; I need it for my soda pop.