Saturday, February 21, 2009
Inflating climate change
The editors of The New York Times apparently had nothing of immediate moment to complain about this morning, so they wrote a data-free generic alarmist climate change editorial.
The 2007 assessment established a base line of expectation, but it is already looking outdated. From all over the globe, in bits and pieces, data are accumulating that suggest we may have already left behind the world of possibilities portrayed in the panel’s report. Sea ice has melted more quickly than expected. And, according to a recent report from the United States Geological Survey, sea levels in 2100 could increase by more than double the 1.5 feet rise projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (it chose not to add in water from eroding ice sheets because they remain poorly understood). Add to that the hard reality that carbon dioxide is a long-lived gas, and the picture of global warming is both volatile and forbidding.
Fortunately for the rest of us, the one thing that has not changed in quite some time now is the mean global temperature, a factoid that the editors saw fit to withhold. This is no doubt because the combination of rising CO2 levels and flat mean global temperature impeaches the predictive accuracy of the leading climate models, particularly regarding the sensitivity of the planet's climate to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
4 Comments:
By 
JPMcT, at
Sat Feb 21, 09:37:00 AM:
To the EDITOR of the NYT:
I'm waiting for the warming measurements to rise with CO2...please show me!
I'm waiting for the sea levels to rise...please indicate ANYWHERE in the world where it's happening!
I'm looking at the sea ice monitoring and all I see is either bad data or increasing ice...please indicate to me where I'm missing the point!
I'm looking for science advisors on Obama's panel that are NOT on George Soros'payroll..please tell me who they are!
What happens when the people who are in charge of Reality are INSANE!!
By 
, at
Sat Feb 21, 10:04:00 AM:
Tiresome idiots. The Times must be delighted, with Malthusian co-religionists governing "science" in the Obama administration.
By Roy Lofquist, at
Sun Feb 22, 12:01:00 AM:
Uh, about that sea ice:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Oh, never mind!
By JPMcT, at
Sun Feb 22, 12:38:00 PM:
The indicated website seems to be in a meltdown...
