I Told You So

I know I’ve been a bit of a harpy about this global-warming malarkey, but finally the scientific community and the media have begun to slink away into the shadows … to avoid the full-monty embarrassment of how wrong their predictions were. Matt Ridley in the Wall Street Journal has opened the kimono to reveal just how naked these global-warming charlatans were … and some still are. In particular he says: 

On Sept. 23 the United Nations will host a party for world leaders in New York to pledge urgent action against climate change. Yet leaders from China, India and Germany have already announced that they won’t attend the summit and others are likely to follow, leaving President Obama looking a bit lonely. Could it be that they no longer regard it as an urgent threat that some time later in this century the air may get a bit warmer?

 This article goes on to concede: 

The climate-research establishment has finally admitted openly what skeptic scientists have been saying for nearly a decade: Global warming has stopped since shortly before this century began.

 If you can bring yourself to eat a little crow with ketchup, read his entire article (he still offers a few face saving caveats for you believers) … see: Online WSJ Article.

Yes I also know that, in order to keep the grant money flowing, these ding-a-ling “scientists” have morphed their warming warnings into that of a “climate change” mantra and point to any natural disaster as evidence that mankind is pissing in its own soup. But, as I have pointed out in the past, acts of God have occurred throughout eternity … and are quite likely not the consequence of the internal combustion engine … see: Climate Disruptions and Climate Change Horsesh*t. (Sorry for being so strident but the sheer magnitude and economic consequence of this ruse has me angry ...)

If anyone would like a tee shirt with the “eye heart CO2” graphic at the end of the above-referenced scatological hyperlink, let me know. I am thinking about having some of them silk-screened. (You could wear it to the Democrat convention.)

Drought Data

As a follow-up to my blog a few days back … see: Climate Disruptions where I pointed out that the number of serious weather events over the last 110 years do not seem to be clustered in recent years. (Thus, once again, debunking the wild-eyed climate-disruption hysteria of our sinister climate charlatans.)  I have received criticism from one of this blog’s perpetual nemesis … harping that loss of life was not a good measure of the gravity of these climate events. Sooo, I recently found some hard physical data about the trends in global droughts over the last thirty years … see: Watts Up With That.

Clearly, viewing the very-well sourced chart therein, not only have droughts around the world not increased over this time period, but, to my eye, they actually seem to be declining.

Is this reduction in global droughts now to be defined as a “climate disruption?”

You know the answer as well as I do.

Afterward: And here is a contribution by a reader who is also a doubter (and proud of it) ... see: News Busters Piece.

Climate Disruptions

As previously noted the latest buzzword from the climate charlatans is "climate disruptions." Jerry Brown is blaming the current drought in California on "climate deniers" such as myself ... see: Breitbart Story . (Actually, I don't understand how anyone can deny such a thing as "climate.") Anyhow, to see how many climate disruptions that we have had in the 20th century, I went to Google and found the following table of natural disasters ranked by loss of life ... see: Natural Disasters of the 20th Century.  Peruse this table as you wish, but I will briefly summarize it here:

Droughts           26                (virtually all in Africa)
Earthquakes     25                (last one in 1990 in Iran)
Epidemics         17                (not assumed to be climate related)
Floods                 12                (none after 1959)
Typhoons           12                (last one in 1991 in Bangladesh)
Famines               4                (worst one purposely caused by Stalin)
Volcanoes           2                (Martinique, 1902 and Columbia, 1985)
Landslide             1                (Russia, 1939)
Storm                    1                (China, 1930)

(Please note that there are no hurricanes or tornadoes listed in these top 100.)

Ah, you say ... but what about the 21st century.  So I went back to Google and found the following: Top 10 Natural Disasters of the 21st Century ... which again does not include any hurricanes or tornadoes ... but does include two heat waves ... one in Europe in 2003 and one in Russia in 2010 which would have ranked 57th and 61st in the list of 20th century "disruptions.".  Is this enough evidence to scare the wits out of our children, try to starve plants of their sustenance (CO2), and turn our economies up-side down?

 I am still a doubter.

Chaff

I am suffering from indignation fatigue due to a overabundance of national outrages … gender pay inequality, the Benghazi scandal, the Koch brothers’ political donations, the IRS’s Tea Party targeting scandal, climate change, the Fast and Furious government gun-running, the release of illegal-immigrant criminals, our botched foreign policy vis-à-vis Russia, the looming federal carbon tax, Obamacare disruptions to our health-care system, the return of school segregation, NSA eavesdropping, President Obama’s selective enforcement of our laws, Iran’s rush to atomic weaponry, the need to increase the minimum wage, Syria’s continued use of chemical weapons, extending unemployment benefits, continued lethargic national employment and economic growth, our refusal to approve the Keystone pipeline … and so on ad infinitum.

Perspicacious readers might have noticed that the above list contains numerous serious scandals of both commission and omission on the part of our current “government.” But every other outrage listed  is, in my opinion, chaff. Just like fighter planes release metallic chaff to confuse the tracking of enemy radar, the Obama administration and their henchmen are working overtime to manufacture news stories of little real consequence in order to crowd out their numerous serious failings. As a result, the public finds it difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff … and Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc. are doing their level best to skate through the governmental carnage they have created.

Now, dear reader, you might take some notice of the placement of such chaff on the evening TV news and in our biased print media … and ignore it. We have many too many serious scandals that are being conveniently buried by all this mostly-manufactured filler.

Sea Levels

The Obama administration has started its all-out press to once-again kowtow Americans into fiscal submission on the question of global warming … aka, climate change … and now being called “climate disruptions.” (How can anyone debate “climate disruptions?”) This is a semantic dance by our ever-intrusive government to find the right wordings to stampede us stupid non-scientists into acceding to more regulations, more taxes, and more crony capitalism. The mantra that is being ballyhooed now is increasing sea-levels … which, of course, are going to cause economic havoc and loss of lives along all the coastlines of the world. Unless you live miles back from the shore, you are doomed! Yikes!

Well, as it turns out, sea levels are rising … and they are falling … as they have been doing for eons. It all depends on where you are located … see: SPPI Analysis. The rationale for this "predicted" catastrophic rising of sea levels is centered on ice melting at the poles and in Greenland … which has pretty much stopped … if not reversed … see: Skeptical Science. So the polar bears are not in imminent danger of disappearing and the Emperor penguins should survive another winter in Antarctica.

But the arm-waving climate-frauds‘ claims that gall me most are that this is all "settled science" and that 97% of scientists agree that we are doomed by our rising CO2 levels.  This is all  hogwash.  There is no such thing as "settled science" and the following is but a small list of eminent scientist who are global-warming skeptics (from Wikipedia). There are many many others:

Scientists questioning the accuracy of IPCC climate projections 

Scientists in this section have made comments that it is not possible to project global climate accurately enough to justify the ranges projected for temperature and sea-level rise over the next century. They may not conclude specifically that the current IPCC projections are either too high or too low, but that the projections are likely to be inaccurate due to inadequacies of current global climate modeling. 

Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus of the School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study; Fellow of the Royal SocietyRichard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan emeritus professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences 

Nils-Axel Mörner, retired head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University, former chairman of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999–2003) 

Garth Paltridge, retired chief research scientist, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research and retired director of the Institute of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, visiting fellow ANU 

Peter Stilbs, professor of physical chemistry at Royal Institute of Technology, StockholmPhilip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London 

Hendrik Tennekes, retired director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute 

Fritz Vahrenholt, German politician and energy executive with a doctorate in chemistry 

 Scientists arguing that global warming is primarily caused by natural process 

Scientists in this section have made comments that the observed warming is more likely attributable to natural causes than to human activities. 

Khabibullo Abdusamatov, mathematician and astronomer at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences 

Sallie Baliunas, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsTim Ball, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Winnipeg 

Robert M. Carter, former head of the school of earth sciences at James Cook University 

Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa 

Chris de Freitas, associate professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland 

David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester 

Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University 

William M. Gray, professor emeritus and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Department of Atmospheric Science,Colorado State University 

William Happer, physicist specializing in optics and spectroscopy, Princeton University 

Ole Humlum, professor of geology at the University of Oslo 

Wibjörn Karlén, professor emeritus of geography and geology at the University of Stockholm 

William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology 

David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware 

Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Missouri 

Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa 

Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and professor of geology at Carleton University in Canada 

Ian Plimer, professor emeritus of Mining Geology, the University of Adelaide 

Arthur B. Robinson, biochemist and former faculty member at the University of California, San Diego

 Murry Salby, former chair of climate at Macquarie University 

Nicola Scafetta, research scientist in the physics department at Duke UniversityTom Segalstad, head of the Geology Museum at the University of Oslo 

Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia 

Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 

Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in HuntsvilleHenrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Center 

George H. Taylor, former director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University 

Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, professor emeritus from University of Ottawa  

Scientists arguing that the cause of global warming is unknown 

Scientists in this section have made comments that no principal cause can be ascribed to the observed rising temperatures, whether man-made or natural. 

Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. 

Claude Allègre, politician; geochemist, emeritus professor at Institute of Geophysics (Paris). 

Robert Balling, a professor of geography at Arizona State University. 

John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to several IPCC reports. 

Petr Chylek, space and remote sensing sciences researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma. 

Ivar Giaever, professor emeritus of physics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

Vincent R. Gray, New Zealander physical chemist with expertise in coal ashes 

Keith Idso, botanist, former adjunct professor of biology at Maricopa County Community College District and the vice president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change 

Antonino Zichichi, emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bologna and president of the World Federation of Scientists.  

Scientists arguing that global warming will have few negative consequences

Scientists in this section have made comments that projected rising temperatures will be of little impact or a net positive for human society and/or the Earth's environment. 

Craig D. Idso, faculty researcher, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University and founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change  

Sherwood Idso, former research physicist, USDA Water Conservation Laboratory, and adjunct professor, Arizona State University 

Patrick Michaels, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and retired research professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia

QED

Afterthought: Why does no one ever point out that there are clearly a few instances of the land sinking (or uplifting) ... due to the Earth's plate tectonics shifting ... instead of the sea level rising (or falling)?  EXTRA: I found a reference ... the term for this land sinking is "subsidence" and can occur for other reasons too. To read more on this process see: Norfolk, VA Investigation.

Afterward: Read what happens to a distinguished climatologist who has second thoughts about global warming ... see: Breitbart Story.

More Afterward: Here is an interesting take on the 97% claim: Powerline Revelations.