A new study by a team of leading climate scientists suggests that the effect of carbon dioxide this century might be small if not undetectable when compared to natural climate variability.
Global surface temperature is and always has been the key climate parameter. Whatever is happening to the Earth’s climate balance, it must, sooner or later, be reflected in the global annual average temperature, and not just in regional variations. [emphasis, links added]
But therein lies what is to some an inconvenience as the changes in the global temperature this century are open to differing interpretations including the suggestion that increases in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are not needed to explain the changes we have seen in the last 20 years or so.
It’s a conclusion that many would dismiss as coming from climate “skeptics,” or downright deniers.
But what if it’s the view of scientists from two of the world’s leading institutes researching climate change; the University of Oxford and the US National Center for Atmospheric Research?
The paper is here.
Funny, I was just thinking of all the top tier scientists who have been saying this for years but have been ignored or called climate deniers by media and politicians. John Christy, William Happer, Ross Mckitrrick, Richard Lindzen, Anthony Watt and on and on.
Democracy is tyranny unless bound by an intelligent AND knowledgeable electorate. The media, bureaucracy and politicians have certainly done their part to keep people in the dark. (On multiple topics)
‘Democracy is tyranny unless bound by an intelligent AND knowledgeable electorate’ … truer words were never spoken better Johnboy.
The ‘ Climatistas ‘ are either incredibly stupid or exceedingly corrupt. Most here know the answer to that!
As for the blind followers of this cult, the sheep, I say Baaaa; Humbug, and a pox on your house.
My quality of life in my senior years is suffering for this mendacious crud.
AC
There is that intelligence and knowledgeable thing again. A definite canadian deficiency. As one long past his best before date I am with you on the quality of life issue.
Interesting …. I feel the same. I have had the last three years of my dotage stolen by Global Drug Dealers, AKA ‘Big Pharma’ and their government and media accomplices.
I am 80 on next birthday. I should be enjoying a hard earned retirement, but I haven’t seen my family for three years. Now our property is about to plummet in value, who knows what the juvenile minds in the Trudeau clubhouse will come up with to make us suffer just a little more.
Then there are the war mongers of the US Democrat Part under clown puppet Biden who seem determined to initiate a major third world war.
Not what I had envisioned just a couple of decades ago. But we have watched the rise of the destructive left and let them get away with it. The left has destroyed our peace and prosperity with greed, and lust for power.
Even if the majority of climate scientists from both sides of the argument start to align with each other that anthropogenic warming isn’t anywhere near being the main driver of global warming/climate change, the narrative that humans are bad will be where the battle is. Facts do not dictate policy very much these days.
Blasphemy rarely converts believers.
“What new study ?”, says the MSM. “That nonsense has already been debunked and there’s no need to talk about it.” You’ll never hear a peep out of any of them on the matter. It’s as if they issued the Great Barrington Declaration.
DINGDINGDNGDINGDING!!! We have a winnah!
They’ve ignored all evidence to the contrary todate. Why would they suddenly do an about face now? Oh, because it’s a “new study”? Pulease…
Once again, people, yer tryin’ ta logic a Prog. They are not rational people. The only way they’ll ever come around is if they physically feel the pain they’re causing everyone else: freezing & starving. Even then it’ll take a few good sessions.
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Masters of the Obvious.
CO2 is not now nor ever has been a problem. Too little of it will be a hell of a problem as we will die.
“CO2 is not now nor ever has been a problem. Too little of it will be a hell of a problem as we will die.”
It’s only a trace gas, in fact. If the atmosphere was a 100 dollar bill, the CO2 level 30 years ago would have been 3 cents. It is now 4 cents.
BIG DEAL.
The ill defined consensus became a politically driven business plan.. More or less the moment politicians got involved is the moment the problem (real or imagined) was put on life support.. Hard wired deficiencies in both the problem and the solutions get ignored in the name of progress..
Its not the first or the last road to nowhere.. But I do think its the largest.. None of it is practically or economically feasible and it will all have to be replaced 10X over before we get it right.. If we get it right..
Morons leading the charge.. The media face of the global warming agenda are children and activist lay-abouts.. The science behind it was custom crafted in cahoots with the activism.. Under the wing of the money hungry UN that’s mitigating a problem that’s indistinguishable from business as usual.. World welfare..
I know I’m convinced that play time is over.. I see your raise and call.. Bring the pain and suffering so everybody can see what and who you really are.. A theatre troupe..
A energy crisis that requires specific fine tuning.. Then the government sets off a 5 billion dollar stink bomb of FREE green energy money to distract the industry with TREATS..
I own two dogs and I know the power of treats.. The only condition is you have to sit to get it.. We end up with a obvious problem in energy production.. Where one might expect something be done to avoid collapse or failure.. Then they call the dogs for more treats..
Why is it your not allowed to feed the animals in the zoo again?.. Its because they are not green energy university graduates.. These upper class rich kids need jobs and what better way to do that than put them on the public dime.. I call this welfare for the rich.. They call it saving the world..
Fear gets power. Simple as that. Mencken said it perfectly.
“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.”
This fear translates into trillions of dollars of new revenue streams. A practical smorgasbord for the corrupt, greedy and grifters.
I like to call it “fleecing the sheep”.
northernont
And do you think that maybe this was learned from the religious cults, and their BS about HELL. Yes , religion thrives on a fear and reward model.
Butt, there is none so blind as he who WILL not see!
Hardly a surprise considering that we’ve known for years that temperature operates independently of co2.
https://courses.seas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/Courses/global-change-debates/Sources/Temperature-leads-CO2-in-ice-cores/more/Monnin-2001.pdf
Religion is dogmatic and faith based.
Science is discovery and fact based.
Religion and science both have their uses, but the left have confused science with religion. ‘Denier’ has religious overtones. Science welcomes skepticism, new information and new explanations. It’s called ‘discovery’.
Karl
” Science welcomes skepticism”, science is skepticism, answers and absolutes, not so much.
Religion is about unsupported absolutes! (AKA: BS)
I gave up sending good news like this to my climate alarmist friends years ago. They would avert their eyes and recite, “ya but the vast majority of scientists…”
I don’t usually quote scripture but it is uncannily appropriate.
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” – KJV, Matthew 7:6.
I guess I’m the only one that actually read the linked document, including the author of this blog!
Minimal discussion of CO2 and global warming – it’s almost a ‘given’ in the paper without any analysis because that wasn’t the focus. What they were focusing on was effective radiative forcing (ERF) and its increase, which is likely due to the reduction of aerosols dumped into the atmosphere in the last few decades.
No good news here, except the fact that historical environmental laws on aerosols likely contributed to helping some heat escape the atmosphere faster than scientists had thought.