2008: The Year AGW Went Poof!
Posted on December 28, 2008
Climahysterics will get hysterical and will call Christopher Booker at The Telegraph all sorts of bad names. He goes back through his columns and comes to the conclusion that 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
The first, on May 21, headed “Climate change threat to Alpine ski resorts” , reported that the entire Alpine “winter sports industry” could soon “grind to a halt for lack of snow”. The second, on December 19, headed “The Alps have best snow conditions in a generation” , reported that this winter’s Alpine snowfalls “look set to beat all records by New Year’s Day”.
Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.
First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.
Read the rest of the column for the other two. Outraged calls from Goracle disciples in 3…2…1….
In related news, Powerline has an interesting letter written by Professor Frank Tippler to William Katz
It is obvious that anthropogenic global warming is not science at all, because a scientific theory makes non-obvious predictions which are then compared with observations that the average person can check for himself. As we both know from our own observations, AGW theory has spectacularly failed to do this. The theory has predicted steadily increasing global temperatures, and this has been refuted by experience. NOW the global warmers claim that the Earth will enter a cooling period. In other words, whether the ice caps melt, or expand — whatever happens — the AGW theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.
In contrast, the alternative theory, that the increase and decrease of the Earth’s average temperature in the near term follows the sunspot number, agrees (roughly) with observation. And the observations were predicted before they occurred. This is good science.
Denier! Heretic! Burn him! Oh, wait, as another part of the Powerline post shows, that is what Obama’s chief science advisor, John Holdren, wants to do.
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If there were any justice at all the global warming idiots would be tarred, feathered and rode out of town on a fence rail. Except Al Gore, he’d have to ride on a full grown Giant Sequoya.
Al Gore truly needs a shoe-leather enima.
And Fred Jones needs to learn how to spell.
“Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand”
The above quote is from the UK Met Office (UK Hadley Center for climate research)
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/news/warming_goes_on.pdf
The Met Office article continues with:
“The evidence is clear – the long-term trend is that global temperatures are rising, and humans are largely responsible for this rise.”
If you run a Google search using the title of Martin Durkin’s movie “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, my webpage ““The Great Global Warming Swindle” is itself a Fraud and a Swindle” (http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html ) usually comes up on the first page of the results. Note that the page is recommended by MIT professor Carl Wunsch. It also had over 10,000 hits from the reference/link on Dilbert Blog. (Documentation for both is on the page.)
If “The Deniers” can’t learn via understanding the evidence, then they will learn the hard way that man-made “global warming” / “climate change” is real.