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Weather ‘Consistent with Global Warming’
5th February 2009. Here’s a picture of my dog enjoying global warming:
The view from the front of my house:
As the Telegraph reports on 3rd February: ‘Snow is consistent with global warming, say scientists’
“Britain may be in the grip of the coldest winter for 30 years and grappling with up to a foot of snow in some places but the extreme weather is entirely consistent with global warming, claim scientists.”
Interestingly, the Telegraph article quotes former Head of Communications at The Royal Society, Bob Ward, who seems to have moved to yet another branch of the global warming industry, now spokesman for the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change at London School of Economics. His previous post was as Director of Global Science Networks at ‘Risk Management Solutions Ltd.’
Of course, heat waves and cold spells can occur during periods of global cooling or warming. While the UK shivers, parts of Australia have been experiencing a heat wave. The record for Adelaide is 46 degrees C (114.98 degrees F), set 70 years ago. The other day it topped 45.5 degrees C (113.9 degrees F). How did much less CO2 cause such high temperatures 70 years ago, and much more CO2 only nearly equal the temperatures today?
We’re going to have to wait and see if the global cooling trend since 2002 will continue, driven by potentially lower solar activity and a negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) which could last for at least another 20 years.
February 7th, 2009 at 7:04 am
The bottom line is the temperatures have not gone like the Hockey Stick or Hansens’s 1988 predictions. The temperatures have risen very slightly and may be on their way down. If we were in the post Victorian Age we would see the temperature climbing without AGW.
The admission that “We’re going to have to wait and see if the global cooling trend since 2002 will continue, driven by potentially lower solar activity and a negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) which could last for at least another 20 years.”
Allows for so much error/ nonsense/ fraud it is very worrying.
It seems to start acknowleding that the sun might just have someting to do with our temperatures. When temperatures peaked in 1998 there was no mention of PDO or Solar activity– it was all AGW. If the models on which the estimated data from , which might cause us to spend trillions of dollars ,can’t get a 10- 15 yr projection reasonably acurately right , why would they be any better in the 20 to 90 yr mark. The meltdown in the financial sector should be a good lesson in prediction and how we can not understand what is happening and get it totally wrong. The last 10 yrs climate data world wide suggests we should be careful— its not happening like the models predict