The Great Pause has now persisted for 17 years 11 months. Indeed, to three decimal places on a per-decade basis, there has been no global warming for 18 full years. Professor Ross McKitrick, however, has upped the ante with a new statistical paper to say there has been no global warming for 19 years.
Whichever value one adopts, it is becoming harder and harder to maintain that we face a “climate crisis” caused by our past and present sins of emission...
...This is the longest continuous period without any warming in the global instrumental temperature record since the satellites first watched in 1979. It has endured for half the satellite temperature record. Yet the Great Pause coincides with a continuing, rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration.
The RSS satellite records shows no global warming at all for the 215 months from October 1996 to August 2014. That is more than half the entire 428-month satellite record.
* The term "crazed sex poodle" was first used to describe Al Gore by a Denver masseuse who alleged the infamous climate grifter had "fondled and groped her".
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If the facts are on your side, than you talk about the facts. If science is on your side than you talk about the scientific method. If the facts are inconvenient and the scientific method is inconvenient, talk about how 'science is settled' and how anyone who disagrees is a stupid poopy head. Believers in AGW have quit both of the first two and have failed to show up for debates as well. Media consistently disparages 'deniers' but will not talk about anything that undercuts 'global warming'. Since 'deniers' keep bringing up specific data points they are ignorant fools who should be hung.
ReplyDeleteIf the only problem for the Global Warming believers was that it quit getting hotter a while back , then hand-waving for ten years would work to keep the Climate Change, “CO2 is killing us” meme alive. But there are a lot more problems than that. All the predictions of past IPCCs and AL Gore, James Hansen, and everyone else, are on the record in the public domain. Anyone who desires to see for themselves can search the record for free on the Internet. All it takes is a curious mind and a little of your time. Besides being able to see their predictions one can see their actions. Mr Gore bought oceanfront property despite his official predictions. Made a few hundred millions with his claims.
Some of the past claims that haunt the Church of AGW besides the last eighteen years: The Arctic sea ice recovery record, Antarctic sea ice records, diminishing numbers and strengths of tropical cyclones and storms, better historical reconstructions of past climate change (LIA, MWP, HTM, etc) without manmade CO2 forcings. Coral reefs in recovery from El Nino induced bleaching, and steadily increasing food crop yields are also inconvenient truths.
A major peer-reviewed paper by four senior researchers exposed grave errors in an earlier paper in a new and unknown journal that had claimed a 97.1% scientific consensus that Man had caused at least half the 0.7 Cº global warming since 1950. Only 41 out of the 11,944 published climate papers Cook examined explicitly stated that Man caused most of the warming since 1950. Cook himself had flagged just 64 papers as explicitly supporting that consensus, but 23 of the 64 had not in fact supported it. How to prove AGW, ignore the evidence that does not agree, and falsify part of the rest.
41 of 11944 published climate papers unconditionally agreed that man was responsible for most of the warming since 1950. Is that 97 % ?
ReplyDeleteAre we talking about the same global warming that stopped 17 years ago ?
Some years ago, my memory is unsure so this comment is unscientific, I read of a warmist climatologist suggesting that we would be facing a mini ice age were it not for warble gloaming. He was quickly informed of the errors of his ways.
ReplyDeleteHow Big Oil is using front groups to attack global warming regulations
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/09/04/how-big-oil-using-front-groups-attack-global-warming-regulations