No!
Tuesday 17 September 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized
The past couple of years have seen warmists, though still insisting that the world is doomed (DOOOOOOOOOMED!!!) because of the greenhouse effect global warming climate change, start to walk back their dire predictions as each and every one of them have come NOT to pass. They’ve tried to insist that the warming that hasn’t happened for over a decade, and that wasn’t a part of any of their fortune telling models, is “completely consistent” with their predictions, or tried to claim that the heat is being trapped by the Pacific Ocean while it awaits its inevitable release, bringing the downfall of humanity and the destruction of the earth for our evil human ways. But even the strongest proponents are starting to realize that maybe they’ve gone too far. CBS News:
Due to a complex system of measuring, a new study finds that global warming has been overestimated over the past 20 years.
According to the study from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, simulated climate models have combined a series of errors in external forcing and internal climate variability to show that global warming has progressed much faster than in reality.
I’m pretty sure that we didn’t need a study to show that each and every one of their predictions for global apocalypse was overreach. All we had to do was look. We still have ice in the Arctic (about 1,000,000 square miles more than last year), despite predictions, assumed from the results of various climate models that were said to have been conservative, claiming that by this year we wouldn’t have any ice at all. Temperatures have not been anywhere close to what any of the 44 models used by climatologists have predicted. In fact, for the majority of the period that global surface temperatures have been taken, they have been below the most conservative prediction, and significantly below the average temperature spat out by the various models (which is roughly what the IPCC uses when predicting warming patterns). Dr. Roy Spencer, former NASA climatologist notes “Obviously, there is a substantial disconnect between the models and observations for this statistic.” Obvious to those only who aren’t true believers in warming catastrophe. But there is good news for warmists: it seems that they have finally come to a conclusion that so-called “deniers” have been making for the last decade or so.1 The conclusion of the study?
The study finds that, as a whole, the climate system is so complex that “there will always be uncertainties in assesments and projections of climate change.”
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1. One needs to realize that there are various forms of global warming skeptics, and the vast majority of them aren’t anything at all like the “deniers” that warmists are fond of making their straw men with.
2013-09-17 » madlibertarianguy