10 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. From Instapundit… “Stop the Democrats’ war against science.”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323485704578258172660564886.html?mod=WSJ_MostPopular_US
    “Historical analysis of wildfires around the world shows that since 1950 their numbers have decreased globally by 15%. Estimates published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show that even with global warming proceeding uninterrupted, the level of wildfires will continue to decline until around midcentury and won’t resume on the level of 1950—the worst for fire—before the end of the century.
    Claiming that droughts are a consequence of global warming is also wrong. The world has not seen a general increase in drought. A study published in Nature in November shows globally that “there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years.” The U.N. Climate Panel in 2012 concluded: “Some regions of the world have experienced more intense and longer droughts, in particular in southern Europe and West Africa, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central North America and northwestern Australia.”
    As for one of the favorites of alarmism, hurricanes in recent years don’t indicate that storms are getting worse. Measured by total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), hurricane activity is at a low not encountered since the 1970s. The U.S. is currently experiencing the longest absence of severe landfall hurricanes in over a century—the last Category 3 or stronger storm was Wilma, more than seven years ago.”
    I remember years ago Canadian national socialists prattling on the internet the same fake science lies, just like Obama… “hurricanes will get worse and worse…”

  2. Come on guys pick up on the flow here – it isn’t global warming which the weather fear murchants want us quivering in paranoid seizures over. There is far too much data available to pimp that notion any more.
    The new public paranoia push is over “climate change” – a far more nebulous construct that can have the fear mongers point fingers at everything from natural disasters to cooling trends to El Niño effects and blame western capitalism and the middle class.

  4. I wonder if the Mexicans will be as hospitable as the Americans were to them when half the population of North America is desperately crossing the Rio Grande to avoid the next glaciation that we obviously face in the not too distant (geological time) future? The last thirty-five hundred years of the upper chart clearly demonstrate a deteriorating inter-glacial period.

  5. John Chittick
    Actually that hypothesis was what drove the previous climate scare.
    The reality of the climate alarmers….The COLD WAR is over and their side lost…..

  6. Boris —
    // The snow on the flowerpot, since I have been staring, has got about an inch thicker. //
    // I wish I knew more about what is going on, and why. It is time to consult once again the learned astrophysicist, Piers Corbyn //
    Piers Corbin sells long-terms weather prediction — a sort of UK farmer’s almanac —
    // Corbyn’s predictions are based on what is called “The Solar Weather Technique […] He considers past weather patterns and solar observations and sun-earth magnetic connectivity. Conventional meteorology claims that such influences cause minimal impact on the Earth’s atmosphere. Corbyn has declined to publish the details of his method. //
    &
    // Corbyn asserts that earthquakes can be triggered by solar activity, and hence that he can to some extent be predict them. //
    I suppose it is a step up from his 70s activism, as a “squatters’ rights activist” & “the International Marxist Group candidate for Lambeth Central”.
    +
    As for Watts, has expressed his scepticism about the “accuracy of the content of the article” but has then included by way of illustration the two graphs which were not in the original.
    I don’t know if they are accurate, but that downward slope in the first refers to a lessening INCREASE in sea level, not a decrease.
    And the second ends in about 1900; if CO2 levels since were shown, that red line would shoot straight up through the top of the other graph.

  7. Please don’t do that again doowieb. I almost spit my mouthful of beer all over my laptop. That would be alcohol abuse.

  8. Go to
    http://www.climate4you.com/
    click on “The Big Picture”
    The climate reality denier leftards simply won’t be able to understand what’s presented. It’s science, and math is hard. They need their ‘climate news’ predigested so they can just parrot it to their friends.

  9. Who doesn’t agree that people living in the LIA drew the short stick for era to live in. Still, I have trouble believing 1 degree makes much difference. That cliff like structure at the beginning of the graph is what scares me. Life is not so good under 1 km of ice.

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