Thread: How do you gin up global warming fear in a world which hasn't warmed in decades?

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How do you gin up global warming fear in a world which hasn't warmed in decades?

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'A hot-topic in the media these days has to do with the West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS), a region comprising about 8% of the ice covering Antarctica. Within that region, there are two glaciers that are sliding down to the sea at a steady pace, as glaciers always do. They comprise about 10% of the WAIS, less than 1% of Antarctic ice. This descent has been in progress for several thousand years, and is neither new nor man-caused. It will go on for a few thousand more, after which they’ll be gone. In the parlance of geology, those two glaciers are collapsing.

If that doesn’t sound to you like your usual meaning of the word “collapse,” you’re absolutely right. It’s a specialized geological term.'

'Unfortunately, attending to precise definitions takes time and seems boring. The media don’t want to run the risk of being boring, and so they take shortcuts and oversimplify. Consequently, a lot of people are misled by statements that use scientific words incorrectly.'

Are you frightened enough over what computer models predict sea level will be in a thousand years to welcome a centrally planned economy?

• Climate alarmists make major blunder in reporting Antarctica ice loss results: ‘Total ice loss from latest study is ‘consistent’ with, not ‘double’ prior study measurements’ The authors of this latest Antarctica ice loss study estimate that the rate of global sea level rise contributed by their measured Antarctica ice loss results is about 0.45 mm per year which is about the thickness of a human fingernail.
  The ice loss reported in this study for the massive Eastern Antarctica region which contains about 90 percent of the total Antarctica ice mass represents less than 2 percent of the total ice loss reported (-3 +/- 36 Gt. per year) with the uncertainty band being ten times greater than the nominal ice loss value reported.
  The climate alarmist reporters misunderstood the total Antarctica ice loss picture from this latest study and provided incorrect information in their articles. They appear to have confused this latest studies reported sea level rise contribution estimate of 0.45 mm per year which is about “double” prior study estimates of 0.19 mm per year as being applied to ice loss values which is incorrect.
  
  Posted May 24, 20149:04 AM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, ice, new, sea levels, study
  
• Geochemist: Chilling the melting Antarctic hysteria – ‘Thawing of glaciers is historically followed by refreezing’ 'Erosion of Antarctica’s glaciers has proceeded unabated since the end of the last ice age and continued slowly through the past century to the present day. Passage of time, even millennia, would be required before enough ice melted to raise sea levels by the 12 to 13 feet mentioned in recent news accounts, assuming the rate of about 7 inches per century remains constant...Statements suggesting man-made carbon dioxide somehow triggers high-velocity circumpolar winds over the Southern Ocean is speculative for a region already notorious for high winds and treacherous seas.
  
  Posted May 23, 201410:50 AM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, consensus buster, ice, media, sea levels
  
• Scientist counters media hype on Antarctic ice sheet ‘collapse: ‘It has been in progress for several thousand years, and is neither new nor man-caused’ Physicist Dr. Tom Sheahen: A hot-topic in the media these days has to do with the West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS), a region comprising about 8% of the ice covering Antarctica. Within that region, there are two glaciers that are sliding down to the sea at a steady pace, as glaciers always do. They comprise about 10% of the WAIS, less than 1% of Antarctic ice. This descent has been in progress for several thousand years, and is neither new nor man-caused. It will go on for a few thousand more, after which they’ll be gone.'
  
  Posted May 21, 20147:28 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, ice, media, new study, sea levels
  
• Misleading Hype Over Antarctic Ice Loss: ‘Antarctic land ice has been steadily disappearing since the end of the Ice Age, some 18,000 years ago’ 'Their new survey covers just three years, up to 2013. The previous period, that they compare against, was 2005-11. Would any serious scientists use such short periods to make claims about trends?'
  It has been widely reported that “the Antarctic is shedding twice the amount of a few years ago”. I have picked out the Guardian, but the BBC run with the same story, and doubtlessly many others too. Quite simply, the claim is false. The study finds that the new figure is “twice as much as when it was last surveyed”. These are two totally different things. The new Cryosat-2 radar altimeter dataset allows much more detailed analysis, leading to a fivefold increase in the sampling of coastal regions where the vast majority of all ice losses occur. Therefore, most of the newly identified ice loss was happening before, but just was not spotted.
  Of the figures they quote, by far the largest area, East Antarctica, is only losing 3Gt/year. Given that the margin of error is stated as +/-36, this is effectively zero, and it is quite likely that ice mass is growing there.
  We need to put these findings into historical perspective. Antarctic land ice has been steadily disappearing since the end of the Ice Age, some 18,000 years ago.
  Studies show that Antarctic temperatures during the MWP and earlier centuries were comparable with or higher than present.
  It is claimed that the current ice loss in the Antarctic is enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 millimetres each year, but much of this rise has already been occurring throughout the last century. As there has been no noticeable change in the rate of sea level rise since 2010, there is no evidence that the new figures claimed for Antarctica represent any significant increase...over a century an extra 9mm of sea level rise. Hardly apocalyptic!!'
  
  Posted 4:32 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, ice, new study, sea levels
  
• Media hypes Antarctic melting — But at the ‘rate of loss, it would take 169,811 years to lose all the 27 million cubic kilometers of Antarctic ice.’ 'The loss of 0.159 159 cubic kilometers of ice per year is apparently headline worthy, because at that rate of loss, it would take 169,811 years to lose all the 27 million cubic kilometers of Antarctic ice.'
  From Geophysical Research Letters and the University of Leeds: 'Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year — twice as much as when it was last surveyed. See below for some sanity check calculations on why 159 billion tonnes really isn’t much more than a flyspeck in the scheme of things.'
  
  Posted 1:35 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, ice, new study, sea levels
  
• Antarctic Sea-Ice Coverage Continues Breaking Records: ‘Hits 3.5 million square miles in April— the largest on record’
  Posted May 20, 201411:12 AM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, blizzard, global cooling, ice
  
• Sea Ice Update May 17 2014 – Antarctic 69th Daily Record of 2014 – Global Sea Ice 610,000 sq km Above Normal
  Posted May 18, 20149:36 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, arctic, global cooling, ice
  
• AGW: more Wind & Rubbish: ‘By far the biggest piece of rubbish from the alarmist camp has been the release of a new paper about Antarctic winds’ 'This paper is co-authored by Matthew England. England has written other papers on wind. His past papers describe how winds have driven the missing heat to the ocean bottomwhich explains the temperature hiatus. The absurdity of that proposition is critiqued here.'
  
  Posted May 17, 20148:56 AM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, asttology, ice, new study, sea levels
  
• Wacky Warmism Rebutted: Claim: DC under water? Not ‘if,’ but ‘when’ Due To Melting Antarctic Claims - Climate Depot rebuts study claiming ‘Unstoppable’ Antarctica melting & Sea Level Rise: ‘When current reality fails to alarm, they make a bunch of scary predictions’
  
  Posted May 16, 201411:12 AM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarctica, astrology, media, sea levels
  
• Watch Now: Morano on Fox News rebuts study claiming ‘Unstoppable’ Antarctica melting & Sea Level Rise: ‘When current reality fails to alarm, they make a bunch of scary predictions’
  

• Update: Warmist turned skeptic, Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, rips ‘pseudo-science in climate research’ & intimidation – ‘I find it difficult to believe that the prominent Jewish scientists in the GWPF council appreciate being labeled deniers’
  
• Chatting With ‘A Climate Heretic’: Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry reverses belief in AGW – Climategate ‘triggered a massive re-examination of my support of the IPCC, and made me look at the science much more skeptically’
• UN IPCC Lead Author Dr. Richard Tol admits no global warming for 17 years – Rips bias in IPCC – UN’s ‘inbuilt alarmism made me step down’ – ‘By the time the report was finished, however, it hadn’t warmed for 17 years’
• ‘Grossly flawed’: Team of Skeptical Scientists Debunk White House Global Warming Report – ‘Provides no scientific basis whatsoever for regulating CO2 emissions’
• UK Daily Mail: ‘Revealed: How green zealots gagged professor who dared to question global warming’
• Watch Now: Hostile 8 min. Climate Debate Between Morano & TV Anchor on CCTV: Morano: ‘You used the word ‘facts’ earlier, I hope you are not using that now. Every bad weather event is now proof of global warming?’

Der Spiegel: ‘Are Climate Scientists Being Forced to Toe the Line?’: ‘Global warming is taken as dogma. Anyone who doubts it is bad’

• New Research Confirms Human CO2 Not Causing A Global Drought Increase
  
  
• Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry on Lennart Bengtsson situation: ‘Can climate scientists please stop the intimidation, bullying, shunning and character assassination of other scientists who they find ‘not helpful’ to their cause?’
• ‘Sorry, Jerry Brown, Global Warming Is Reducing Wildfires’
• Climate alarmists make major blunder in reporting Antarctica ice loss results: ‘Total ice loss from latest study is ‘consistent’ with, not ‘double’ prior study measurements’ The authors of this latest Antarctica ice loss study estimate that the rate of global sea level rise contributed by their measured Antarctica ice loss results is about 0.45 mm per year which is about the thickness of a human fingernail.
  The ice loss reported in this study for the massive Eastern Antarctica region which contains about 90 percent of the total Antarctica ice mass represents less than 2 percent of the total ice loss reported (-3 +/- 36 Gt. per year) with the uncertainty band being ten times greater than the nominal ice loss value reported.
  The climate alarmist reporters misunderstood the total Antarctica ice loss picture from this latest study and provided incorrect information in their articles. They appear to have confused this latest studies reported sea level rise contribution estimate of 0.45 mm per year which is about “double” prior study estimates of 0.19 mm per year as being applied to ice loss values which is incorrect.
  

• Geochemist: Chilling the melting Antarctic hysteria – ‘Thawing of glaciers is historically followed by refreezing’ 'Erosion of Antarctica’s glaciers has proceeded unabated since the end of the last ice age and continued slowly through the past century to the present day. Passage of time, even millennia, would be required before enough ice melted to raise sea levels by the 12 to 13 feet mentioned in recent news accounts, assuming the rate of about 7 inches per century remains constant...Statements suggesting man-made carbon dioxide somehow triggers high-velocity circumpolar winds over the Southern Ocean is speculative for a region already notorious for high winds and treacherous seas.
  
• Graph Debunks Drought Claims: Fraction of the Globe in Drought: 1982-2012 – Published in new Nature publication called Scientific Data
• Coulter Defends Pat Sajak: Dems Equate Climate Denial with Holocaust Denial
• NYT claims ‘that the melting of glaciers is accelerating’ – Reality Check: ‘Most of the retreat since 1941 actually took place by 1951′
• Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore: ‘ENVIRONMENTALISM HAS BECOME A RELIGION’ 'The so-called climate-change movement is extremely successful because it means that people are scared and feel bad and guilty and believe they should give money – to the Church of Greenpeace'
  
• Scientist counters media hype on Antarctic ice sheet ‘collapse: ‘It has been in progress for several thousand years, and is neither new nor man-caused’ Physicist Dr. Tom Sheahen: A hot-topic in the media these days has to do with the West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS), a region comprising about 8% of the ice covering Antarctica. Within that region, there are two glaciers that are sliding down to the sea at a steady pace, as glaciers always do. They comprise about 10% of the WAIS, less than 1% of Antarctic ice. This descent has been in progress for several thousand years, and is neither new nor man-caused. It will go on for a few thousand more, after which they’ll be gone.'
  
• Watch Now: Potential GOP Presidential Candidate Marco Rubio on global warming: Rubios 3 Key Science Points: 1)'How much is [the climate] changing, and how much of it is directly attributable to human carbon emissions? There’s no consensus on that.'
  2) 'Despite 17 years of dramatic increases in carbon production by humans, surface temperatures on the Earth have stabilized.'
  3) 'None of these proposals that liberals want us to impose on ourselves would do anything about the problem.'
  Rubio: 'For people to go out and say: 'If you pas this bill that I am proposing, this will will somehow lead us to have less tornadoes and hurricanes.' That is just not an accurate statement. And that is what I take issue with.'
  Flashback: Dem Sen. Boxer blames tornadoes on global warming — Plugs her carbon tax bill to fix bad weather: ‘This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather…We need to protect our people’ – ‘Carbon could cost us the planet’
  
• Union of Concerned Scientists score media coup: Watch NBC affiliates do press release work on how climate change threatens national landmarks Climate change and the threats to national landmarks on NBC WRC News4 at 4
  
• Media hypes Antarctic melting — But at the ‘rate of loss, it would take 169,811 years to lose all the 27 million cubic kilometers of Antarctic ice.’ 'The loss of 0.159 159 cubic kilometers of ice per year is apparently headline worthy, because at that rate of loss, it would take 169,811 years to lose all the 27 million cubic kilometers of Antarctic ice.'
  From Geophysical Research Letters and the University of Leeds: 'Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year — twice as much as when it was last surveyed. See below for some sanity check calculations on why 159 billion tonnes really isn’t much more than a flyspeck in the scheme of things.'
  
• New study finds sea levels rising only 7 in. per century – with no acceleration 'This newest analysis of the most comprehensive data set available suggests that there has been no dramatic increase – or any increase, for that matter – in the mean rate of global sea level rise due to the historical increase in the atmosphere’s CO2 concentration.[Therefore, there is no evidence of any human influence on sea levels]'
  
• A climate benefit has been discovered in melting ice sheets – ‘Study shows iron from melting ice sheets may help buffer global warming’ A UK team has discovered that summer meltwaters from ice sheets are rich in iron, which will have important implications on phytoplankton growth. The findings are reported in the journal Nature Communications on May 21, 2014.
  

• The new 97% consensus! Gallup Poll: 97% Of Americans Agree: Environment Is The Least Of Their Concern
  
• New Study: Public Interest In Global Warming Melting Away – ‘Fallen sharply in the past few years’
• NBC News: Greens envision a day when suicide will not be seen ‘as a stigma of cowardice, or a failure of character, but as altruism in the last ethical act left us’ In the category of “recovering depressed environmentalist,” Bell says he and others like him did have their views shaken by a recent essay titled “The Irreconcilable Acceptance of Near-Term Extinction” by Daniel Drumright of Portland, Oregon.
  Drumright, who did not want to be interviewed for this story, envisions a day when those left in a collapsing civilization will see “suicide, not as a stigma of cowardice, or a failure of character, but as altruism in the last ethical act left us.”
  

• US Congress Prohibits Pentagon From Funding Climate Programs – ‘Bill aims to block the DOD from taking any significant action related to climate change or its potential consequences’
• Only 3% of Americans name ‘environment’ as top issue. Where is media balance?
• Obama: ‘I know it’s hard to talk about global warming here in Chicago after this winter’ Obama explained that he was committed to addressing climate, but Republicans continued to “deny the science.” “And I know it's hard to talk about global warming here in Chicago after this winter,” he joked. “But everybody here understands that it's changing weather patterns that are at stake here, with potentially devastating, catastrophic consequences.”
  
• Obama admin ADMITS EPA rules shutting down coal plants to RAISE electricity prices by 4% this year and another 13% by 2020 'Already, the current rules are expected to force power companies to shut down 68 coal plants across 20 states between 2014 and 2017, according to Bentek Energy, a market analysis firm.
  The Energy Department estimates coal plants with the output to supply 33 million homes will close by 2020.
  As Indiana has reduced its reliance on coal to 84 percent from 97 percent over the last decade, its power prices rose far faster than those of its neighbors and the rest of the country.'
  
• Politico: Red State, Blue State, Hot State, Cold State: ‘States facing most warming tend to vote for Dems, while states facing least tend to vote Republican’
• Survey: Climate Change Now More Divisive Than Abortion, Gun Control & Death Penalty 'New research from Lawrence Hamilton of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire shows that there is a larger gap between liberals and conservatives on climate change than abortion, gun control, the death penalty and evolution.'
  
• Warmists fret: CNN’s Climate Change Coverage: Starring Ann Coulter
• Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please don’t buy our electric car – ‘Every time I sell one it costs me $14,000′ 'The 500e was created to meet mandates of states such as California that require automakers to offer zero-emissions cars for sale. For the moment, electric cars are the easiest way to meet the mandate -- and automakers approach the challenge with varying amounts of enthusiasm. Stock market wonder Tesla Motors, for instance, sells only fully electric cars.'
  
• Joe Romm: Climate ‘Disinformers’ Now Holocaust Deniers
• ‘The Slow, Sure Death of ‘Climate Change’ Lies’
• ‘Does The EPA’s CO2 Endangerment Finding Violate Federal Law?’
• Analysis: ‘Claim 97% of Climate Scientists Believe In Global Warming is TOTALLY BOGUS!’

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A team of scientists fact checked President Obama on global warming.

'The National Climate Assessment - 2014 (NCA) is a masterpiece of marketing that shows for the first time the full capabilities of the Obama Administration to spin a scientific topic as they see fit, without regard to the underlying facts.'

Share the full rebuttal at scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/224538945/NCA-Rebuttal more at http://www.climatedepot.com/.

'As independent scientists, we know that apparent evidence of “Climate Change,” however scary, is not proof of anything. Science derives its objectivity from robust logic and honest evidence repeatedly tested by all knowledgeable scientists, not just those paid to support the administration’s version of “Global Warming,” “Climate Change,” “Climate Disruption,” or whatever their marketing specialists call it today.'

'Bottom-Line: This NCA is so grossly flawed it should play no role in U.S. Energy Policy Analyses and CO2 regulatory processes. As this rebuttal makes clear, the NCA provides no scientific basis whatsoever for regulating CO2 emissions.'

How long can the facts be ignored?

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Revealed: How green zealots gagged professor who dared to question global warming.

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'Ground-breaking climate research that was controversially ‘covered up’ suggests the rate that greenhouse gases are heating the Earth has been significantly exaggerated.'

'In a recent key report, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated the ‘climate sensitivity’ – the amount the world will warm each time carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere double – was between 1.5C and 4.5C.

According to Prof Bengtsson’s paper, it is more likely to be 1.2C to 2.7C. The implications of the difference are huge. If the planet is warming half as fast as previously thought in response to emissions, many assumptions behind targets for reducing emissions and green energy subsidies are wrong.'

If a leading climate scientist's research shows the computer models behind the entire global warming scare to be wrong, does that not merit publication in a scientific journal?

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'There is a whiff of desperation in the air, and the over-hyping of these latest papers signals not the imminent decline of Antarctica’s glaciers but the irreversible collapse of climate alarmism. This latest climate change scare is a prime example of science speak sending the overly excitable media into an ignorance driven frenzy.'

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Why the big Antarctic propaganda push and scare assessment? Air cover. EPA is getting ready to hobble America's electricity supply next month with new regulations aimed against existing coal plants. The UN is getting ready to bring the U.S. into its first global warming treaty next year in Paris. The goal is to lock in everything the warming Left wants NOW -- While Obama is still in office.

How much damage can be done in the next 32 months?