Global Warming Proponents Get Rattled

This is from "Watch the Web for Climate Change Truths", by Christopher Booker, The Telegraph, May 4, 2008, here.

The big story should have been the evidence pouring in against the idea that the world is heating up. Now some are ruching to modify the computer models that are being contradicted by the facts.

Two weeks ago, as North America emerged from its coldest and snowiest winter for decades, the US National Climate Data Center, run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a statement that snow cover in January on the Eurasian land mass had been the most extensive ever recorded, and that in the US March had been only the 63rd warmest since records began in 1895.

While NOAA claimed that 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.

Meanwhile, the infamous "hockey stick" graph has been exposed as the result of a faulty computer model that "would have conjured even random numbers from a phone book into the shape of a hockey stick."

On April 24 the World Wildife Fund (WWF) ... 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....

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). (Italics added.)

But the most dramatic anti-warming evidence came 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.

Meanwhile, last week Nature published data predicting a decade of cooling from deep ocean movements in the Atlantic. This may be reinforced by an even greater movement in the Pacific, where

...the West coast of the USA might already be experiencing these effects in the recent freezing temperatures that have devastated orchards and vineyards in California, prompting an appeal for disaster relief for growers who fear they may have lost this year's crops.

...this hugely important debate is almost entirely overlooked by the media, and is instead conducted largely on the internet, through expert websites such as those run by Mr McIntyre and Mr Watts.

So while our politicians are spending wildly on anti-warming schemes, they are...

...all based on blindly accepting the predictions of computer models that the planet is overheating due to our output of greenhouse gases.

The fact is that what has been happening to the world's climate in recent years, since global temperatures ceased to rise after 1998, was not predicted by any of those officially-sponsored models. The discrepancy between their predictions and observable data becomes more glaring with every month that passes.

Many cling to global warming because they think it is the same as global pollution. But polluting gasses cool the earth. Warming gases do not pollute! No pollution will result if we stop being concerned about warming gasses.

One way or the other, it is time to stop spending incredible amounts to stop global warming. The climate os growing colder, a trend that appears likely to last at least 10-20 years..


How long will we cling to an irrational, semi-religious global warming fixation?. And when will we stop huge spending programs designed to stop a problem that does not exist?