Democratic presidencies are marked in blue. Carter started the period of modern global warming in 1976, and the hottest year ever (2010) was caused by Obama’s hot air.
Grover Cleveland started the warming of 1893. Franklin Roosevelt also was a big warmer. Clinton was the biggest warmer of all.
By contrast, neither Bush caused any warming. Reagan started things cooling, until the Democrats took control of Congress.
Conclusion : expect fourteen years of cooling as Republicans control Washington.
Excellent news. Despite predictions (made by the world’s most brilliant and respected climatologist) that Manhattan should be drowning already, webcam images from this morning show that Times Square is still barely hanging on.
The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”
During October, RSS showed a large drop of 0.232 from September. It appeared that the battle for 2010 as hottest year ever was doomed. 2010 is turning out much cooler than 1998, with no hope of catching up.
But just when the battle appeared lost, the fighters at GISS got their second wind. Instead of a large drop in October temperature anomalies, they found a 0.08 rise! This keeps 2010 well ahead of their hottest year ever – 2005.
Reader Benjamin Franz complained that the GISS graph I used included ocean temperatures, whereas the NCAR graph was land only. Fair enough. Below is the same comparison using GISS land-only temperatures.
Here is the original graph which he objected to.
These apocalyptic events are so tiring that there is a great temptation to adopt the method of an ancient Chinese Emperor who would generously pay for predictions, but if they would not come true, would have the “fortune tellers” and their families executed.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/12-11-2010/115753-global_flood-0/
Global warming cured!
h/t to Marc Morano
And global warming begat climate change. And climate change begat global climate disruption. And Al groped at the masseuse. And Pachauri wrote porn. And Mann hid the decline. And all hid from the dread FOI.
Some creationists believe that world is 6,000 years old. Global warming facts are even somewhat less believable. Check out this new book:
Global warming threatens Antarctica’s penguins, book says
Adelie penguins depend on sea ice for survival. They use it as a platform from which they feed on krill larvae and silverfish eggs, the supply of which has been reduced because of scant sea ice.
Actually, Antarctic sea ice has been steadily increasing for as long as records have been kept.
Getting hit by the car was only a tiny part of the story.
I need some time to think about what happened today before I write further. It was an an abomination. I’m not going to say any more at this time, other than the fact that government is completely out of control.
So next time someone shows you a “statistically significant” result, do tell them: “I don’t care how low your p-value is. Show me the physics and tell me the size of the effect. Then we can discuss whether your hypothesis makes sense.” Stop quibbling about meaningless statistical smoke and mirrors.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=456
I’ve been saying the same thing for years. The science has to make sense.
Consider the hockey stock. Claiming that the trees stopped giving the right answer fifty years ago is a scientific abomination. Mann blew off the science and went straight into the world of statistical nonsense.
And apparently he forgot to mark what he had done on the hockey stick.
Chris makes a very good point (about warmers and left wingers in general) For them, anything can be true. Up is down, wrong is right, Frigid cold is actually warming, The arctic in (continuously dark) winter can look like the Bahamas. Marxism is a solution to a scientific problem. It’s a nether world where imagination runs amok and reality is just an alternative choice. This is commonly known as insanity.
For the rational world, there truly is a right (and wrong) answer, as defined by empirical evidence. Theories must be provable and falsification falsifies. On this issue of CAGW, someone is right and someone is wrong. For those of us not living in the nether world, the answer is largely self evident.
Like CAGW cultists, Jonestown cultists (and heaven’s Gate cultists, etc) were led by a prophet to believe they must destroy themselves to be free, or avoid impending doom.
So CAGW cultists seek to cut off their own supply of energy, the destruction of industrialized society, austere self denial and rationing, rather than plan to adapt or (better) overcome and thrive in the face of a perceived threat.
Most Realists, after tremendous investigation of AGW, have determined the risk is minimal, and stand ready to overcome. If we thought the risk great, we would choose to dominate the problem, not shrink from it. We approach such situations without fear.
We accurately observe the self destructive nature of the CAGW cult, and see that it represents a greater threat to mankind than the “problem” it seems to fear. We are successfully overcoming this threat as well.
