Global Warming Alarmists Alarmed They May Be Full of Crap
By Duane Lester • May 6th, 2008The Telegraph has it right. Disciples of the Chuch of Global Warming™ are “so rattled by how the forecasts of their computer models are being contradicted by the data that some are rushing to modify the thesis.” They will fit reality into their belief system, one way or another.
If you want the truth about the Chuch of Global Warming™, you have to go to the Internet. Where else could you find out about this:
While global warming enthusiasts might take cheer from the NOAA’s claim that “average global land temperature” in March was “the warmest on record”, this was in striking contrast to a graph published last week on the Climate Audit website by Steve McIntyre.
Tracking satellite data for the tropical troposphere, it showed March temperatures plunging to one of their lowest points in 30 years.
Did you see any of that on CNN or CBS? I know I didn’t. You didn’t see this on the television news either:
On April 24 the World Wildife Fund (WWF), another body keen to keep the warmist flag flying, published a study warning that Arctic sea ice was melting so fast that it may soon reach a “tipping point” where “irreversible change” takes place. This was based on last September’s data, showing ice cover having shrunk over six months from 13 million square kilometres to just 3 million.
What the WWF omitted to mention was that by March the ice had recovered to 14 million sq km (see the website Cryosphere Today), and that ice-cover around the Bering Strait and Alaska that month was at its highest level ever recorded. (At the same time Antarctic sea ice-cover was also at its highest-ever level, 30 per cent above normal).
Finally, I don’t recall reading or hearing anything about this in the main stream media:
The most dramatic evidence, however, emerged last week with an announcement by Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that an immense slow-cycling movement of water in the Pacific, known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), had unexpectedly shifted into its cool phase, something which only happens every 30 years or so, ultimately affecting climate all over the globe.
Discussion of this on the invaluable Watts Up With That website, run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts, shows how the alternations of the PDO between warm and cool coincided with each of the major temperature shifts of the 20th century - warming after 1905, cooling after 1946, warming again after 1977 - and how the new shift to a cool phase could have repercussions for decades to come.
It’s a shame that most people are not getting this information. There is already doubt about the religion, and this type of information could help in countering the propaganda spit out by Al Gore and Co.
If you have yet to read our coverage of the CoGW, you have quite a bit of catching up to do. Start with “10 Reasons to Doubt Global Warming is Man-Made (Part 1).” It is by far our most popular article. Then click here and fire at will.
