Posted on 09/29/2009 11:40:02 PM PDT by Lorianne
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.
And here’s the thing: I’m not engaging in hyperbole. These days, dire warnings aren’t the delusional raving of cranks. They’re what come out of the most widely respected climate models, devised by the leading researchers. The prognosis for the planet has gotten much, much worse in just the last few years.
What’s driving this new pessimism? Partly it’s the fact that some predicted changes, like a decline in Arctic Sea ice, are happening much faster than expected. Partly it’s growing evidence that feedback loops amplifying the effects of man-made greenhouse gas emissions are stronger than previously realized. For example, it has long been understood that global warming will cause the tundra to thaw, releasing carbon dioxide, which will cause even more warming, but new research shows far more carbon locked in the permafrost than previously thought, which means a much bigger feedback effect.
The result of all this is that climate scientists have, en masse, become Cassandras — gifted with the ability to prophesy future disasters, but cursed with the inability to get anyone to believe them.
And we’re not just talking about disasters in the distant future, either. The really big rise in global temperature probably won’t take place until the second half of this century, but there will be plenty of damage long before then.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
LOL! Funny stuff. Garbage in, garbage out. The amount of garbage is equal to the size of the expected government grant.
Krugman needs to get out of the office a little more often. The world is not ending.
Saw this in my paper this AM...can’t wait for the dissenters to pop up on FR and cram it down Krug’s face.
The Socialist economic hack Krugman is adding ignorance and incompetence to his usual dishonesty by lying about climate change now, including recycling the thoroughly discredited ‘consensus’ canard that even Al Gore has given up on and relying on worthless climatic models for his predictions while ignoring all facts. Plus I see that the Leftist propaganda rag NYT is trying to peddle Krugman’s BS.
The earth has been steadily warming since the last ice age. Climate has never been static.
I look forward to the day the NYT closes its doors.
I swear, that thing had the ugliest hind end I’d ever seen on a car.
Funny how the warming at mid levels of the atmosphere around the equator predicted by these models never occurred...
Funny how the polar caps on Mars warmed at the same time earth was warming in the early 90's...
Funny how Antarctica is at record ice levels...
Funny how the sun went from being unusually active to unusually quiet...
Is the lack of hurricanes this year due to globull warming?
The world is cooling, sea levels are falling, ice is spreading, there are fewer extreme weather events, and it was hotter 1000 years ago, yet the myth of global warming is providing governments the excuse to micromanage every aspect of our lives, with Al Gore now openly calling for a carbon tax on the energy we use.
Following the end of the Sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998 leveled out and are now plummeting.
But such figures won’t deter the agenda of control freaks like Al Gore, who last night publicly called for a carbon tax to be imposed on the use of fossil fuels at a time when even middle class families are struggling to pay the bills as a result of a crippled economy, soaring oil prices and inflation.
What is it about the Left that leads to this complete disconnect between reality and their perceptions? Is it a form of schizophrenia?
have failed to predict the lower temps of the last ten years.
Did their model predict this...
U.S. Northeast May Have Coldest Winter in a Decade
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=amm7GJfWypJE
Yesterday, Sept 29th, was Trofim Lysenko’s birthday. He would have been 111 years old this year. I bet Krugman wrote this in his honor.
Great info rebutting the lefties lies on global warming
Why is it every time I read something by Krugman the word a$$hole comes to mind?
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