LA Times: We Don’t Publish Letters to Editor Claiming Man Isn’t Causing Global Warming
LA Times: We Don’t Publish Letters to Editor Claiming Man Isn’t Causing Climate Change | NewsBusters
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Regular readers of The Times’ Opinion pages will know that, among the few letters published over the last week that have blamed the Democrats for the government shutdown (a preponderance faulted House Republicans), none made the argument about Congress exempting itself from Obamacare.
Why? Simply put, this objection to the president’s healthcare law is based on a falsehood, and letters that have an untrue basis (for example, ones that say there’s no sign humans have caused climate change) do not get printed.
So letters to the editor “that say there’s no sign humans have caused climate change…do not get printed.”
That’s quite a statement coming from an editorial writer not named Al Gore.
Of course, readers are likely just as concerned that the Times is also not publishing letters claiming Congress is exempt from ObamaCare.
After reviewing fact checks on this issue published by CNN, the Washington Post, and Yahoo, it appears the Times has a point here.
(HT Marc Morano)…
0.00 Warming With A Signal To Noise Ratio of 0.00 Increases Scientists’ Confidence In Warming
0.00 Warming With A Signal To Noise Ratio of 0.00 Increases Scientists’ Confidence In Warming
There has been no warming for 17 years. The world’s top scientists have used this data with a S/N ratio of 0.00 and a high standard deviation, to gain increasing confidence that their catstrophic warming models are correct. Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs In the private sector, they would be laughed out of the […]
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Nicola Scafetta: Climate Models Used By IPCC Fail To Reproduce Decadal & Multidecadal Patterns Since 1850
Nicola Scafetta: Climate Models Used By IPCC Fail To Reproduce Decadal & Multidecadal Patterns Since 1850
Nicola Scafetta (2013) Discussion on climate oscillations: CMIP5 general circulation models versus a semi-empirical harmonic model based on astronomical cycles, Earth-Science Reviews 126 (2013) 321–357
Abstract: Power spectra of global surface temperature (GST) records (available since 1850) reveal major periodicities at about 9.1, 10–11, 19–22 and 59–62 years. Equivalent oscillations are found in numerous multisecular paleoclimatic records. The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) general circulation models (GCMs), to be used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5, 2013), are analyzed and found not able to reconstruct this variability. In particular, from 2000 to 2013.5 a GST plateau is observed while the GCMs predicted a warming rate of about 2 °C/century. In contrast, the hypothesis that the climate is regulated by specific natural oscillations more accurately fits the GST records atmultiple time scales. For example, a quasi 60-year natural oscillation simultaneously explains the 1850–1880, 1910–1940 and 1970–2000 warming periods, the 1880–1910 and 1940–1970 cooling periods and the post 2000 GST plateau.
This hypothesis implies that about 50% of the ~0.5 °C global surface warming observed from 1970 to 2000 was due to natural oscillations of the climate system, not to anthropogenic forcing as modeled by the CMIP3 and CMIP5 GCMs. Consequently, the climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling should be reduced by half, for example from the 2.0–4.5 °C range (as claimed by the IPCC, 2007) to 1.0–2.3°C with a likely median of ~1.5 °C instead of ~3.0 °C. Also modern paleoclimatic temperature reconstructions showing a larger preindustrial variability than the hockey-stick shaped temperature reconstructions developed in early 2000 imply aweaker anthropogenic effect and a stronger solar contribution to climatic changes. The observed natural oscillations could be driven by astronomical forcings. The ~9.1 year oscillation appears to be a combination of long soli–lunar tidal oscillations, while quasi 10–11, 20 and 60 year oscillations are typically found among major solar and heliospheric oscillations driven mostly by Jupiter and Saturn movements.
Solar models based on heliospheric oscillations also predict quasi secular (e.g. ~115 years) and millennial (e.g. ~983 years) solar oscillations, which hindcast observed climatic oscillations during the Holocene. Herein I propose a semi-empirical climate model made of six specific astronomical oscillations as constructors of the natural climate variability spanning from the decadal to the millennial scales plus a 50% attenuated radiative warming component deduced from …
Brian Gunter: ‘Antarctic Continent Has Not Warmed In The Last 50 Years’ — ‘Zero temperature trend for the main regions of the Antarctic continent’
Brian Gunter: ‘Antarctic Continent Has Not Warmed In The Last 50 Years’
http://www.thegwpf.org/antarctic-continent-warmed-50-years/
Zero temperature trend for the main regions of the Antarctic continent are interesting and possibly significant.
* Has the Antarctic continent become significantly warmer in recent years?
* Are there any reliable, long-term temperature records available for this region?
* Do historical temperature records give us any indication of probable future temperature trends?
* Are the snow and ice deposits in Antarctica likely to melt and result in significant worldwide rises in sea level?
Some of these questions are answered below. Please send me your comments.
Long-term air temperature records at 13 stations in Antarctica have been extracted from the website of KNMI (Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute). This is all raw data (GHCN), without any adjustments ever having been made (as far as I am aware). Only stations with records over a period of at least 50 years, with largely complete and post-2005 records were selected. Eleven of the stations are located in coastal areas of the continent and of these three are located on the more northerly Antarctic Peninsula (south of South America). Two stations are located at higher, inland locations including one station at the South Pole.
The latest data that I could locate from the KNMI database were for July 2011. For the three Australian operated stations later data were obtained from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website.
I have not been able to make any quality checks on the data. It is possible that there have been some changes in station locations and instrumentation over the periods of record, but comparisons with other adjoining stations would be expected to identify any inconsistencies.
Graphical plots are presented below of annual mean temperatures at each of the 13 stations.
[Annual mean temperatures are the average of the mean daily temperatures over each year (the mean daily temperatures are the average of the observed daily maximum and minimum temperatures).]
In addition, the mean monthly temperatures for the warmest and coldest months (based on long-term averages) at each station are plotted. The coldest months (on average) are always July or August while the warmest month (on average) is January (except for the two inland stations that are slightly warmer in December).
A trend line was fitted through each of the sets of data.
MY CONCLUSIONS:
1. Apart from at the three stations located on the Antarctic Peninsula, …
Christopher Booker: Climate Scientists Are Just Another Pressure Group
Christopher Booker: Climate Scientists Are Just Another Pressure Group
http://www.thegwpf.org/christopher-booker-climate-scientists-pressure-group/
The IPCC and its reports have been shaped by a close-knit group of scientists, all dedicated to the cause
Last weekend, something very odd happened. On Friday we were told that in Stockholm the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) had published a report saying that it was now “extremely likely” that the world faces disastrous man-made climate change. But this was merely a “summary” for politicians and the media of a scientific report that was not published until three days later.
We then learnt that this “Summary for Policymakers” had been argued over for days and sleepless nights by hundreds of politicians, officials and scientists, but, weirdly, that the scientific report it supposedly summarised had subsequently been amended to bring it into line with the summary. One obvious change from previous drafts was the marked downplaying of any reference to how, in recent years, global temperatures have so notably failed to rise as the IPCC’s computer models predicted.
This was an uncanny replay of the first scandal to hit the IPCC back in 1996, when again the “summary” thrashed over by politicians and a few key scientists was made more alarming than the report proper by inserting a claim that there was now “a discernible human influence” on the world’s climate.
Scientists who had approved the report protested that there was nothing in their text to justify this. But, to their amazement, they discovered that their agreed version had been amended to include this very phrase, citing as its authority two papers not yet published by Ben Santer, an American scientist who had also played a key part in drafting the summary.
All this, and the revelation that Santer had deleted 15 passages casting doubt on man-made warming from the agreed text, famously prompted Prof Frederick Seitz, a revered former president of the US National Academy of Sciences, to protest that never in 60 years as a scientist had he “witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process”. Last weekend Dr Santer was again playing a part in the events that led to a virtual repeat of what happened in 1995.
Some years back, when I was researching a detailed history of the alarm over global warming, few things surprised me more than to discover just how wildly misleading was the picture given to the world …
Suicide Warmism: Greenpeace chief declares ‘world needs people to put their LIVES ON THE LINE for climate justice’
Suicide Warmism: Greenpeace chief declares ‘world needs people to put their LIVES ON THE LINE for climate justice’
The Independent reports: {Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo] admits that the organisation was “taken by surprise” by the charges, which he thinks are “completely disproportionate”. He said that freeing his colleagues was a “top priority” but added that, as in other movements, the world needs people who are “prepared to go to prison, put their […]…
Swiss Journalist Predicts: ‘Climate Catastrophe Will Soon Be Forgotten’ Like All Other Environmental Scare Stories
Swiss Journalist Predicts: “Climate Catastrophe Will Soon Be Forgotten” Like All Other Environmental Scare Stories
It’s good to see that there are a few journalists who actually take journalism seriously and question what they are being told. One publication that has been doing a good job on this is Switzerland-based Weltwoche, which has written two pieces about the latest IPCC report. See here and here.
Photo: Alex Reichmuth, Weltwoche.
Hat tip: Reader Kurt Arner
Now Weltwoche follows up with a commentary by veteran journalist Alex Reichmuth, titled: “The Perspiration of Fear” and Climate appearing in the print edition. In it he writes that the alarmist warnings of the IPCC have become a worn-out ritual, having little more than a bounce of a dead cat. Moreover, like all other environmental predictions of doom and gloom made in the past, man-made climate change will also be relegated to the dustbin of history.
IPCC has confused the public
Reichmuth writes that if anything, the climate scientists and the IPCC, in their desperate scramble to explain the unexpected changes in climate science, have been only successful in confusing the public. Last winter renowned climate institutes admitted the “climate pause” and the IPCC came under pressure to come up with an explanation for it. Climate change was no longer happening, the public was told, thus contradicting all the earlier claims of run-away warming that the IPCC had consistently preached for years and years. The science had been settled, but then it was not. So what was the IPCC to do? Reichmuth:
Ultimately the IPCC decided that the pause could be explained as being unimportant.”
As Reichmuth describes it, the move by the IPCC resembled more a last-ditch effort to salvage the global warming scare. He writes:
Indeed only with great difficulty is the IPCC able to hide that it has a serious problem. […] If the thermometer remains stuck at its current level for a few more years, then all IPCC models calculations will become irrelevant and the basis for justifying CO2 reductions would be gone. So the IPCC decides to ignore the warming pause and claims that global warming continues and that man is responsible.”
And so the media and public get their cue to resume their panic. Few, however, are listening anymore.
In the 1980s dying forests refused to die
The call to resume the climate panic reminds Reichmuth of the 1980s …