Reading headlines about the UN climate change report issued yesterday, I was really surprised as well as confused when I saw that the “experts” dismissed a slowdown in global warming.
The expert’s conclusion was: "Our assessment of the science finds that the atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amount of snow and ice has diminished, the global mean sea level has risen and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased," according to Qin Dahe, co-chair of the working group that wrote the report.
But, then I read on to find that, “Global surface temperatures rose rapidly during the 70s, but have been relatively flat over the past decade and a half, rising only 0.05 degrees Celsius (0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade according to data from the U.K.’s weather-watching Met Office, a trend current models of the world’s climate have been unable to predict.”
Beyond that, “[R]ecent reports have stressed that climate models have failed to accurately predict global temperatures. A study in the journal Nature Climate Change compared 117 climate predictions made in the 1990's to the actual amount of warming. Out of 117 predictions, the study’s author told FoxNews.com, 3 were roughly accurate and 114 overestimated the amount of warming.”
What’s more, “On average, the predictions forecasted two times more global warming than actually occurred.”
In that regard, climate scientist John Christy, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, told FoxNews.com at the time, "It's a real problem ... it shows that there really is something that needs to be fixed in the climate models."
Another scientist Judith Curry, professor and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, "was even blunter, saying, IPCC has thrown down the gauntlet – if the pause continues beyond 15 years (well it already has), they are toast.”
Additionally, “Many governments had objections over how the issue was treated in earlier drafts and some had called for it to be deleted altogether.” In reply, Thomas Stocker, co-chair of the group that wrote the report said “An old rule says that climate-relevant trends should not be calculated for periods less than around 30 years."
So, it seems the farce continues, which isn’t surprising considering the money involved. AlGore alone has made many millions on the scam, while the administration has made this fiction a cornerstone issue of the incumbent's platform.
But, the worst part for me, and the only reason I have a whit of interest in the subject at all, is that I’m paying three or four times more for a gallon of gas than I should all because of the administration's erroneous beliefs and promotion of very questionable data, based far more on political persuasion than actual fact.
However, since the guy at the top has no problem in turning the nation’s foreign policy control over to the Russians, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that he permits bogus climatologists to kill our economy as well.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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