A Cooling Consensus via Climate Depot.
… if the consensus climate models turn out to be falsified just a few years later, average temperature having remained at levels not even admitted to be have been physically possible, the authority of consensus will have been exposed as rather weak.
Related: Consensus tracks the temperature trend.
“Is this the same Bradley who was involved in an exchange of emails with the chief rogue scientist, Phil Jones, of the Climategate scandal? The topic pertained to “hiding the decline” in global temperatures. This Bradley was also associated with the infamous Michael Mann “hockey stick”, which was used by the UN’s IPCC to promote the anthropogenic, global-warming hoax.”
What is this ethical science you speak of?
Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring ’97-Percent Consensus’ Claims
Either through idiocy, ignorance, or both, global warming alarmists and the liberal media have been reporting that the Cook study shows a 97 percent consensus that humans are causing a global warming crisis. However, that was clearly not the question surveyed.
Investigative journalists at Popular Technology looked into precisely which papers were classified within Cook’s asserted 97 percent. The investigative journalists found Cook and his colleagues strikingly classified papers by such prominent, vigorous skeptics as Willie Soon, Craig Idso, Nicola Scafetta, Nir Shaviv, Nils-Axel Morner and Alan Carlin as supporting the 97-percent consensus.
Cook and his colleagues, for example, classified a peer-reviewed paper by scientist Craig Idso as explicitly supporting the ‘consensus’ position on global warming “without minimizing” the asserted severity of global warming. When Popular Technology asked Idso whether this was an accurate characterization of his paper, Idso responded, “That is not an accurate representation of my paper. The papers examined how the rise in atmospheric CO2 could be inducing a phase advance in the spring portion of the atmosphere’s seasonal CO2 cycle. Other literature had previously claimed a measured advance was due to rising temperatures, but we showed that it was quite likely the rise in atmospheric CO2 itself was responsible for the lion’s share of the change. It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.”
Arctic Sea Ice extent according to DMI is greater on this date since 2005. S hemisphere continues near record hi lvls twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi…
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) May 27, 2013
The greenhouse effect, as explained by Dr. Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council:
When you get in your car in summer, your car is hot because it has greenhouse gases in it. That’s why its hot.
This couldn’t possibly be correct… could it?
(London Free Press, May 1990)
When in doubt ask the experts, I say.
Via No Tricks Zone;
‘Unfortunately in climate science there is a tendency to proclaim absolute truths and to link these immediately to instructions on actions to take,’ [IPCC lead author Hans von Storch] said. ‘The climate pope tells us what has to be done, and for the people it’s: keep your mouths shut. Scientists have been taking over the roles of medicine men and priests. That’s not the job of scientists. Science is supposed to help understand problems, show the possibilities that exist in dealing with them. The best is to show many possibilities. Then the political process has to decide the path to take.’
But some of his colleagues in science like to use ‘stories that point to a catastrophe,’ said the professor of meteorology. One example was the assumption that our region would see ‘murderous violent storms’. But there was no data showing this. ‘It all has a cultural, anthropological background’ . ‘If you sin, then you will be punished. And the punishment always takes on an environmental dimension which also included storms in the past. In former times it was God’s punishment. Today it’s punishment by Nature. Nature is to keep man in check. And for this we see idiotic films like ‘The Day After Tomorrow.”
With ‘snappy’ and short statements like ‘snow will be a thing of the past’, the loud speakers among the scientists are putting the credibility of science at stake.'”
The BBC’s Roger Harrabin, via Junk Science;
“So it is possible that the climate would warm less than predicted, but the effects of the warming at a low level might be greater than predicted.”
Related: 12,793 Snow and Cold records broken in less than 2 months
…of ice.
The aftermath in Manitoba*. (the comments on this story are hilarious)
A ‘during’ from Mille Lacs Lake, MN.
*There were no polar bears listed as casualties.
“Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods — all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence,” President Obama said in his State of the Union address. “Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science — and act before it’s too late.”
Disturbing Normalcy Of Arctic Ice Continues Unabated
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
5,000 media scare stories later: Global Warming Not Significant in 2012 Drought
Is President Obama waging a war on coal? Republicans say yes. Democrats deny it. Here’s what Bill McKibben, self-styled leader of America’s “fossil-fuel resistance,” has to say: “Recently, I had a long talk with an administration insider who kept telling me that, for the next decade, we should focus all our energies on ‘killing coal.'” Sounds like a war to me.
That wasn’t good enough for McKibben, who insisted that the administration would have “to put the same sort of thought and creative energy into killing oil and natural gas, too.” Now that’s creativity. Energy independence? “Last century’s worry,” says McKibben.
… of “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge, of “The Dukes of Hazard” on TV, and of ” Kramer vs. Kramer” on the silver screen. It was the year the Shah was forced out of Iran. It was before the web, before the personal computer, before the cell phone, before voicemail and answering machines. But not before the global warming campaign.
Via Andrew Bolt;
No one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive…
Each year, an official estimate is made of the “excess winter mortality” – that is, the number of people dying of cold-related illnesses. Last winter was relatively mild, and still 24,000 perished. The indications are that this winter, which has dragged on so long and with such brutality, will claim 30,000 lives, making it one of the biggest killers in the country…
h/t PeterJ
Germany Pays Billions to Delay Global Warming for 37 Hours – John Stossel interviews Bjorn Lomberg.
(h/t annoyed)
