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1. Ice age ends
2. Sea level rises
3. Coral atoll grows to stay just above sea level
4. Sea level rises
5. Coral atoll grows to stay just above sea level
6. People build a their city on the coral atoll, and kill the coral with pollution and ground water pumping
7. Sea level rises
8. Coral atoll doesn’t grow
9. Leader of island approaches stupid western governments, tells them it is their fault, and demands indulgence payments for absolution of carbon sin
10. Stupid western governments pay their indulgences
11. Island people build a new airport with the indulgence money

In 1999, Hansen’s global temperature graph looked like this –

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But the past changed between 1999 and 2013. Now his global temperature graph looks like this :

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The graph below superimposes his current graph (blue line) on top of the 1999 version (red line.) Note how he retroactively cooled 1910 by 0.20 degrees.

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29 Dec 1900 – The Swiss Glaciers Decreasing.

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Ignorant lay people are simply not qualified to question the wisdom of the experts.

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.”
The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

“But what … is it good for?”
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”
Western Union internal memo, 1876.

Stupid People – Bad Predictions

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

How weather drives our herd mentality

We all like to think of ourselves as individuals, making up our own minds what to do and when to do it.

But in Human Swarm, a new Channel 4 documentary, Jimmy Doherty reveals new evidence that suggests that in many ways we actually think and move like members of a herd of animals and that this swarm behaviour is driven by the powerful force of the weather.

The Met Office has the expertise and experience to combine the latest science with ground breaking advances in technology and local understanding to deliver operational advantage to our customers that can help businesses manage risks and opportunities as they arise from our weather and our collective behaviour.

How weather drives our herd mentality

Twenty-five percent of all global warming is due to data tampering at GISS since 2004.

2004 Version     2012 Version

This is on top of all their data tampering prior to 2004.

Intellicast – Weekly Precipitation in United States

Evidence of climate change is all around us, manifesting in superstorms, wildfires, and melting ice. But temperature spikes recorded by weather stations over the past 15 years have been more muted than was previously the case, and lower than climate models had predicted.

The US is experiencing the longest period without a major hurricane strike since the Civil War. This year’s wildfire count is the lowest on record. And Arctic ice is at a 12 year high.

While the increase in land temperatures has slowed down, the warming of oceans has sped up. About 90 percent of global warming ends up heating the oceans — and that percentage figure has been even higher over the last 10 years or so.

The missing heat has secretly sunk to the bottom of the sea.

It’s hard to sea, but the globe is still warming | Grist

Belief in witchcraft comes from world class stupid people like the ones who write for Grist. They view perfectly ordinary events and imagine that they are seeing dark magic.

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