Updates
March 29, 2013: This is really starting to become quite a story. The (London) Telegraph has it right. We need to be worried about global cooling, not global warming.
No one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive.The activist faux environmentalists should be ashamed.
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But The Austrialian is now reporting:
But the fact that global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern is now widely accepted.Or as they say in Computer 101: "garbage in, garbage out."
The article begins:
Debate about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the sceptical fringe to the mainstream.
In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, then climate sensitivity - the way climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels - would be on negative watch but not yet downgraded.
Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says the lower than expected temperature rise between 2000 and the present could be explained by increased emissions from burning coal. [I can't make this stuff up. So, now, burning coal is good?]
For Hansen the pause is a fact, but it's good news that probably won't last.
International Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri recently told The Weekend Australian the hiatus would have to last 30 to 40 years "at least" to break the long-term warming trend. [We better keep burning coal if we want the cooling to last 30 to 40 years.]And exactly how does Rajendra come to that conclusion ... that the warming trend is long-term?
I guess these papers were released to give aid and comfort to activist environmentalists: all is not lost; we haven't gone over the precipice; there is still time to enact the Carbon Tax. Don't give up. Hang in there. Until these most recent papers came out, it was my understanding that among faux environmentalists the faithful knew that "we" had passed the tipping point, that nothing could be done now to forestall the global warming disaster. It turns out the Universe Man who controls the thermostat turned it down for the past 20 years.
By the way, Don points out this is relatively old news: a year ago it was reported that "we" may be headed to a vast cooling period:
Sixteen prominent scientists recently signed an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal expressing their belief that the theory of global warming is not supported by science. This has not been getting the attention it deserves because politicians (looking at you Al Gore) are frankly embarrassed to admit that they are wrong about the phenomenon known as global warming. Not only has our planet stopped warming, but we may be headed toward a vast cooling period.It has nothing to do with embarrassment (well, to some degree, I suppose). It all has to do with money; if "global warming" goes away, so does a lot of funding and speaking fees.
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Coincidentally, while posting the above, this link about the cold snap in Ireland was sent to me.
All air support has now been withdrawn from the relief operation to animals stranded in the snow in Northern Ireland.
RAF Chinook and Irish Air Corps helicopters had been dropping emergency food supplies to farms in high-ground areas of counties Antrim and Down.
The Department of Agriculture said it was now re-directing resources to the ground.
DUP MLA Paul Frew has said it is too soon to end aerial support.
"This has always been about speed and the helicopters and the Chinooks would be able to speedily get to those farmers and those livestock far quicker than any snow plough or track machine," he said.Wouldn't it be interesting if we are moving into a Global Cooling phase? And ground zero is Northern Ireland?
"This decision by the Department of Agriculture minister will cost farmers more livestock."
