JimBowie1958
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Global warming believers are feeling the heat ? Telegraph Blogs
Lol, the nonsense is finally starting to fall apart. First the Climate Gate Email scandal, and then the MET admitted that global temps have plateaued for the last 12 years.
Now even the IPCC's new report on AGW is forced to admit that the data don't match even the models predictions minimum increase predictions.
Poor Algore, aka ManBearPig, reality can be such a hateful thing.
Lol, the nonsense is finally starting to fall apart. First the Climate Gate Email scandal, and then the MET admitted that global temps have plateaued for the last 12 years.
Now even the IPCC's new report on AGW is forced to admit that the data don't match even the models predictions minimum increase predictions.
At the heart of the problem lie the computer models which, for 25 years, have formed the basis for the IPCCs scaremongering: they predicted runaway global warming, when the real rise in temperatures has been much more modest. So modest, indeed, that it has fallen outside the lowest parameters of the IPCCs prediction range. The computer models, in short, are bunk.
To a few distinguished scientists, this will hardly come as news. For years they have insisted that sensitivity the degree to which the climate responds to increases in atmospheric CO₂ is far lower than the computer models imagined. In the past, their voices have been suppressed by the bluster and skulduggery we saw exposed in the Climategate emails. From grant-hungry science institutions and environmentalist pressure groups to carbon traders, EU commissars, and big businesses with their snouts in the subsidies trough, many vested interests have much to lose should the global warming gravy train be derailed.
This is why the latest Assessment Report is proving such a headache to the IPCC. Its the first in its history to admit what its critics have said for years: global warming did pause unexpectedly in 1998 and shows no sign of resuming. And, other than an ad hoc new theory about the missing heat having been absorbed by the deep ocean, it cannot come up with a convincing explanation why. Coming from a sceptical blog none of this would be surprising. But from the IPCC, its dynamite: the equivalent of the Soviet politburo announcing that command economies may not after all be the most efficient way of allocating resources.
Poor Algore, aka ManBearPig, reality can be such a hateful thing.