Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/31/2009 4:45:43 AM PST by saganite
An especially cold year in North America in 2008 led some members of the public and the media to question the scientific consensus on human-induced global warming. In addition, the cool global temperatures during the past decade may appear to contrast with the warming expected due to human influence.
To clarify the roles of human influence and natural climate variability, Perlwitz et al. used observed temperature data and a suite of climate model simulations to analyze factors contributing to the 2008 North American temperature conditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Translation: We’ll take the raw data, throw it out, and give you data that shows warming. And we’ll do it with FEELING. And we’ll do it with CONSENSUS!
But AP told us months ago this didn't happen.
Consensus is why Pluto is no longer a planet. It doesn’t mean that the reality of Pluto has changed, only that they say it has.
More idiocy from the idiots and more lunacy from the lunatics.
Just another day in “science.” Proving once again that no human endeavor is free from human corruption.
Backtracking at the speed of heat! Well, not really. There’s less of that these days. We’re getting a taste of real winter here this weekend.
Man is arragant. He can't predict climate. He can't even get the 24 hour weather right half the time.
The way these guys perform science is similar to how people find the face of Elvis on a piece of burnt toast.
The Farmer’s Almanac also predicted a colder than normal winter everywhere but the SouthEast (normal there) in the US. In fact, it predicted bitter cold. Haven’t seen that yet but we’re just getting started.
The article itself says only they reached a conclusion without any of their reasons. If they felt the article was important enough to print they could have found room for a few more paragraphs
This story accentuates the continuing surrender of science to political influence. You notice the whole article is based on “a suite of climate models”. It does not take a scientific background to understand that using computer modeling to explain climate change that global warming computer modeling could not predict is a joke.
Real Scientists need to speak out to protect their profession before all science is questioned with mistrust. As for Science Magazine?
There is a link on the same page you link
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2008 Likely To Be One Of The Top-Ten Warmest Years
ScienceDaily (Jan. 8, 2008) — 2008 is set to be cooler globally than recent years say Met Office and University of East Anglia climate scientists, but is still forecast to be one of the top-ten warmest years.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080104091616.htm
Science daily usually links to the original source for their info. If you’re interested in more detail you could go to the source material.
Here’s what the “climate model simulations” say: If the temperature goes up, it’s man-made global warming. If the temperature goes down, it’s natural variability.
It’s so easy, even a fifth grader can do it.
Well said. I fully agree. The entire scientific enterprise is in danger of being discredited and becoming propagandistic. We are well on our way back to Nazi science, where science serves the interests of the Reich.
They did say the natural variability was masking the GW and it would have been worse if not for that. ;^)
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