While every snow flurry or cool snap is often cited as evidence of the folly of “global warming” by critics, scientists at the NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies have released data showing that 2010 now ranks as the hottest climate year on record.
The combined land-ocean temperature readings from NASA’s Goddard Institute indicate that 2010 has surpassed what it identified as the previous warmest climate year, 2005.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data shows that 1998 was the warmest year on record with 2005 close behind. The findings have been released after another failure to reach a significant reductions in emissions in the Cancun summit.
Nations again refused to make the cuts necessary to prevent global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
This report comes with the disclosure that a top FOX executive ordered correspondents not to cite global warming statistics and to question the basis for climate change claims.
Source: Washington Post
“The reason people here don’t give me a hard time for being a polymath is because I’ve demonstrated time and again that I am indeed a polymath – it’s a noun that means a person of great and varied learning. Many of the other regular posters here – including Elaine – are also polymaths. Birds of a feather flock together. The only people who give me a hard time about it are trolls and those ignoramuses that are threatened by anyone smarter than them.
Kinda like you, dancing monkey.”
fo·lie de gran·deur, it keeps getting worse.
Al Gore is a charlatan. A modern snake oil salesman. It’s no wonder you boys like him. Birds of a feather and all that.
(Buddha elbows Bob and offers him a baby seal clubbing club.)
They don’t let people with the scientific intelligence of a marmoset and a history of making shit up testify in front of Congress.
Those kinds of witnesses get impeached due to their lack of credibility.
Kinda like you, badtroll.
And Chan? The reason people here don’t give me a hard time for being a polymath is because I’ve demonstrated time and again that I am indeed a polymath – it’s a noun that means a person of great and varied learning. Many of the other regular posters here – including Elaine – are also polymaths. Birds of a feather flock together. The only people who give me a hard time about it are trolls and those ignoramuses that are threatened by anyone smarter than them.
Kinda like you, dancing monkey.
Monckton is a charlatan. A modern snake oil salesman. It’s no wonder you boys like him. Birds of a feather and all that.
29 degrees here in New York.
Brr.
Ms. Elaine dispute the facts regardless of where it comes from. I could say the same of Al Gore.
Ask yourself this Why?
Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing
Thursday, April 23, 2009
UK’s Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington.
They didn’t want Big Al embarrassed.
Why is it that the man is attacked?
“Christopher Walter, the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, has conceded that his claim to have won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 was a joke.
Lord Monckton, a prominent climate sceptic, is on a sponsored speaking tour to undermine support for carbon emissions cuts. Quizzed about his alleged Nobel status by the Herald yesterday, the British peer said ”it was a joke, a joke” and never meant to be taken seriously.”
The House of Lords members (I think) do not vote. So claiming to be from the Upper house could be his way of saying he is a voting member of Parliament.
Heck Buddha is laughing claims he is a polymath and no one gives him a hard time.
Bdaman,
You’re giving Jay a link to a paper from the Science and Public Policy Institute? Isn’t Lord Christopher Monckton affiliated with that organization?
*****
Jay,
Consider the source.
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From Mother Jones (12/4/2009)
No. 2: Lord Christopher Monckton
Meet the 12 loudest members of the chorus claiming that global warming is a joke and that CO2 emissions are actually good for you.
http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/dirty-dozen-climate-change-denial-10-lord-christopher-monckton
Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, lends an air of nobility to the ignoble job of confusing the facts about climate change. A self-described former special adviser to Margaret Thatcher on matters ranging from hydrogeology to epidemiology, he has more recently devoted himself to climatology. During a whistle-stop tour of the former colonies this year, the grandiloquent Cambridge classics major addressed a Friends of America rally in West Virginia alongside Ted Nugent and Sean Hannity, visited Canada on a speaking engagement titled Apocalypse? No!, and warned a House Ways and Means subcommittee that regulating carbon dioxide—”a harmless and beneficial trace gas”—will create “fiscal incontinence.”
In 2006, Monckton, who declined to comment for this story, burst onto the climate denial scene with a story in the Sunday Telegraph claiming that “politicians, scientists and bureaucrats contrived a threat of Biblical floods, droughts, plagues, and extinctions worthier of St. John the Divine than of science.” It received so many hits that the paper’s website crashed. Since then, the tweedy personage has been embraced by cranks on both sides of the Atlantic. The Heartland Institute sent him to crash the 2007 UN climate talks in Bali and featured him at its renegade climate change conference in June. He is chief policy adviser to the Virginia-based Science and Public Policy Institute, a warren of climate skeptics whose most notable victory was identifying a mislabeled illustration in The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming, a children’s book.
The so-called Climategate scandal has sent Monckton into overdrive. Late last month, he penned “Climategate: Caught Green Handed!,” a 43-page screed, published by SPPI, that purports to offer “the cold facts about the hot topic of global temperature change after the Climategate scandal.” He also appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ show to say that Al Gore and climate scientists should be arrested and the United Nations shuttered, lest the global warming movement create a one-world government run by those “who do not care how many people they kill with their policies.”
Monckton’s fame is eclipsed only by the size of his fibs. Though he has told two senators that he’s a “peer” “member” of the House of Lords; he’s not. He stood for election in 2007 and got no votes. In an open letter to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), he claimed to have been named a Nobel Peace Laureate for correcting the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel in 2007. Needless to say, he does not have a Nobel. And less glamorous, Guardian reporter George Monbiot busted Monckton for editing his own Wikipedia page to falsely claim that he’d received an $80,000 libel settlement from the newspaper.
Jay:
Let me get this straight, you believe the science from Michael Mann and others. Ok. These people took readings from numerous “outside” sources to come to a conclusion that the earth is warming.
But when Bdaman mentions it is cold outside, in fact colder than it has been in quite awhile, that is to be discounted because Michael Mann and others took “outside” readings. Do I have that right?
Science is about grants, I wonder how much politics played in Michael Manns data? We already know that data was manufactured and that locations were chosen on purpose to give higher readings to match the political “climate”. Hundreds of millions of dollars in grant money was at stake.
So we cant look outside because others have looked outside and we need to take their word for it because they are “impartial” scientists?
Is that right?
Bdaman:
do I have the above right? Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Jay here’s a good read for you. I think you were the one that was saying 97 percent of climate scientist agree.
CLIMATE “CONSENSUS” OPIATE
The 97% Solution
by Dennis Ambler | December 14, 2010
A recent re-posting on the SPPI blog from the HockeySchtick site, with the title, “The 97% “Consensus” is only 75 Self-Selected Climatologists” was a second look at the claim first made in January 2009, in a paper called “Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” by Peter Doran and Kendall Zimmerman, from the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois.
This was their stated aim:
“The objective of our study presented here is to assess the scientific consensus on climate change through an unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists.”
It was roundly de-bunked at the time by several commentators and it would have been forgotten and consigned to its proper place in the dustbin, if it hadn’t been continually quoted by activists as fact.
Barry R. Bickmore, an associate professor of geological sciences at Brigham Young University, Utah, was the most recent to quote it in an op ed in the Deseret News of November 25th 2010, entitled “Global warming consensus matters”, where he attacks Utah Senator Orin Hatch for challenging consensus claims.
He starts by saying,
“Two recent studies have shown that 97 percent to 98 percent of researchers who actively publish peer-reviewed research on climate change agree that humans are significantly affecting Earth’s climate.”
He then proceeds to justify the use of “consensus” statements.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/consensus_opiate.pdf
Sure Jay, Mr. Everything is peer reviewed.
Chan,
How is believing in science a bias?
The only thing demonstrated on this site from you and bdaman is willfull ignorance of global warming science. Continually siting articles about it being cold outsite does not refute what the climate models are predicting.
But feel free to remain ignorant, disrupt meaningful dialogue, and continue making personal attacks on others who disagree. Since you have no science to stand upon, i guess thats all you can do.
Seriously though, unless you have something – no matter how venal or inane – to add to the conversation, Ol’ Once A Troll Always A Troll?
You’re wasting your time attacking me.
Unless you don’t think giving me exactly the reaction I desire is the shape of my victory. In which case, carry on.
Just because multiple studies reveal that FOX is nothing but propaganda isn’t an indicator of confirmation bias.
Merely confirmation.
Buddah is Laughing:
“Well it’s a good thing there are thousands of you.
It’ll take that many of you to make a good moron.”
That was actually funny, finally. I have been disappointed of late. I do enjoy a good hearty laugh.
Your flu meds wearing off?
Since John Stewart Mill didn’t really understand his own views until near the end of his life, I wouldn’t use him as an exemplar of someone who knew something.
The “polymath” strikes again.
I suppose all of those bastions of the liberal media fed us the “unadulterated truth” as well.
Confirmation bias can be such a bummer.
I really expected more from you. I am just another person disappointed about the reality vs. the self manufactured myth.
By the way I am neither a Libertarian nor a conservative. But I certainly believe in the Enlightenment. Your boy Mill rejected the Enlightenment when he finally fully embraced socialism near the end of his life.
Well it’s a good thing there are thousands of you.
It’ll take that many of you to make a good moron.
Buddha is Laughing:
I like “poking” the Bear. Living on the edge is fun, never know when that old bear will “bite” you.
Yes I am a member of CABIL. Its out in the open now. There are thousands of us.
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Elaine,
That thought had occurred to me as well. 🙂
Or to quote John Stuart Mill, “Not all conservatives are stupid people, but most stupid people are conservatives.”