I missed this story the other day from Rich Lowry
(NY Post) There are few things sadder than the “climate denier.†He ignores the data and neglects the latest science. His rhetoric and policy proposals are dangerously disconnected from reality. He can’t recalibrate to take account of the latest evidence because, well, he’s a denier.
The new climate deniers are the liberals who, despite their obsession with climate change, have managed to miss the biggest story in climate science, which is that there hasn’t been any global warming for about a decade and a half.
“Over the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar,†The Economist magazine writes. “The world added roughly 100 billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO2 put there by humanity since 1750.†Yet, no more warming.
The Economist hasn’t exactly been Climate Realists over the years. In fact, their coverage tended to take a rather Alarmist viewpoint. And Lowry points out that the New Climate Deniers are finding all sorts of interesting ways to continue to Believe by blaming all sorts of things for “masking” the warming. Even though these same things, such as aerosols from coal fired plants as James Hansen (not a climate scientist) posits, have been around for a long time and were much worse in the past.
Warmists will not admit that their pet hypothesis is faulty, as are their computer models. Consider this graphic from Real Clear Science
Not particularly scary eh? Warmists tend to use a severely zoomed in chart to attempt to make tenths of a degree of temperature uptick look world ending. A temperature increase of .08C over 15 years is not scary. A temperature increase of .28F since 1990 is likewise not scary. An increase of 1.3F over the last 100+ years is again, not scary. And what you would expect during a mild warming period which came after a cool period.
What Rich misses is that “climate change” caused by Mankind has been a scary talking point since the beginning of the 20th Century, with newspapers getting hysterical time and time again, whether their concern be a planet on fire or a new ice age. They’re like teenage girls having hysterics and turning tiny issues into doooooooom. The modern Warmist isn’t interested in the climate: they’re interested in pushing their far left fascistic policies, so, they will do everything possible to prop up their cult. This is why every weather event, even massive snow, is blamed on “climate change”. Why earthquakes and volcanoes are likewise. Yet, they rarely do more than implement token changes in their own lives, and even come up with intricate reasons why they shouldn’t make changes in their own lives. Your life, yeah, you are supposed to be forced by Government to change that. But not themselves.
More at The Minority Report.
Teach last week you said that you agreed that it was getting hotter. 2010 was tied with 2005 as the hottest years on record.
Now of course it could be all part of a giant conspiracy, one that has convinced 98% of scientists and 80% of all Americans. A conspiracy so vast and sinister that only an “elite” group can see as the hoax that it is.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110112_globalstats.html
A hoax so well planned that even the US Navy and the US Marines have been bamboozled by it.
How non scary is that tiny temp change ? Well we are going to lose the ice cap probably around 2020. Fox News reports that glaciers are now shrinking 300% faster than they did in the 1970s
Remember that even though we can’t see much of a difference between the 14.37 C and 14.45 (these are of course NOT the NOAA records but UK MET) we have seen BIG changes like the loss of teh ice cap with just these teeny little differences.
See? John is part of the new climate denial machine. Nothing persuades them from believing in man induced hotcoldwetdry (though they won’t change their own lives to match their rhetoric.)
John’s behavior is typical of that of a cult member.
Every time you address issue “A,” cult members will bring up issues “B,” “C,” “D,” “E,” etc., and once you address those issues the cult member will say “well, what about issue ‘A’?” It is a never ending loop.
We’ve addressed john’s false premise in what the Navy believes, and yet after a few posts, he brings it up again. Teach has addressed the issue of climate change vs. AGW, and yet john still believes all climate change is caused by man.
In essence, cult members (no matter the cause) are intellectually dishonest.
I find it funny, actually, that the biggest denier of AGW happens to be…the earth itself.
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that’s hilarious Nate.
If you don’t believe that drought causes earthquakes and volcanos, then you must be a climate denier!!