Why I Love To Blog -- We Now Have 435 Reasons Why The Models Are Off -- October 14, 2014

I honestly don't know if it's 435 reasons. Maybe it's only 235 reasons. IceAgeNow or ClimateDepot (both at the sidebar at the right) would have the answer.

But sometime ago I recall the number was triple-digit, something like 245 reasons why the global warming models are wrong, or 245 reasons to explain why the global warming models are wrong.

The "best" reason: the ocean was a "heat sink."

Then no one could find any evidence that the ocean was any warmer than before. Not only that, Antarctic sea ice has hit all-time records in recorded history. So, back to square one.

This is probably the funniest story of all. And it comes from BBC. This is something one would expect from Fox News.

The latest (and greatest) theory: Global climate models have underestimated the amount of CO2 being absorbed by plants, according to new research.

Scientists say that between 1901 and 2010, living things absorbed 16% more of the gas than previously thought.

The authors say it explains why models consistently overestimated the growth rate of carbon in the atmosphere.

But experts believe the new calculation is unlikely to make a difference to global warming predictions.

This theory, of course, won't hold up either.

Regardless of what plants absorb or don't absorb, the fact is the atmosphere has already crossed the dreaded threshold of 400 ppm of CO2.

Note that the article conveniently does not mention that fact. Do a word/number/acronym search of the article (I didn't find "ppm" or "400" but I could have missed either).

But if the paper does not mention that the atmosphere has already crossed the dreaded threshold of 400 ppm of CO2, the scientists have failed to explain why the earth continues to cool (or at least show no sign of warming for 18 years despite CO2 concentrations rising at an alarming rate -- like one or two ppm per decade or whatever it is).

The best they have come up with it that plants absorb a lot more CO2 that previously thought.

Atmospheric CO2 exceeds the magic threshold of "no return," i.e., 400 ppm.