Posted on 05/22/2009 7:16:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A new study, which researchers have called "the most exhaustive end-to-end analysis of climate change impacts yet performed", predicts that global warming could be twice as bad as previous estimates had suggested.
Published this month in the Journal of Climate, the MIT-based research found a 90% probability that worldwide surface temperatures will rise at least 9 degrees by 2100.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
It was 9C that is 13F according to the last report posted this morning.
Or not.
don’t you think if weather could be predicted that farmers would be the richest segment of the population?
Newsflash: I won’t be here, nor will anyone I know, ergo I don’t care.
We’re going to do ourselves in by other methods way before any global warming does.
Is that with, or without, the hockey stick?
And here I forgot to wear my hip boots today...
I am going out on a limb...any predicting, by 2100, global temperatures will stay the same. If I am wrong...please come & find me for an apology...:o)
Someone needs to tell this guy.
And I'm going to the bank to request some of that gummint money.....er.....I mean, a loan using my "vacation" property as collateral!
WWWWeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Ain't socialism a kick tho!?
Pshaw..!
That’s nothing - The average temperature in the Northern hemisphere has risen thirty degrees in the past three months!
Can they accurately predict what the temperature is going to be this July?
I didn’t think so.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H. L. Mencken
“The one thing everyman fears is the unknown. When presented this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of well being granted to them by World Government.” — Henry Kissinger, Amiens, France, 1991
Global water crisis...Global food shortage...Ozone hole.....Oceans dying....Global deforestation.....
I think the ‘global warming Boogyman” has just about outlived his 15 minutes of fame.
Wondering what the Moonbats will come up with next...
OH NO!! WE’VE GOT TO BUY BARRY’S LITTLE DEATHTRAP CARS.. ER.. HYPRIDS .. and vote for Socialism or we’re all going to die!!
.. so does this mean we’re going to see them ramping up this panic again? .. Oh ugh! .. that’s means we’ll see algore’s mug again? oh yuk.
Looks like we should stock up on mittens and hats.
Projections are always your agenda glorifed, but it's in truth just a powerball lottery pick off some shareware numbers generation program.
This new “study”, which was just published, could not possibly have included recent measured data that shows that the Atlantic conveyor does not behave at all like it was thought...thus making all computer “studies” meaningless.
Also, most projections have the world in a cooling period for the next 15-25 years (or more).
The BS meter is reading “high”
Well...I’m not sure that’s my idea of an ideal hot-day adult beverage... ;-)
This prediction, on the other hand, is the usual fantasy. It is no doubt based on the “latest models” and the “latest data” (which in the case of surface temperature measurements has been skewed upwards by shoddy scientific method, whatever the motive).
Note that it’s not “climate change” it’s “global warming” - if it were global cooling NONE of the proposed actions make sense. Since the climate is, in fact, cooling, we’ll see how long the charade can continue before there’s serious revolt. I suggest doing whatever you can to stop this thing, since long-term policy, trillions of dollars, and our future standard of living are all at stake!
RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
Man oh man, are we back on this global warming kick again....all the rave is cooling, cooling man, cooling.
But, the bullshite will increase 200%, so don’t worry about the temp. increase.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! I must run and tell the Messiah!
No problemo. Let’s just have Obama abort ALL babies. Without any progeny to worry about, who cares what the world will be like in 90 years? Eat, drink and be merry.
It's like the story of the Three Little Pigs. The practical, skeptical and resourceful Pig who did not panic and built his house from brick, wound up saving and taking care of the other Liberal irresponsible Piggies.
Damn, I hate that thought!
Nothing but pure, unfiltered, premium bullsh*t
Oh, goody! Another pack of geeks playing with a multi-million dollar SimEarth, and the sky is falling.
The whole climate-modelling business is the same sort of hubris that caused the financial crisis: people thinking they are so smart that they can predict a chaotic dynamical system with incomplete information. Market, climate, they both have the same properties that make medium-to-long term prediction intractable.
(And I’m betting their general circulation models still us the semi-infinite atmosphere solutions to the greenhouse equations, afflicting them not only with attempting to do the impossible—long term prediction of a system governed by non-linear PDE’s—but a healthy dose of “Garbage In”.)
Nine degrees Celsius before 2100 AD means one degree C per decade. Not too awful hard to track. I’ll try to watch. I’m admittedly skeptical - hard mid-May frost zapped lotsa hickory and walnut buds in my yard the other day.
“(And I’m betting their general circulation models still us the semi-infinite atmosphere solutions to the greenhouse equations, afflicting them not only with attempting to do the impossible—long term prediction of a system governed by non-linear PDE’s—but a healthy dose of “Garbage In”.)”
One of the macro-level issues with the models is whether increasing temperatures are a net “cloud cover reducer” or “cloud cover increaser”. The models currently in favor are in the first category, so increasing temperatures cause fewer clouds on average, and temperatures increase (positive feedback). It’s more likely that, barring other factors, increasing temperatures cause more clouds, which would cause negative feedback (more reflected energy, and less heating). There are many other complex areas that’re questionable, but clouds in particular are highly complex, difficult to model correctly, and as you say, chaotic
The other inputs that’re missing in all current models as far as I’m aware is any meaningful solar variability (this also varies in a complex way and isn’t well enough understood to model IMO), as well as volcanic activity. A few large volcanic eruptions, not all that unlikely, could alter the climate quite a bit over the coming decades.
Where are you at - you don’t have a homepage setup.
AND sourced "Ecoworldly"
LOL!!
Hmmm... Still quiescent, huh. God's answer to algorbull worming into our wallets.
9°? Heck temps are up at least 50°F just in the past two months! We’ll all be roasted by summer. Roasted I tell ya!
Hmmm... may be that’s why yesterday we had the LOWEST high temperature on record for the date here in AZ...
LOL
I think they just want to suffocate the trees.
Seasonal waterfront? (obacure Spring in the Red RIver Valley joke...)
Yabbut, the MSM and the 'political' "scientists" are still performing CPR on it while rigor mortis sets in...trying to ride that crisis into the sunset.
Where are I at? Northwestern half of northeastern Pennsylvania. Rocks, rattlesnakes, and Republicans. Our governor, Philadelphian Phast Eddie Rendell hates us, judging by the way he’s cut way back on road repairs and snowplowing. My whole county only has 6000 people. In a century and a half, we’ve seen tiny economic banglets from old-growth pine and hemlock, hard and soft coal, dairy farming, and re-growth hardwood timber. Now it’s super-deep natural gas frac wells.
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