Posted on 06/18/2013 2:18:28 PM PDT by lowbridge
“97 percent of those scientists we want to count believe in this claptrap!”
Kind of like those car repair insurance ads that claim “All future covered repairs will be paid directly to the shop.”
Silly me, I thought a “covered repair” was DEFINED as one they paid for. D’oh!
Scafetta is correct that his paper was misclassified. The sun gained about 1 W/m2 from 1900 to 2000 which is 1/4 watt distributed over the sphere of the earth. That's not going to cause much temperature change. OTOH Scafetta may include other effects of high solar activity like modulatin of the clouds. But those are somewhat speculative. So while the consensus does not include Scafetta it is still pretty strong.
The correct argument against the consensus nonsense is that the effects of mild warming are fewer storms (more northerly storm track and decreased temperature gradient from north to south). So claims of more storms are counter to the models and speculative at best. Claims of cooling from global warming are just ridiculous. It's obviously more subtle and may not be easy to explain. But it is the correct counterargument.
Global warming alarmists are starting to panic...
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