Inconvenient Facts
January 29, 2012 10:55 pm Climate ScienceThe earth has not warmed in 15 years. The Daily Mail reports
“The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.“
I used to think that there was global warming – just a bit, but that we were not causing it. Now it seems that even that idea is false.
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Dalwhinnie
Falsum :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 8:51 AM
The Daily Mail? Seriously? That newspaper has slightly less credibility than the average 14 year-old youtube commenter. The scientific community is agreed that global warming is real, that we are causing it, and that it will be catastrophic if we do not do anything.
Hack journalism does nothing to change that. Try again when you find an article in a reputable peer-reviewed journal.
duggans dew :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 9:40 AM
Falsum, please. Wishing does not make it so. Being part of the international climate change elite makes it so – or did.
Quote of the Week:
“…we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore…” IPCC co-chair of Working Group 3, Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer, November 13, 2010 interview [H/t Dr. Charles Battig]
potato :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 12:10 PM
I like that quote. As if there is such a thing as “the world’s wealth”. The “wealth” belongs to the individuals who have earned it. The resources of any nation belong to its citizens. People like Falsum support global kleptocracy. People like Endenhofer are no better than racketeers.
Falsum :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 1:03 PM
Global kleptocracy? Are you serious? Where did you get that idea. I’m a capitalist, just like yourself. The only apparent difference is that I’m a capitalist who believes in science.
There is no simple quotation you can possibly bring up to question the scientific consensus on climate change, because science is bigger than any one scientist and it is not done by sound bytes. If you want to refute the theory of anthropogenic global warming, then you have to use science, not politics, to do it. Go collect some data, interpret it using sound scientific methodology, publish the results in a peer-reviewed journal, and respond to the criticisms of other scientists. Only then do you get a say on the physical reality of climate change.
climatecriminal :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 1:40 PM
really? one doesn’t need to know anything about science to know that AGW is a fraud. All you have to do is observe the behaviour of the socialist climate scientists, true beleivers and prophets to see that they don’t even act as if they beleive it. If these clowns actually believed the crap they are peddling would they still be flying, driving etc. Or is it that the sacrifices to “fix” the problem are to be borne by everyone but them. As for science, a AGW acolyte wouldn’t know real science if it kick them in the ass.
Blame Crash :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 4:46 PM
One has to be completely stuck in the muck of far-left crackpot ideology to buy into Global Warming and Climate Change racket. It’s not a coincidence that their solution to this make believe problem is the complete take over of everything by Big Government, including your personal life. If they have their way, you’ll have to ask “permission” by getting a permit to visit your Granny in the next town over.
And yes, they would love to have Check Point Charlie’s everywhere. But that’s only until these nut bars arrive at the same thing that their ideological forefathers in the Eugenic movement did, of course I’m referring to the Final Solution. At that point, the only trip you’ll be taking will be in a boxcar, going off to “you know where”!
The far-left political zombies have invaded the universities and then science and environmentalism and transformed them into instruments to enslave society to them.
If you can’t see that, you’re stuck on stupid and don’t even know it!
Falsum :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 5:51 PM
Godwin’s law. You lose.
Fred from BC :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 9:29 PM
Falsum :
Godwin’s law. You lose.
Actually it is you who have lost…you’re just not mature enough to admit it. You steadfastly refused to read the article, didn’t you? It is the University of East Anglia (remember them? “tricks” to “hide the decline”?) who has announced what most of us here knew years ago: it’s THE SUN, stupid! The temperature really hasn’t increased since 1997, CO2 increases come *after* temperature increases, not before, the ‘hockey stick’ and manipulations of tree ring data fooled no one, every dire prediction made by the IPCC has failed to come true despite them moving the goalposts in order to make that failure less apparent, etc, etc.
Give it up. It’s over.
Blame Crash :
Date: January 30, 2012 @ 9:53 PM
No Falsum, winning is not as simple as laying claim to Godwins law.
Believe it or not, those of us who aren’t going to allow ourselves to be rooked into the Big Lie also want fresh air, clean water and a bright future for the next generation. That bright future does not include being shackled to Big Government
And besides, I like nature, I like it a lot. If earth was truly under threat, I’d agree to do what would need to be done. But that isn’t the case. The Big Lie is all about politics.
It’s as simple as that.