Posted on 12/02/2009 8:02:02 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Where is the drastic climate change we keep hearing about?
It's the science scandal of the year. A thousand e-mails and 2,000 other documents were swiped from the server of Britain's Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University and posted on the Web. Many were truly embarrassing to the writers, while others have been quoted out of context and falsely used as "proof" that global warming is "a hoax."
But in one e-mail, a top "warmist" researcher admits it's a "travesty" that "we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment." (Emphasis added.) Further, "any consideration of geoengineering [is] quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not!"
"Geoengineering," as in the Waxman-Markey "cap and trade" bill that passed the House and that the conservative Heritage Foundation estimates will lop $9.4 trillion off the economy? The one that President Barack Obama plans to support at next week's U.N. Climate Cause Conference? Yes, that "geoengineering."
As it happens, the writer of that October 2009 e-mail--Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the warmist bible, the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report--told Congress two years ago that evidence for manmade warming is "unequivocal." He claimed "the planet is running a 'fever' and the prognosis is that it is apt to get much worse."
But Trenberth's "lack of warming at the moment" has been going on at least a decade. "There has been no [surface-measured] warming since 1997 and no statistically significant warming since 1995," observes MIT meteorologist Richard Lindzen. "According to satellite data, global warming stopped about 10 years ago and there's no way to know whether it's happening now," says Roy Spencer, former NASA senior scientist for climate studies.
Don't tell that to Al Gore. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
He said, shivering and pulling at the corners of his Snuggie.
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It seems you’ve linked the wrong article.
I wish global warming... ahem... climate change was true... it’s currently -15 degrees F and falling at the moment where I am, and it’s only the second day of December. Well I guess after further ponderance I am experiencing climate change afterall, because it did get to 9 degrees for the high today. Our high tomorrow won’t crawl above zero. Come on global warming! Where are you when I need you?! Or at least a wee bit of climate change.
What’s the temperature supposed to be??
“Graham” “Ruddick” sure “likes” to use “lots” of “quotes” to “express” his “misguided” “sense” of “ridicule”.
Say what??
Exactly. When I hear that temperatures will rise by 2C, my immediate thought is about the baseline. How do we derive a baseline? What is the standard deviation (i.e., how much does it fluctuate)? Anyone who knows statistics or has plotted time series data knows about the power of picking the right time frame to show a trend.
From a scientific standpoint, I would be more concerned with rates of increase over absolute rises. Fortunately, we seem to be just fine.
Your link took me to a page talking about GM... not the right link.
This is the correct link.
Before we vote on Climate Control Legislation, do we get to vote on what temperature to set it at?
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