What is happening to global temperatures in reality? The answer is: almost nothing for more than 10 years. Monthly values of the global temperature anomaly of the lower atmosphere, compiled at the University of Alabama from NASA satellite data, can be found at the website http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/. The latest (February 2012) monthly global temperature anomaly for the lower atmosphere was minus 0.12 degrees Celsius, slightly less than the average since the satellite record of temperatures began in 1979.
The lack of any statistically significant warming for over a decade has little effect on the lies that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its supporters attempt to demonize the atmospheric gas CO2 which is released when fossil fuels are burned.
The burning of fossil fuels has been one reason for an increase of CO2 levels in the atmosphere to around 395 ppm (or parts per million), up from preindustrial levels of about 280 ppm.
OR IN OTHER WORDS IT YOU HAD A STACK OF PAPER 12,500 SHEETS HIGH
THEN
FOUR OF THOSE SHEETS WOULD REPRESENT THE AMOUNT OF CO2 IN THE AIR
AND
ADDING ONE MORE SHEET WOULD REPRESENT THE INCREASE SINCE 1850
CO2 is not a pollutant. Life on earth flourished for hundreds of millions of years at much higher CO2 levels than we see today. Increasing CO2 levels will be a net benefit because cultivated plants grow better and are more resistant to drought at higher CO2 levels, and because warming and other supposedly harmful effects of CO2 have been greatly exaggerated. Nations with affordable energy from fossil fuels are more prosperous and healthy than those without.
The direct warming due to doubling CO2 levels in the atmosphere can be calculated to cause a warming of about one degree Celsius.
The IPCC computer models (Now proven to be manipulated) predict a much larger warming, three degrees Celsius or even more, because they assume changes in water vapor or clouds that supposedly amplify the direct warming from CO2. Many lines of observational evidence suggest that this “positive feedback” also has been greatly exaggerated.
There has indeed been some warming, perhaps about 0.8 degrees Celsius, since the end of the so-called Little Ice Age (THANK GOD!) in the early 1800s. Some of that warming has probably come from increased amounts of CO2, but the timing of the warming—much of it before CO2 levels had increased appreciably—suggests that a substantial fraction of the warming is from natural causes that have nothing to do with mankind.
Frustrated by the lack of computer-predicted warming over the past decade, some IPCC supporters have been claiming that “extreme weather” has become more common because of more CO2.
IN THE 70’S IT WAS GLOBAL COOLING
IN THE 90’S IT WAS GLOBAL WARMING
IN THE 2000’S IT WAS CLIMATE CHANGE
NOW IT’S “EXTREME WEATHER”
GIVE US A FUCKING BREAK YOU ECO-NAZIS!
After an unusually cold winter in 2011 (December 2010-February 2011) the winter of 2012 was unusually warm in the continental United States. But the winter of 2012 was bitter in Europe, Asia and Alaska.
Weather conditions similar to 2012 occurred in the winter of 1942, when the U.S. Midwest was unusually warm, and when the Wehrmacht encountered the formidable forces of “General Frost” in a Russian winter not unlike the one Russians just had.
A version of this article appeared Mar. 27, 2012, on page A13 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Global Warming Models Are Wrong Again.
via William Happer: Global Warming Models Are Wrong Again – WSJ.com.