10 April 2008
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/601511/an-emerging-truth.thtml
There is now unequivocal evidence that the temperature of the planet is
dropping like a stone. As the DailyTech site re****ts:
All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASAGISS,
UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year,
global temperatures have dropped precipitously. A compiled list of all
the sources can be seen...The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C
up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming
recorded over the past 100 years.
Here's some other data you may not have seen. The troposphere hasn't
warmed for the past five years. And the oceans haven't warmed for five
years either, which has got this poor NPR re****ter scratching his head,
poor chap:
Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a
puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have
not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean
global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't
quite understanding what their robots are telling them. This is puzzling
in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003
have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it
comes to global warming.
And here is Ross McKittrick (who exposed the fundamental flaw in the
research underpinning the whole of MMGW theory, the hockey-stick curve
whose upward warming trend was achieved by omitting several hundred
years of global climate history) revealing that there is an error in
groundstation measurements such that past warming as measured by
near-surface air has been over-estimated by 100% for over 20 years to
2002 (since when there has been cooling).
While at Climate Audit, John Goetz says that the temperature record for
2005-2007 has actually been falsified to produce an upward trend.
Crumbs!
Now look at this curious development. The British government, as we
know,has swallowed the predictions of man-made global warming and is
busily trying to persuade us that it is committed to reducing carbon
emissions to counter the threat that we're all about to fry. Yet HM
Treasury has posted on its website a paper about solar cycles, which
says:
Based on solar maxima of approximately 50 for solar cycles 24 and 25, a
global temperature decline of 1.5°C is predicted to 2020, equating to
the experience of the Dalton Minimum.
And it also concludes:
A rural US temperature data set shows that recent and current
temperatures remain below the average of the first half of the 20th
century.
If the Treasury thinks it is worth putting up on its website a paper
forecasting global cooling, why is the British government adopting
policies, including green taxes and intrusive lifestyle
prescriptiveness, to deal with precisely the opposite eventuality?
Now, you may not know about this sudden deadly chill in the MMGW
atmosphere because the BBC hasn't told you. To be more precise, it did
try to re****t this - but then appears to have altered its re****t under
pressure from a global warming activist. This story by Roger Harrabin,
headlined 'Global temperatures "to decrease," ' was captured a few hours
after it appeared on the BBC website on April 4. Later that day, strange
things happened to this story. The headline changed from 'Global
temperature "to decrease" ' to 'Global warming "dips this year"; so did
the content; but then the headline changed back again to 'Global
temperature "to decrease" '. Google searches from that day show the two
titles with their different time references, although the article is
thought to have retained the original time of release throughout on its
webpage:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Global temperatures 'to decrease' Global
temperatures will drop slightly this year due to the effects of La
Ninanews.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm 17 hours ago -
Similar pages
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Global warming 'dips this year' Global
temperatures will drop slightly this year due to the effects of La Nina,
UN meteorologists say. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7329799. 6 hours ago -
Similar pages stm
Baffled? Here's the explanation. This site proudly reproduced an email
exchange between Harrabin and a global warming activist, Jo Abbess, who
introduced it with these words:
Climate Changers,
Remember to challenge any piece of media that seems like it's been
subject to spin or scepticism. Here's my go for today. The BBC actually
changed an article I requested a correction for, but I'm not really sure
if the result is that much better. Judge for yourselves...
As you will see from this remarkable exchange, Abbess demanded that
Harrabin change his re****t because it would play into the hands of
global warming sceptics.
Harrabin rebuffed her on the grounds that
We can't ignore the fact that sceptics have jumped on the lack of
increase since 1998. It is appearing regularly now in general media.
But when she told him there could be no debate about this because it was
an emerging truth and threatened to circulate his remarks so that he
might appear in an unfavourable light because it could be said that you
have had your head turned by the sceptics he caved in and said
Have a look in 10 minutes and tell me you are happier. We have changed
headline and more.
Appalling, no? But then, the headline mysteriously reverted to the
original (although the altered text appears not to have done so). Might
that have been because he realised to his horror that the email exchange
was now in the public domain? (And how - it's even hit the US in the
Glenn Beck show which seemed to show the BBC re****t had changed yet
again from the revised version disclosed in the email exchange.)
It's an emerging truth all right -but not quite the one Jo Abbess had in
mind.
Update, April 10: A publicist for BBC News has asked me to post up the
following statement:
A minor change was made to the 'Global temperatures "to decrease'' '
piece on our website to better reflect the science. A few people
including the re****t's authors, the World Meteorological Organisation,
pointed out to us that the earlier version had been ambiguous.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"How does a small increase in a very small component [of CO2] have such
a large apparent effect [On Climate]? The truth is that no one has yet
shown that it does." Don Aitkin
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