{"id":8916,"date":"2013-08-21T12:29:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2013-08-23T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T19:39:33","slug":"climate-data-points-to-global-cooling-trend-not-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/climate-data-points-to-global-cooling-trend-not-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Data Points to Global Cooling Trend, Not Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Global by Craig A. Evans –
\nSo-called global-warming alarmists are in a frenzy after the latest climate data confirmed the Earth actually appears to be entering a potential cooling trend, sea-ice cover in Antarctica is growing to record levels, tornadoes and hurricanes are at record lows, and more. According to experts, the most recent revelations continue to make a mockery of alarmist claims \u2014 debunking United Nations theories about human-caused global warming and the wildly inaccurate supposed \u201cclimate models\u201d used to forecast doom and gloom by forces seeking carbon taxes and more centralized government.<\/p>\n

Proponents of what is known as \u201canthropogenic global warming\u201d theories, which claim that human activity is to blame for alleged warming, have long warned that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would lead to \u201ccatastrophic\u201d warming. The problem is that even based on data gathered by the planet\u2019s premier climate alarmists \u2014 the U.K. Met Office, for example, or various U.S. agencies \u2014 shows that global warming stopped more than a decade and a half ago, as The New American reported last year. Now, a leaked version of the upcoming UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlighted in the media suggests that the global body\u2019s \u201cclimate scientists\u201d are struggling hard to publicly explain the lack of warming they predicted with such confidence. Among the possible explanations offered by the UN\u2019s supposed experts: \u201cash from volcanoes,\u201d a \u201cdecline in heat from the sun,\u201d or more heat being \u201cabsorbed by the deep oceans,\u201d according to news reports.<\/p>\n

global warming stopped more than a decade and a half ago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Apparently, however, the draft UN report, set to be released over the next year, does allow for the possibility that the climate is not as \u201csensitive\u201d to CO2\u00a0as the alarmists and their now-debunked models expected. Still, a spokesperson for the IPCC quoted in the government-funded BBC \u2014 long criticized for pushing the climate \u201choax\u201d despite real evidence \u2014\u00a0warned\u00a0the public not to pay attention to the leaked draft because “it is guaranteed it will change” before being officially released. Scientists and experts who have worked on the UN body have\u00a0<\/a>told<\/a>\u00a0The New American<\/em>\u00a0over a period of\u00a0years\u00a0<\/a>that the IPCC is only interested in pushing climate hysteria, regardless of what the facts show.<\/p>\n

Of course, CO2, a natural gas exhaled by humans and fundamental to life on earth, has long been vilified by UN climate alarmists as a \u201cpollutant.\u201d Despite the well-known fact human emissions of the gas make up just a fraction of one percent of the greenhouse gasses present naturally in the atmosphere, supporters of man-made global-warming theories insist that humanity must, under UN guidance, destroy the economy to reduce emissions and stave off alleged disaster.<\/p>\n

increased levels of CO2\u00a0has not led to the \u201cexpected\u201d warming<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

However, with the latest data suggesting that increased levels of CO2\u00a0has not led to the \u201cexpected\u201d warming, experts say it is time for the UN and its cohorts to re-think their controversial theories. Even the mainstream press in some countries \u2014 longtime bastions of climate alarmism \u2014 has finally started to report on the potential for global cooling. Denmark\u2019s Jyllands-Posten, for example, ran an\u00a0explosive article<\/a>\u00a0on August 7 about the lack of warming over the last 15 years featuring experts who suggested the earth may actually be entering another \u201clittle ice age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reminding readers that the most recent ice age ended just over a century ago, the article was headlined \u201cThe behavior of the sun may trigger a new little ice age.\u201d Among other experts, the piece quoted Irish solar specialist Ian Elliott, who warned that \u201cwe may be on the path to a new little ice age,\u201d very low solar activity, and \u201csome very cold winters.\u201d Danish astrophysicist Henrik Svensmark, meanwhile, explained that from the 1940s to about the turn of the century, \u201cwe have had the highest solar activity in 1000 years.\u201d The last time the sun was so active, Svensmark added, was during the Medieval Warm Period, which climate alarmists consistently downplay or ignore because it does not fit with their \u201ctheories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could mean that the temperature will not rise for the next 30 years or maybe begin to decrease,\u201d the expert continued, adding that “many of the climate models used by IPCC and others overestimate the influence of CO2\u00a0and underestimate the influence of the sun.\u201d As far as the upcoming IPCC report goes, Svensmark said the UN body \u201cis very one-sided,\u201d so he does not believe there will be \u201canything reasonable in the next report.\u201d The prominent Danish astrophysicist concludes by noting that despite claims about the ocean absorbing the supposed global warming, \u201cseveral thousand buoys put into the sea to measure temperature haven\u2019t registered any rise in sea temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOAA (2012): last year was among the coldest so far this century<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Earlier this month, meanwhile, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its \u201cState of the Climate in 2012\u201d showing that last year was among the coldest so far this century. According to analysts, despite the government agency\u2019s wildly misleading attempts to spin the findings and drum up unwarranted hysteria, the data actually\u00a0confirm<\/a>\u00a0that the globe has stopped warming for the last 15 years. The report also exposes the bogus \u201cclimate models\u201d that predicted major warming based on increasing CO2\u00a0levels as wrong, which credible scientists have been arguing all along.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stagnation of the last 15 years defies all computer model projections, thus confirming that the models all exaggerated CO2 climate sensitivity,\u201d\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0prominent climate skeptic Pierre Gosselin, who was educated in mechanical engineering but now spends time ripping apart climate hysteria. \u201cIn order for the models to be correct, the global temperature over the last 6 years would have to be 0.2 to 0.3\u00b0F warmer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite those inconvenient and embarrassing truths, Gosselin suspects that NOAA and other U.S. agencies like NASA will soon start trying to \u201creadjust\u201d the data to make it say what they need. \u201cSuch dubious (and perhaps criminal) manipulation of data has long since become NASA\u2019s \u2018scientific\u2019 approach over the recent years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt kind of reminds us of the days when Stalin tried to change history by cutting and pasting photos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already, in an apparent effort to save face \u2014 and perhaps huge amounts of taxpayer funding \u2014 NOAA was caught using cherry-picked \u201cscattered weather anecdotes\u201d as \u201cevidence\u201d that the globe is warming. \u201cIf you think scientists just couldn\u2019t get any more incompetent, then think again,\u201d Gosselin continued in his report demolishing the government\u2019s bogus claims. \u201cNOAA scientists even appear to believe that cold events are now signs of warming. It includes expanding Antarctic sea ice as evidence the globe is warming.\u201d Indeed, NOAA cited record high levels of sea-ice cover in Antarctica in its report.<\/p>\n

the IPCC is only interested in pushing climate hysteria, regardless of what the facts show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As if all of that was not embarrassing enough, fear-mongering climate alarmists like President Obama have been threatening Americans and humanity with increased hurricanes and tornadoes due to \u201cglobal warming.\u201d Between calls for more power and money, UN bosses have also been shrieking about the alleged \u201cextreme\u201d weather supposedly caused by human emissions of CO2. Recent data, however, has left AGW proponents with egg on their faces once again.<\/p>\n

According to the latest records on tornadoes in the United States, the nation is currently in the midst of what one prominent analystreferred<\/a>\u00a0to as a \u201ctornado drought,\u201d setting a new record for the last 60 years. For hurricanes, which alarmists have also claimed would increase in frequency and severity, the situation is similar. Analysts\u00a0say<\/a>\u00a0Obama\u2019s term in office has seen the lowest number of hurricanes making landfall of any U.S. president. It has been eight years since a major one struck the United States.<\/p>\n

While the facts and data continue to make a mockery of UN theories and tax-funded climate alarmism, that does not mean that officials plan to stop the fear mongering anytime soon. Indeed, the Obama administration and its front groups such as \u201cOrganizing for Action\u201d are hyping the discredited hysteria to unprecedented heights, engaging in what amounts to an attempted witch-hunt against so-called \u201cclimate deniers.\u201d<\/p>\n

It appears to analysts and serious scientists as though, after squandering billions in taxpayer money and putting its credibility on the line pushing the \u201cclimate scam,\u201d the establishment is not yet ready to abandon its largely discredited theories. Once humanity realizes that the justifications for higher taxes, more regulations, increased government power, and the erosion of liberty and national sovereignty around the world are crumbling, it will be much harder to push similar efforts in the future.<\/p>\n

HT: The New American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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