Monday, November 03, 2008
Is global warming accelerating?
Perhaps drowned out in the blogosphere by the presidential campaign, there has nevertheless been a spate of news recently that global warming is "accelerating," in part because a recent press release from the World Wildlife Fund. This post would seem to be a rather direct refutation of that claim.
6 Comments:
By 
, at
Mon Nov 03, 02:59:00 PM:
"In fact, much of the rise in global averages is driven by the Arctic (and all of it is driven by the norther hemisphere above the tropics -- the rest of the world has no warming signal over the last 30 years)."
That's not true.
By , at
Mon Nov 03, 03:29:00 PM:
Not to mention science moving on and throwing a monkey wrench into the notions of the global warming advocates.
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Mon Nov 03, 04:02:00 PM:
Brian: Perhaps a link would be in order?
By , at
Mon Nov 03, 07:41:00 PM:
Dawnfire-
Good point - try the same one I pointed to a while back from a website TH had cited:
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/observation-system/satellite-data/sea-ice/images/gistemp.gif
By Dawnfire82, at
Tue Nov 04, 11:49:00 AM:
First observation: That graphic showed data from the 1880s from places like... Siberia. China. Sub-Saharan Africa. Paraguay. Et cetera. Let's just say that I don't believe that pre-industrial societies were in the business of monitoring their weather patterns for climate change data.
Second: The last few years, like 2000 to present, showed a drastic increase of temperature. Everything else was a touch and go, give and take of constant cycling change and at least seemed plausible.
I don't know about you, but I've been alive and paying attention to the last few years, and what I remember is 'global warming' becoming 'climate change' because the 'warming' part sort of... quit. Especially lately, what with solar activity dropping to virtually nil.
Without explanatory addendums for these two things, I'm off the opinion that that is just more environmentalist propaganda.
Fair fore-warning: When I was a kid, I was taught that the polar ice caps were going to melt, that the Amazon was going to be destroyed, that the hole in the O-zone would expand and incinerate Australia, and that acid rain (don't hear much about that anymore, do we?) was going to wipe out infrastructure all over the world, all by 2000. This crap was seriously drilled into my skull.
Well, 2000 has come and gone. We're almost to 2010. And none of that has even come close to happening. In fact, there has been recent talk about re-entering a new 'Little Ice Age.'
Which is good news for the Martians, who have been suffering a 'climate change crisis' pretty much exactly like ours. Guess they need to ban SUVs.
The environmentalist doomsayers have lost all credibility with me. They've been warning of dangers that never appear for too long, dangers that seem to change shape every ten years or so when the old ones get discredited. They scream about global warming causing terrible storms and we need to act now, but then don't recant when the storms fade. They scream about rising temperature and how we need to act now, but they don't recant when temperatures fall.
They are prophets of angry gods who demand sacrifice to stave off an apocalypse that never comes.
It's a scam.
By Brian, at
Tue Nov 04, 06:42:00 PM:
Dawnfire, if you want to bet over future temps, I'm happy to do it. I'll bet 10-year temps will rise twice the per-decade rate in the 20th Century.
By the way, there were plenty of instrumental records all over the world in the 1880s. If you don't trust native cultures, there were lots of Europeans running around.
