Climatologist and weather researcher Tim Ball questions predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is an excerpt from a posting on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy website.
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon says, “unless we fight climate change, unless we stop this trend, we’ll have devastating consequences for humanity.”
Other leaders make similar silly statements.
But which way is it growing? Which trend are they going to stop? The one predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the one Mother Nature is providing?
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(Leaders) have chosen the IPCC even though all its predictions are wrong. Global temperatures of the last few years are impossible, according to the “science” of the IPCC.
Temperatures were predicted to increase but are declining.
Even (the IPCC’s) lowest scenario says the world should be at least 0.3C warmer. It doesn’t sound like much but it equals half the warming they claim occurred in the preceding 130 years.
Many people pointed to facts contradicting the “appealing” hypothesis but were ignored or marginalized for several reasons: apparent support from rising global temperatures between 1980 and 1998; evidence too technical for most people; effective personal attacks on skeptics; and mainstream media that was ignorant of the science and biased.
A plethora of evidence has not brought the hypothesis down.
The medieval warm period 1,000 years ago was warmer than today.
The last three interglacial periods were warmer than this one.
The claim of a 0.6 C rise during industrial times is unverifiable.
Four of the warmest years on record in the United States were in the 1930s, not the 1990s as claimed.
1934 was the warmest in the U.S., not 1998 as claimed.
The Goddard Institute of Space Studies adjusted historic data down to make the modern record relatively warmer.
Carbon dioxide levels now at 388 parts per million are the lowest in 300 million years.
There’s a limit of at most 1.4 C to the amount temperature can increase even if carbon dioxide doubles or triples.
In the 20th century human production of carbon dioxide didn’t fit the temperature record. From 1900 to 1940, human CO2 production levels were low but temperatures increased the most. From 1940 to 1980, human production levels increased the most but temperature declined.
The models predicted the atmosphere would warm faster than the surface but the opposite is happening.
These are more than enough facts to show the hypothesis is wrong. Polls indicate the public is learning, but global warming proponents and politicians are not and they continue to push their political agendas.
The Earth is cooling, with record low temperatures everywhere, a contradiction with the IPCC hypothesis anyone can grasp without scientific understanding.
1998 was an unusually warm year attributed to El Nino. 1999 was cooler and global warming proponents correctly said the drop from 1998 was not evidence of a trend.
Temperatures increased slightly again in 2000, seeming to support the global warming contention.
However, since 2002 temperatures declined gradually, making global a trend that began in the southern hemisphere 10 years earlier.
Global warming proponents are now trying to prove the trend doesn’t exist. They play statistical games by predetermining the trend by the starting point chosen.
Choosing 2002 as a starting point appears to play the same game, but there’s a major difference.
The decline can’t happen, according to the IPCC hypothesis.
Its report says, “most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.”
According to their reports, CO2 levels have continued to increase due to human additions.
(But) if CO2 was causing a temperature increase, it should be global.
So what is happening cannot happen. The hypothesis and the models built on it are wrong.
Temperature declining while CO2 increased did force one change; they switched focus from global warming to climate change.
Political leaders say they are going to stop climate change.
It is an arrogant, ignorant claim adopted because they accepted IPCC claims and then chose to ignore scientific evidence showing they were wrong.
Now they’re ignoring nature, which doesn’t listen.
