An Inconvenient Truth: Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
The Bear on Feb 28 2008 at 9:30 am | Filed under: Global Warming
“The Debate is Over”, so says the guru of Global Warming, Al Gore but is it? The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear out the idea that Global Warming may be in fact Global Cooling.
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Researcher Dr. Timothy Patterson, director of the Geoscience Center at Carleton University, is finding “excellent correlations” between solar fluctuations, a relationship that historically, he says doesn’t exist between CO2 and past climate changes. According to Patterson. we shouldn’t be surprised by a solar link. “The sun [is] the ultimate source of energy on this planet,” he says.
A one-year cold spell does not a trend make, but it certainly puts things into clearer perspective. Unlike localized climatological phenomena (storms, cold temperatures, more hurricanes, fewer hurricanes), the global cooling data cannot be explained in terms of Global Warming.
New data shows that the ice is back
Are the world’s ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory?
Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.
Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming. …
As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather. …
WARMED-OVER IPCC ERRORS
With much fanfare, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007. It predicted that global warming will lead to widespread catastrophe if it is left unmitigated. Yet, the report failed to provide the most basic requirement for effective climate policy: accurate temperature statistics, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).
The IPCC measures global temperature by averaging readings from thermometers at ground stations throughout the world. There are a number of potential errors in these readings, says Burnett:
Temperature-recording stations are absent from large areas of the Earth’s surface.
Weather stations that were once in undeveloped areas are now surrounded by buildings, parking lots and other heat-trapping structures — and due to the urban-heat-island effect, give high and inaccurate temperature data.
Temperature data has been further distorted as the locations and number of measuring stations have changed, contributing to inconsistent measurements over time.
Even using accurate, consistent temperature data, sound forecasting methods are required to predict climate change. Over time, forecasting researchers have compiled 140 principles that can be applied to a broad range of disciplines, including science, sociology, economics and politics. In a recent NCPA study, Kesten Green and J. Scott Armstrong used these principles to audit the climate forecasts in the Fourth Assessment Report:
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They found that 127 principles were relevant in assessing the process the IPCC used to project climate change.
The IPCC clearly violated 60 of the 127 principles.
Twelve additional principles appeared to be violated.
Another 38 could not be assessed because there was insufficient information.
The IPCC’s policy recommendations are based on flawed statistical analyses and unscientific expert opinions that violate general forecasting principles. Policymakers should take this into account before attempting to counter global warming by enacting laws that could have severe economic consequences, says Burnett.
Source: H. Sterling Burnett, “Climate Change Forecasters on the Hot Seat,” National Center for Policy Analysis, Brief Analysis No. 609, February 18, 2008.
Lies Mother Nature never told us
A recently “leaked” UN report charging that C02 emissions from the shipping industry is three times higher than previously thought, proves the inconvenient lies emanating from the world’s largest bureaucracy when it comes to global warming.
Last time the UN fingered the most significant greenhouse gas culprit it was the cows and sheep in the pasture.
Ludicrous lies on global warming (aka climate change) from the UN are reaching an all time high.
U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007
Senate Report Debunks “Consensus”
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Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average.”
China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.
There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.
In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.
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