Posted on 08/12/2005 5:14:24 PM PDT by neverdem
Wake me when the world ends....(snore)
Melting and shrinking glaciers as well as various temperature records from the earth's surface, weather ballons and satellites, IIRC.
And if the Yellowstone basin erupts, or there is an asteroid impact on the earth, or if there is a nuclear war, the warming rate will be –110 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.
So what’s their point? If everything goes really, really well we will have only a 0.15-degree increase per decade??
Some should certainly hang it up, but not the ones identified.
No technically informed person I know has denied global warming; just the cause of it.
No one with an IQ over refrigerator temperature can conclude that this rise in unique and not natural.
A casual glance at the temperature record for the last 400,000 years clearly shows the futility of being able to separate the confounding effect of man-made activities on the hundreds of recorded naturally occuring wide temperature fluctuations.
End of non-story.
That's what global warming fanatics have always depended on. Remember though, 83% of all statistics are lies.
> "The new warming trend is still well below ideas of
> dramatic or catastrophic warming."
And slow enough to allow ample time to take steps, if
any steps are indeed indicated - irrespective of the
cause of the warming.
So what is the correlation between Earth temps and
Solar insolation?
Do we want to loft a giant sunshade?
I have this great idea! I'm going to put in a cork distributorship.
My new slogan: Corks to stop global warming!
Cow size corks extra. Hippopotamus size corks extra extra!
Predicting long time scale climatic trends using the data they cite is like extrapolating the entire contents of the Los Angeles Yellow Pages by the contents of the first page. Ice cores which still only record the geologically recent indicate that large climate swings both up and down are commonplace. Just another attempt to justify the removal of certain refrigerants from the market and the continued existence of the industry hampering nanny state.
Remember the global cooling scare in the mid 70's?
Just think how bad off we'd be if we reacted to those scientists warnings and had spent $Trillions over the last 30 years trying to warm the planet.
I still am waiting for the environmentalists to use the same computer models to "predict" the past. We know a lot more about the past and it would give us great insight into how accurate their predictions for the future are.
Reconciling model trends by making adjustments in basic parameters is unimpressive. And it is surprising that the article would reference the IPCC original projections, given that the IPCC's data are known to have been cooked and have been decisively discredited years since. This whole area of "science" (loosely termed) has been compromised by political Lysenko-ization. I wouldn't trust a one of these so-called "researchers." Sadly we just know too much these days about how scientists will readily lie for money, prestige, tenure, what have you.
Back in the 70s, the envirokooks here in Arizona said that "global cooling" was happening because the Saquaro cactii were moving further south towards Phoenix. Now that we have settled on "global warning," I haven't seen any indications that they have started moving north. They are still in the same place I've known them to be for the past 50 years. Go figure.
but since we're at "Peak Oil" (barf alert) http://www.peakoil.net/ , CO2 emissions should be reaching a maximum right about now. Then using the CO2 logic, we're going to sink into another ICE AGE!!! Oh, THE HUMANITY!!!
From 800 a.d to about 1200 a.d the climate of the earth had to be quite a bit warmer for Greenland to have been settled and crops grown by the Vikings. Why didn't this tremendous warming result in millions of deaths around the world from rising ocean levels? Surely some historian would have recorded changes in water levels. I guess the world didn't end from the effects of this warming (/sarcasm).
Oh my god, almost a whole degree increase per century. We're all gonna die!!!! (yuk,yuk)
It's all China's fault. And India's. And, of course, Bush's.
Guess we better start building those nuke plants.
NO climate model has ever been validated.
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