Piecing together the temperature puzzle

[Kurt]

Short hi-def video by NASA describing ongoing study and complexity of climate - some cool satellite images and other articles.

Climate Change: A Warming World

 

[Gidget]

Particularly interesting is the article:

Do local bouts of cold weather mean global warming is over? No. Read more to learn why cold snaps + global warming do add up.

I hear it all the time - "This cold winter proves there is no such thing as global warming."

Cold snaps and bouts of natural cooling that could last years are expected naturally even as the climate continues on a long-term warming trend, forced by man-made emissions.

Great read - thanks for posting, as usual. You come up w/the best stuff Kurt!!

G

 

[Miss Critter]

Thanks to our resident hippie scientist for keeping us both informed and appreciative of Mother Earth.

 

[futurebeachbum]

The really interesting thing that many overlook is that no model of the climate (including the AGW folks models) actually accurately models the real climate for the past few thousand years when run retrograde. It becomes much more convenient for them to simply deny that the Medieval Warming Period or the Maunder Minimum ever happened. (Nope, those Vikings never lived in Greenland....?)

Also until climatologists take fully into account things like solar activity and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation into account their models are woefully incomplete.

Interestingly enough, reason is now prevailing and many of the so-called "Climate Skeptics" are now called "Climate Auditors". From the post "On the Credibility of Climate Research"

So who are the climate auditors? They are technically educated people, mostly outside of academia. Several individuals have developed substantial expertise in aspects of climate science, although they mainly audit rather than produce original scientific research. They tend to be watchdogs rather than deniers; many of them classify themselves as ?lukewarmers?. They are independent of oil industry influence. They have found a collective voice in the blogosphere and their posts are often picked up by the mainstream media. They are demanding greater accountability and transparency of climate research and assessment reports.

If you can't build a model that corresponds to known and documented inputs and results, how accurate can your model be for the future?

There may be a problem...there may not be. Until "science" without an agenda is actually used, we'll never know.

The worst possible thing we can do is throw solutions that may or may not work at a problem that may, or may not exist.

 

[Daugette_Matt]

What difference does it make anyway. It's going to be all over December 21,2012 anyway.

 

[LuciferSam]

Any good global warming stock plays? A/C? Swimming pools?? Will there be a Popsicle bubble? What say you?

 

[poppy]

Any good global warming stock plays? A/C? Swimming pools?? Will there be a Popsicle bubble? What say you?

Ice, it's a solid investment that can be converted into a liquid asset.

 

[30ashopper]

Particularly interesting is the article:

Do local bouts of cold weather mean global warming is over? No. Read more to learn why cold snaps + global warming do add up.

I hear it all the time - "This cold winter proves there is no such thing as global warming."

Cold snaps and bouts of natural cooling that could last years are expected naturally even as the climate continues on a long-term warming trend, forced by man-made emissions.

Great read - thanks for posting, as usual. You come up w/the best stuff Kurt!!

G

I find it ironic that global warming promoters make the claim that major cold snaps and decade long halts in global tempurature rise are "ignorable anomolies", while major hurricanes and warm summers are proof man-made global warming is occuring. :roll:

 

[30ashopper]

The hitch is that the man-caused catastrophic global warming theory is dead, and it needs to be buried. Evidence had been mounting for years that there were problems with the global warming model; most telling was that the globe refused to warm up. Carbon emissions continued apace, but the world began cooling. This is why true believers abandoned the "global warming" brand name and tried to shift the debate to the more ambiguous label "climate change," which is something the rest of us like to refer to as "weather."

EDITORIAL: Osama and Obama on global warming - Washington Times

 

[backdoornews]

Short hi-def video by NASA describing ongoing study and complexity of climate - some cool satellite images and other articles.

Climate Change: A Warming World

SURFACE TEMPERATURE RECORDS:
POLICY DRIVEN DECEPTION?
by Joseph D?Aleo & Anthony Watts | January 29, 2010

1. Instrumental temperature data for the pre-satellite era (1850-1980) have been so widely, systematically, and unidirectionally tampered with that it cannot be credibly asserted there has been any significant ?global warming? in the 20th century.
2. All terrestrial surface-temperature databases exhibit very serious problems that render them useless for determining accurate long-term temperature trends.
3. All of the problems have skewed the data so as greatly to overstate observed warming both regionally and globally.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/surface_temp.pdf