Historic Weather Records Rubbish UK PM Cameron’s Attempts To Blame Floods On ‘Global Warming’
…‘Climate Hustle’ review: ‘This is an amazing film…Really excellent…uses humor…May be the best skeptical film ever’
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CLIMATE HUSTLE, new documentary film from Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, reviewed by Tom Harris, Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition.
Selected excerpts from Tom Harris video review: “A fabulous film narrated by Marc Morano.
This is an amazing film. I think it even challenges the great global warming swindle as the best film ever put out on this side of the climate debate.
One of the things you will really enjoy is you will see the contest of the forecasts of the climate alarmists with what really happened.
Morano has combined a really excellent, excellent overview of the field with humor and fantastic graphics and interviews with some of the world’s leading experts who don’t think that we are causing a climate crisis.
He also talks about some of the dangerous consequences of what happens if you oppose political correctness.
Make sure you see Climate Hustle. It is a big success!
The UN Sec. Gen. really should see this film because it really shows that the [climate] data is not there.”
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Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels: ‘Homogenized’ US Warming Trend May Be Grossly Exaggerated
For much of the last year, Washington has been abuzz with rumors that NOAA manipulated the global temperature records to get them to “disappear” the “hiatus” in global warming since the mid-1990s, a phenomenon that is obvious in global satellite data. Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, seems to smelling smoke over this. It appears that Anthony Watts has found the fire.…
‘Yet another study finds little basis for attribution of extreme weather (drought-flood-storm) to human-caused climate change.’
Excerpts:
“There can be a tendency in some quarters to want to confidently attribute extremes to anthropogenic climate change in the absence of scientific consensus or to argue that it isn’t possible to link individual extreme events with anthropogenic climate change, neither of which is correct. Given that many extreme weather and climate events have occurred before substantial anthropogenic modification of the climate system has been clearly detected in many regions, an over simplistic attribution to human causes could be costly. For example, based on the occurrence of a particularly damaging extreme event, plans could made to adapt to an increasing frequency of such events in future when in fact this is not what is expected.”
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Analysis: Climate Models Have Been Wrong About Global Warming For Six Decades
“Everyone by now is familiar with the ‘pause’ or ‘slowdown’ in the rate of global warming that has taken place over the past 20 years of so, but few realize is that the observed warming rate has been beneath the model mean expectation for periods extending back to the mid-20th century—60+ years,” Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger, climate scientists at the libertarian Cato Institute, write in a working paper released in December.
Michaels and Knappenberger compared observed global surface temperature warming rates since 1950 to what was predicted by 108 climate models used by government climate scientists to predict how much carbon dioxide emissions will warm the planet.
What they found was the models projected much higher warming rates than actually occurred.
“During all periods from 10 years (2006-2015) to 65 (1951-2015) years in length, the observed temperature trend lies in the lower half of the collection of climate model simulations,” Michaels and Knappenberger write, “and for several periods it lies very close (or even below) the 2.5th percentile of all the model runs.”
To further bolster their case that climate models are over-predicting warming rates, Michaels and Knappenberger looked at how climate models fared against satellite and weather balloon data from the mid-troposphere. The result is the same, and climate models predicted way more warming than actually occurred.
“This is a devastating indictment of climate model performance,” Michaels and Knappenberger write. “For periods of time longer than about 20 years, the observed trends from all data sources fall beneath the lower bound which contains 95 percent of all model trends and in the majority of cases, falls beneath even the absolute smallest trend found in any of the 102 climate model runs.”
“The amount of that over-prediction comports well with a growing body of scientific findings and growing understanding that the sensitivity of the earth’s surface temperature to rising atmospheric greenhouse gas levels… lies towards (and yet within) the low end of the mainstream assessed likely range.”
Satellite temperatures, which measure the lowest few miles of the Earth’s atmosphere, show there’s been no significant global warming for …
State Lawmakers Urged to Question Taxpayer-Subsidized Climate ‘Alarmists’
“Every time the Republicans come to power they leave the infrastructure the Democrats put into place untouched,” Taylor said. “This way when the Democrats come back into power, they just pick up right where they left off.”
With the Virginia General Assembly set to convene its 2016 legislative session on Jan. 13, Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot and producer of the new film “Climate Hustle,” said he sees an opportunity to push back against the infrastructure Taylor describes.
“Since George Mason is a state university, the relevant government oversight should be taken,” Morano said in an email to The Daily Signal. “What Shukla has done may be the tip of the iceberg.”
‘Politically Imposed Orthodoxy’
Like Wittman, the congressman running for governor, Morano sees federal funding corrupting the scientific process.
“The funding of climate and climate-related studies by the U.S. government are now fueled by studying man’s influence on climate,” Morano told The Daily Signal. “And the researcher had better not have in mind any notion of challenging the politically imposed orthodoxy that mankind is driving dangerous climate change.”
He added:
Study after study seems to be just a series of models-based predictions of the future. In fact, they use model predictions to counter the current data, which shows mankind’s influence on climate is not even measurable. The prediction studies can claim ‘it is worse than we thought’ not because current data is showing that, but because predictions of 50 to 100 years out are now more dire and thus ‘worse than we thought.’
“If a scientist publishes something ‘off message’ from the warmist narrative, they quickly find out that their results are not welcome,” he said. “Renowned scientists like hurricane expert Dr. Bill Gray found out that when you challenge skepticism, your federal funding dries up.”…
Welcome to a new geologic era – The Idiocene – Era ‘when common sense exited the planet’ due to fear of ‘global warming’
…Happy New Year! Professor warns students: Planet on verge of ‘global apocalypse’ caused by humans
Via: http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25649/
DECEMBER 29, 2015
An assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst concluded his comparative politics course earlier this month by telling students the planet is dying because of human activity – and there is little hope of reversing course.
“We are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, one that we are responsible for as a species,” Professor Timothy Pachirat told students on the last day of class. “We humans are creating the conditions for our own extinction as a species.” He also suggested that because of global warming, students’ granchildren might only be able to see a coral reef in “history books.” He also said the global consumption of farm animals illustrates in part “that we are living in a period of more suffering than the world has ever known.”
The dire predictions were among a long list of apocalyptic warnings the Yale-educated scholar laid out for his students in a 20-minute tangent that mirrored a TED talk in scope. Audio of the professor’s comments were exclusively obtained by The College Fix.
“Here’s the claim: If we accept my wide definition of comparative politics, okay, as the interdisciplinary study of how power works across time and space, then I want to argue the end of the Anthropocene is the single most important political context for the study of comparative politics today,” Pachirat said. “Yeah, I know what is going on with ISIS and ISIL and all that. I am still making this argument.”
The “Anthropocene” is a term used since its coining by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in 2000 to denote the present time interval, in which many geologically significant conditions and processes are profoundly altered by human activities.
“He made a lot of bold claims, further than the vast majority of green movement members have made, on how the Earth is unrecoverable,” the student said, adding that in general the professor did not inject his extreme views into lectures during the fall semester like he did on the final day.
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Pachirat preceded his comments by acknowledging he was only giving his opinion, and that students
…Obama’s Climate Lie Of The Year: Warming Caused Alaska’s Glaciers To Recede
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A 2014 peer-reviewed paper in the scientific journal The Cryosphere finds global glaciers melted at the same rate in the first half of the 20th century as in the second half. As explained in the blog The Hockey Schtick:
…This implies no man-made influence on glacier melt, since the melting began naturally at the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 with “safe” CO2 levels, and continued at the same rate throughout the 20th century with no acceleration. The authors predict glacier mass loss will continue at the same rate in the 21st century and have “relatively weak dependence” on future greenhouse gas emissions.
Since glacier mass loss is the largest single cause of sea level rise, this explains why there has been no acceleration of sea level rise over the past 100-200 years and why sea level rise is also unlikely to accelerate in the 21st century.
The lack of any acceleration in glacier mass loss and sea level rise in the 20th century despite an exponential rise in greenhouse gases proves that both of these processes are primarily natural and unrelated to CO2.During prior interglacials, most glaciers disappeared, as well as the entire ice sheet of Greenland and West Antarctica, all entirely natural and with “safe” levels of CO2. There is no evidence the current interglacial is any different.