Posted on 11/15/2007 3:17:17 PM PST by chessplayer
A REPORT by Australian scientists has warned that the world is warming faster than predicted by the United Nations' top climate change body.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
It’s spring in Australia. What did they expect?
I still have roses blooming in November. I’m all for more warming.
“...the world is warming faster than predicted.”
Good. Maybe it won’t hit 22 below at my mountain getaway place this winter.
The headline could just as easily read “Global Warming Better Than Expected”.
Headline seekers?
It can’t be worse than predicted....................
It’s above zero now. It was -6 earlier and is +4 now. The sun is setting so that is probably about it for the day, weatherwise.
I bet the Australian researchers don't give a damn about your bloomin' roses.
All the more reason for Al to run.
He’s the only one who can save us.
Every single year of my life, it has gotten warm in the spring in the northern hemisphere and in the fall in the southern hemisphere.
LOL!!!....
There is no noticeable increasing during the Summer averages.
They’re just trying to get a call from “Coast to Coast”.
Good, I could do with a little warming. I have been trying to keep the heat down in order to cut our propane bill and I am tired of freezing.
Maybe the 1 to 3 inches of SNOW predicted for tonight will turn to rain due to climatic warming.
Must be all their hot air......
“The report found if current trends continue the world’s temperature will rise approximately three degrees celsius by the end of this century, relative to pre-industrial temperatures - well above what are considered dangerous levels.”
There is absolutely nothing to support the predictions that temperatures will rise. Neither that they will fall. But the article itself says:
“The report, prepared by Dr Graeme Pearman, former head of the CSIRO’s atmospheric research unit, found temperatures and greenhouse pollution were rising faster than forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”
Therefore their last predictions were wrong by their admission (again). Weather is a major component of climate. One would think that if the computation model existed to predict these chaotic events that they would work for NEXT WEEK. They don’t, by demonstated proof, they don’t.
“The report also says that recent scientific work suggests the capacity for the land and oceans to absorb carbon dioxide emissions is declining.”
What work? Tell us, show us your findings. Why are Hansen’s codes for his models not published? In real science the researchers show their work.
“This science report shows that it is even more critical than previously thought that we act quickly to reduce greenhouse pollution and make the transition to a clean-energy economy.”
Why? It is 1 degree C? That is about 3 degrees F folks. Are they saying that the civilized world can’t adapt to a 3 degree change given one hundred years (assuming that there is validity to their predictions which there is not)?
“And I am supposed to believe that they can predict 20 year from now, when this caught them by surprise.”
— Excellent point. Plus they can’t tell us the weather for next Tuesday with much certainty, but they KNOW what the climate will be in 25 years.
Oh good grief! Is this GARBAGE still around? Is Al Bore down under?
20 years from now - they can’t even get this afternoon correct.
Al’s book/movie sales must be down.
Coolwater explained the situation at a conference on global warming in Vancouver, Canada. “As long as our whale blubber holds out, we’re golden.” He added, “Seriously, you can do everything with this stuff.” He then graphically proved his point by driving his whale blubber-fueled Eskimo car home to a whale blubber dinner, prepared by his wife, Jane Coolwater, who is herself eighty percent whale blubber.
Good! The natural cycle of warming and cooling that has gone on for millions of years is going on as usual.
Suppose its true. What do we do about it?
China, Japan, Brazil, India and other major polluters are not going to sacrifice economic growth to reduce global warming. So, it falls on the USA which can do little to combat GLOBAL warming. Instead, Gore, Clinton, etc will use this as an excuse to raise taxes and give their friends tons of cash.
End of story.
LOL!!!!!!!!!! I need that!
In other words, “the climate is getting better”.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Actually, there has been NO global warming since the El Nino peak year of 1998.
For nine years now, temps have been stable, NOT increasing, but decreasing in fact just slightly. So, I have no idea what they are pretending - unless they use a time-weighted average ans are plotting the total rise since 1972.
No, wait - make the base 1980.
1990? Every shortening of the time frame - with the same final temp, will make the rate “seem” higher.
I liked it better when they made Godzila and Rodan scareflicks with the cardboard skyscrapers.
We got to start stopping all activity by the planet earth on itself, and the sooner the better!
I used to think nobody was that crazy.
From the article, "The Climate Institute is an independent body formed in 2005 to educate the public about climate change and promote practical solutions."
IOW, more hogwash from the wacko's.
If Hansen's models were worth a bucketful of spit, he could input the weather for the 1901-1910 decade and predict the weather for 1911-1920.
It can't. The model is easily, demonstrably and fatally flawed, incomplete, inadequate, delusional... whatever you wish to call it.
It's all irrelevant.
If any human being believes that man could have stopped cataclysmic events from the distant geologic past, he belongs in a rubber room.
“What they don’t tell you is that most of the what little increase there is, comes in the Winter, extending the growing seasons, and giving those that need heat in the Winter a tiny break on the heating bills.
There is no noticeable increasing during the Summer averages.
Actually, there has been NO global warming since the El Nino peak year of 1998.
For nine years now, temps have been stable, NOT increasing, but decreasing in fact just slightly. So, I have no idea what they are pretending - unless they use a time-weighted average ans are plotting the total rise since 1972.
No, wait - make the base 1980.
1990? Every shortening of the time frame - with the same final temp, will make the rate “seem” higher.”
That’s just a glitch in our model. Gimme a minute and I’ll adjust the model, and then you’ll see. What do I have to do to make you commoners PANIC? I NEED ATTENTION, DAMMIT!
TC
Note, despite the headline, the report says that greenhouse gases are increasing more rapidly than expected. Not that temperature is increasing more rapidly than expected.
Yes, he needs to lead us. Only he can save us from the Capitalist Pigs that caused Global Warming. Also, he's the only person who can save us from ManBearPig.
READ: The Climate Institute is an falming Liberal Organization body formed in 2005 to brainwash, scare and makeup bogus statistics about climate change and demand Economic Taxation to promote solutions that can't work in any area other than the windmills of their own minds!
I never thought about it that way: You’re right.
Cute doggie.
Pure, unadulterated crap. CO2 concentrations have been much, much higher before man was around.
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Just blame me. That hadn’t calculated my trip to California last weekend.
Jan 20, 2001?
Then I distinctly remember the Winters of 1979 and 1980 as being unusually cold, at least in the NE. The main advantage being that it killed off those dang tent caterpillars because of the extended deep freezes.
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