The great global warming myth

some inconvieniant facts

Yes, there has been some warming in the past century or so, about 1 degree Fahrenheit. Before that, from about 1250 to 1850, we were in a cool period known as the Little Ice Age. Much of the recent warming actually occurred from about 1895 to 1940, with the biggest warming trend from about 1910 to 1935, well before the significant increase in fossil fuel use.
The year 1934 was actually the warmest year, with 1998 coming in second, and temperatures have declined slightly since then. Greenland reached its highest temperature in 1941 and has been cooling ever since. Temperatures have actually cooled slightly since 1998, very likely signaling another ice age similar to the Little Ice Age.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

The Great global warming update:

Chicken Little was right, the sky is falling.

There is a tremendous uproar in certain circles because of an open letter/op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, signed by 16 prominent scientists with credentials and expertise you can't ignore. The article is a concise statement of mutterings of discontent that have been gathering for a while now.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html

What they're saying herein is, global warming is hype. Current data show the average temperature of the earth hasn't been rising for at least 10 years. Effects of increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere appear to have far smaller effects than computer models predicted.

Worse, the whole argument for global warming has been marred by sloppy data collecting, flawed computer modeling, outright fraud, and the shameful intimidation of dissenting scientists. This, to say the least, is not how science is supposed to be done.

Furthermore, if there is any climate change going on that will have long-term problems for us, it's more likely to be global cooling and a new Ice Age.

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After the ice age scare of the late 1800s, the press has hawked four major trends in global climate change: cooling, then warming, then cooling again, and, now, warming again. During that period, the temperature increased an unspectacular 1 degree Fahrenheit. Yet we continuously are bombarded with claims of an impending global roasting, such as in Al Gore's frightening movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," and in the much-ballyhooed U.N. report released Feb. 1. Anyone daring to oppose this fashionable dogma masquerading as settled science is labeled a Luddite.

But columnist Debra J. Saunders reminds us the verdict is far from unanimous. "Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology Richard S. Lindzen complained to the Boston Globe about the 'shrill alarmism' of Gore's flick," Ms. Saunders writes. "Neil Frank, who was considered authoritative when he was the director of the National Hurricane Center, told the Washington Post that global warming is 'a hoax.' Hurricane expert William Gray of Colorado State University believes the Earth will start to cool within 10 years. University of Virginia professor emeritus Fred Singer ... argues that global warming is not human-induced but based on a solar cycle." Sixty Canadian scientists publicly announced last year that there is no consensus among climate scientists. Don't bet on global warming.

The great global warming myth

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

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