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November 5, 2006
Global Warming Cultists Rewrite Climate History and the Laws of Physics
As Christopher Monckton observes, global warming hysteria "is less about saving the planet than, in Jacques Chirac's chilling phrase, 'creating world government.'" In part one of a thoroughly documented piece in the Sunday Telegraph, Monckton debunks the sloppy science and outright trickery used to generate the alleged "consensus" that the world is doomed if progressive bureaucrats don't cripple Western economies.
One of the Left's best tricks is abolishing the Medieval Warm Period. As the United Nations and Al Gore would prefer you didn't know, temperatures were as much as 3°C higher during the Middle Ages than they are today. "Greenland" got its name from being lush and green when the Vikings discovered it; today it's a frozen wasteland. In 1421, the Chinese sailed around the Arctic without encountering ice.
Monckton quotes David Deming, a geoscientist at the University of Oklahoma, who had published an article reconstructing 150 years of North American temperatures from borehole data:
With the publication of the article in Science, I gained significant credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them, someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. One of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."
They got rid of it by fudging data, allowing them to produce the infamous hockey stick graph that strikes fear into the hearts of the gullible.
Not content to rewrite natural history, the climate hysteria cult has gone after physics. A "forcing" is an influence on temperature, measured in watts. To get from the forcing to the temperature increase it would create, you have to use a constant called lambda. Its actual value is 0.22–0.3°C per watt, but global warming propagandist extraordinaire James Hansen has suggested making it 0.67, 0.75, or 1°C. Most UN computer models use 1°C. A scary new report by Nicholas Stern implies 1.9°C.
If that doesn't terrify people into submission, they'll have to raise lambda even higher. Soon we'll have to pay an extra tax on beans because their models will predict that breaking wind could cause the planet to burst into flames.
Let's hope the seas haven't boiled away before Monckton continues his exposé next Sunday.
On a tip from Bergbikr.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 5, 2006 7:48 PM
Comments
It's sound science.
But that won't convince Algore's "True Believers" of anything, escpaecially denouncing their religion. All you have to do is look at what his Moonbat Minions have to say about it.....
well, Junior?
Posted by: Doug at November 6, 2006 12:32 AM
www.junkscience.com is criticized by Global Warming hypersters mainly because if you look at the data provided that backs up their opinion that CO2 has little to do with climate change, it makes nuts like Al Gore look silly.
Temperatures for the month of October where I am were 6-10 degrees below normal. Friday morning the low hit 22, whereas normal is 42. Forecasters are predicting a cold snowy winter. Of course Al Gore will say Global Warming caused it.
Researchers have only begun to scratch the surface on the effects of the Sun and cosmic radiation on climate change. Its more logical to believe the Sun controls climate change than a trace gas like CO2. What if the Sun goes back into low gear like it did 300 years ago? We have cold summers, short growing seasons and ice choked rivers most of the year in North America and Europe - which is where most of the worlds food supply comes from. What then? Mass starvation in the 3rd world as we wont have any food to spare to send them. And fossil fuel use will soar as people struggle to keep warm. Maybe that will make Al Gore happy!
Climate change groups are infested with leftists whose ultimate goal is a social agrarian utopia - like North Korea or Cuba. That should scare anyone more than a tiny rise in temperatures.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at November 6, 2006 6:24 AM
Climate changes has been in evidence throughout the life of Planet Earth. Geologic and paleontological studies of sedimentary sections from boreholes and outcropps prove that these changes have been occurring since the earliest time in the life of our planet. The occurrence, for example, of hydrocarbon deposits in the Arctic regions, which could only have been generated in warming climates, establishes drastic changes in climate and in the whole environment in the Arctic area. Ignoring the warm period in the middle ages is only one of many deceptions that these alarmists have resorted to in an effort to exercise Big Government control over our economies and our lives. We need to respond aggressively to their assertions of impending climate disaster. Keep up the good fight.
David W. Keefe
dkpv@aol.com
Posted by: David W. Keefe at November 9, 2006 9:57 AM
Its quite surprising to see the vehemence with which the consensual opinion of the relevant experts in the scientific community is treated on this and other blogs. Is our personal experience of a few seasons really to be held up as a serious objection against the expert analysis of the scientific evidence by people who have dedicted their lives to it! Letting political views condition one's scientific conclusions is as wrong as creationism, tobaco-industry funded research, or the persection of Galileo. As a scientist I have some understanding of the methods used by the people working in the field but that does not mean I would have the temerity to air contradictory opinions simply on the basis of my own 'feeling'. And if I was to be given a public forum such as the front page of the Telegraph to air my views I would certainly make sure not to confuse my scientific units. Its very far from good science.
Posted by: Eamonn Devlin at November 13, 2006 8:13 AM
