An entirely befuddled BBC reports that reality is turning out to be quite different than weather computer models that predicted rising global temperatures, and wonders whether scientists who incorrectly predicted the rising global temperatures may have also been wrong about what they said would be the cause.
Oh, and by the way, the BBC admits Earth has been cooling since 1998. It’s almost as if Eco-Nuts saw a weather trend and then made up a cause as a way to shove the same nutty environmentalist rules and laws down our throats that they’ve been pushing on us since the 1960s. Almost.
For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on?
Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man’s influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.
They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is.
“Natural cycles” you say? Of weather and climate? How can that be? They told me it was my plastic water bottle.
Sceptics argue that the warming we observed [from 1977 to 1998] was down to the energy from the Sun increasing. After all 98% of the Earth’s warmth comes from the Sun.
That giant burning hot thing in the sky controls heat here? That can’t be. If that was the case, a slight cyclical tilt in the Earth’s axis would also cause it to be warmer in certain parts of the year than in others, causing what some would call “seasons.” Clearly, that doesn’t happen. You must hate science!
[O]ne solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees [that the Sun has nothing to do with climate variations].He claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.
He is so excited by what he has discovered that he plans to tell the international scientific community at a conference in London at the end of the month.
I call BS. How can Corbyn be a scientist at all? Al Gore told me the science was settled. What is he even doing looking into this? And who in the hell is Don Easterbrook? THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!
According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated.
The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO).
For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too.
But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down.
These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years.
So could global temperatures follow? The global cooling from 1945 to 1977 coincided with one of these cold Pacific cycles.
What the deuce? With all the information about there about greening this and responsible that, how is this the first time any of us are hearing about this PDO correlation?
So what can we expect in the next few years?
Both sides have very different forecasts. The Met Office says that warming is set to resume quickly and strongly.
It predicts that from 2010 to 2015 at least half the years will be hotter than the current hottest year on record (1998).
Sceptics disagree. They insist it is unlikely that temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 1998 until 2030 at the earliest. It is possible, they say, that because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely.
One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.
F You! THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!
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