18 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. The numbers haven’t been put through the climate adjustment system yet. This, too, can be a hockey stick.

  2. If you really wanted to scare us, your vertical scale would go 0, 10%, 20%, … 60%

  3. The thing is, the vast majority of people will not see this, but will rather hear and see the sensational lying headlines and TV news clips that the warmists arrange with their media sycophants.

  4. I’d like to volunteer some rain from Southern Ontario to any drought stricken places. Its so freakin’ wet here my lawn can’t be cut. The mower gets stuck in the puddles. Cut most of it on Tuesday, except for the parts actually under water. Needs cut again today. Argh.
    Oh, and thank you to the Ontario Liberals for making dandelion herbicide illegal. More yellow than green out there today. I can hardly wait for them to seed, that’s when all the fluffy bits go into the radiator and make things overheat.

  5. There is an undeniable Climate TREND that all Scientists MUST except. The earth is @ half Life and is in a long term cooling trend, in 4.5 Billion Years the Planet will be a ball of ICE.
    WHY:
    The continuing expansion of the Universe results in the Earth moving away from the SUN and it’s warming Solar rays.
    The thermal engine, in the center of Earth, is winding down
    AGW is a fraud, trivial nonsense by little minds endowed with the attention span of an adolescent Turkey

  6. I noticed how the graph is designed to look like fire and that scares me.

  7. All too true, Ken, even though the trend line is flat as a board.
    Phil, please don’t stretch beyond your pay grade.
    “The continuing expansion of the Universe results in the Earth moving away from the SUN and it’s warming Solar rays.”
    Uh, no. The expansion of the universe is irrelevant to the gravitational interaction of two bodies as close as the earth and the sun.
    “The thermal engine, in the center of Earth, is winding down”
    Uh, no. You understand the half life of uranium is measured in billions? The decline in thermal activity in the planet’s core occurs at far too slow a rate to be relevant over the next billion years, by which time none of this will be relevant when our sun leaves the main sequence and becomes a red giant.
    Fact is, our sun is slowly heating up over time to compensate for the slowly decreasing hydrogen concentration in its mass. The sun today is about 40 per cent hotter than it was during Jurassic times.

  8. Phillip, you might want to review your high school science. In 4.5 billion years, the Sun will be larger and brighter and the Earth will be far hotter than present. Our surface temperature will be hot enough to melt rocks!

  9. Actually, Ian, the sun falls off the main sequence in about 1 billion years, but what’s a few billion among friends? We will have disappeared long before that, of course. All of the worlds oceans will be gone about 200 million years from now.
    It comes as a bit sobering to realize that the Age of Life on our planet is about 90 per cent complete.

  10. Ian,
    Edgar Allan Poe was not a scientist. Dark matter & dark Energy
    make up ~96% of our known (unknown) theory of the Universe.
    Do you feel comfortable making wild predictions from a 4% database of knowledge?

  11. The warmists will claim there were twice as many droughts of half the area each so — more droughts! There, problem solved.

  12. Dark matter and energy are not relevant in this case to the observed life cycles of stars. It’s not mere prediction without strong evidence that our G type star will go the same way previous G stars have gone. And it’s not mere prediction without evidence that our planet will lose all its liquid water in about 200 million years or so.

  13. I’m with Halton Arp and Velikovsky – “convention” is in definite need of shattering when it comes to cosmology.

  14. Yeah well, in the overall scheme of things 200 million years in the future is in practice never.
    I will probably be long dead in 20 years or so. The prospect of 200 million years hence is a never-ya-mind for anyone here. It’s not something to get knots in yer toga about.
    Bear in mind, we probably are not much older than a million years as a species….so 200 million…a billion…..are abstracts….

  15. Source: Wikipedia Main Sequence
    Thus the star forms a self-regulating system in hydrostatic equilibrium that is stable over the course of its main sequence lifetime.[29]
    “The Sun has been a main-sequence star for about 4.5 billion years and it will become a red giant in 6.5 billion years”
    In consequence of this change, the outer envelope of the star expands and decreases in temperature, turning it into a red giant. At this point the star is evolving off the main sequence and entering the giant branch. The path which the star now follows across the HR diagram, to the upper right of the main sequence, is called an evolutionary track.
    Math is hard, but that is 6.5 billion MORE years of stable temperature and temperature decreases..and

  16. cgh,
    Where did you go! Your cheap shots have been debunked!
    BTW: The laws of Physics are generally considered to be universal, that means that expansion in the universe, will apply equally to our solar system. Unless the expansion observations are false or the result of a faulty methodology of measurement. IE using a yard stick to measure units of mm.. Like the AGW measurement of human contributions of a TRACE gas.

  17. Climate change means a warmer planet. Guess what heat causes? Evaporation! What is evaporation? It’s when water turns from liquid into vapour. This vapour becomes those fluffy things you see in the sky. (Those aren’t God’s rugs, btw).
    Then, after a bit, that water vapour condenses and it rains. Now if there is more evaporation, it stands to reason that there is more rain and therefore, less drought. UNLESS you live in an area with not much water, in which case, the reverse happens and it gets drier. Like in places like the SW USA, Australia, and Africa.
    https://www.ncas.ac.uk/index.php/en/climate-science-highlights/463-wet-regions-getting-wetter-dry-regions-drier-as-planet-warms
    CO2 doesn’t care what you think, it’s just going to go ahead and warm the planet up.

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