After the planet’s average surface temperature rose through the 1990s, the increase has almost leveled off at the level of 2000, while ocean water temperature has also stabilized, the Research Council of Norway said in a statement on its website. After applying data from the past decade, the results showed temperatures may rise 1.9 degrees Celsius if Co2 levels double by 2050, below the 3 degrees predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Elizabeth May could not be reached for comment.
Climate science became horribly politicized in the last two decades. Unfortunately for the grand priests of global warming, reality has little respect for politics.
Climate science is now in the painful process of backing down from some of its gross excesses to something resembling an actual science. The trick for these grand priests is to retain their credibility with their peers and general public. And, by the by, to retain their funding.
These are smart people. I have no doubt they’ll find some way.
Time to cut funding to the useless University departments and professors who got it so wrong, who pushed public policies that took so much money away from Public Health and Education and diverted it into useless greenie schemes and scams that enriched themselves and their friends at public expense.
On the positive side, it is good to see climate science reevaluate predictions and question their past assumptions. I can’t help but notice that each step back from C-AGW still includes some variation of “something must be done”, almost like a religious invocation to government. Even though the newer predictions of human CO2 caused warming are becoming indistinguishable from natural cyclical warming caused by ocean cycles and long term warming since the LIA.
Or, they could just cash-out like Al Gore.
I would only note that there’s nothing quite like a good civil war to effect a thorough house-cleaning. It will be interesting to see what happens next in New York State…
What does the Norwegian Research Council know? Barry says there is a climate crisis and he is going to deal with it. Science be damned.
Related: (and I’ll be in bed before tonights Readers’ Tips)
Ezra rips Suzuki…
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/2125192691001
‘Dr. Suzuki and his Ladies’
More bad news for the Warmist cult as they shiver this winter.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/28/un-climate-report-models-overestimated-global-warming/