Led off with stirring speeches from the Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the acting head of the European Union, and Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, perhaps the most distinguished climatologist in the world, the message of this gathering was that the scare over global warming has been deliberately stoked up for political reasons and has long since parted company with proper scientific evidence.
Nothing has more acutely demonstrated this than the reliance of the IPCC on computer models to predict what is going to happen to global temperatures over the next 100 years. On these predictions, that temperatures are likely to rise by up to 5.3C, all their other predictions and recommendations depend, yet nearly 10 years into the 21st century it is already painfully clear that the computer forecasts are going hopelessly astray. Far from rising with CO2, as the models are programmed to predict they should, the satellite-measured temperature curve has flattened out and then dropped. If the present trend were to continue, the world in 2100 would not in fact be hotter but 1.1C cooler than the 1979-1998 average.
Yet it is on this fundamental inability of the computer models to predict what has already happened that all else hangs. For two days in New York we heard distinguished experts, such as Professor Syun-Ichi Akasofu, former director of the International Arctic Research Center, Dr Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Professor Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute, authoritatively (and often wittily) tear apart one piece of the scare orthodoxy after another.
Sea levels are not shooting up but only continuing their modest 3mm a year rise over the past 200 years. The vast Antarctic ice-sheet is not melting, except in one tiny corner, the Antarctic Peninsula. Tropical hurricane activity, far from increasing, is at its lowest level for 30 years. The best correlation for temperature fluctuations is not CO2 but the magnetic activity of the sun. (For an admirable summary of proceedings by the Australian paleoclimatologist Professor Bob Carter, Google "Heartland" and "Quadrant").
Plus UW-Milwaukee Study Could Realign Climate Change Theory
Scientists said that the air and ocean systems of the earth are now showing signs of synchronizing with each other.
Eventually, the systems begin to couple and the synchronous state is destroyed, leading to a climate shift."
In climate, when this happens, the climate state changes. You go from a cooling regime to a warming regime or a warming regime to a cooling regime. This way we were able to explain all the fluctuations in the global temperature trend in the past century," Tsonis said. "The research team has found the warming trend of the past 30 years has stopped and in fact global temperatures have leveled off since 2001."
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"But if we don't understand what is natural, I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing. So our interest is to understand -- first the natural variability of climate -- and then take it from there. So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural," Tsonis said.
And Al Gore claims that the "science is settled" and that there's a "consensus" that he's right when he tries to scare the living daylights out of us with his outlandish predictions about the future? Have his predictions come true, as opposed to the opposite happening?
Now for an inconvenient YouTube... ht: "MeMyself" via the comments
That was Part 1. Part 2 below. Also via "MeMyself" in the comments.
Also inconvenient to Al Gore's attempts to scare the hell out of us:
Lefty, Prius-driving professor says Gore wrong Click and read it! The more folks who read stuff inconvenient to Gore's B.S. agenda, the more he'll wonder if someone's messing around with a voodoo doll of him... imagine him going, "Ow! Ow! Not again! I feel like my ass is being used as a pincushion!"
Name's Richard A. Muller. So Al Gore got a Nobel Prize? Big whoop. Well, Professor Muller has officially been named a "genius" by another awarding body. I think being named a "genius" trumps getting an award that even Yasser Arafat got (for "peace", fofecksake!)...
Oh, and those polar bears vainly searching for ice that Gore depicted in his documentary film �An Inconvenient Truth�? There's no record of that, Muller told Forbes magazine�s Terry Dolan.
Muller added that solar panels on residential rooftops make no economic sense and that Gore and Friedman are nothing more than "environmental preachers."
Among his other targets is the U.N.�s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), composed of scientists, diplomats and politicians. "No one actually pays attention to the IPCC," he says dismissively.
And the professor's Prius hybrid funnycar? Well, he drives it 'cause he likes the fancy technology, not because he thinks it'll make any difference in the weather or climate. Actually, I, too, like the technology as well and hope it becomes commonplace, as it makes sense in a whole lot of ways. Hell, bring on, say, a turbodiesel, direct-injected, plug-in hybrid! Especially for the likes of taxis, police cruisers, big pickups, SUVs etc., where it'll save a fortune on the cost of fueling up... it's really about money, folks, not the weather...
