JoNova’s post “the big-freeze: thousands trapped in europe as death toll rises to 600”, is an excellent article to provoke serious thought about the validity of the AGW “science”.
Remember we were told by the IPCC that the average global temperature would rise in step with atmospheric CO2 and create life-threatening earth changes.
Well, the CO2 levels continue to rise steadily, we have some increased temperature trends and we have some decreasing trends. We have extreme cold as related here. What we do not have is the “promised” destructive relationship. We certainly do not have anything remotely resembling a hockey stick relationship.
They can make-up whatever reasons they want, call global warming “climate-change” because there is no warming, make fake documents to try to destroy authentic organizations, continue to deceive themselves in so many ways, including denying the obvious email proofs of unsupportable science – but they are not going to fool all the people all the time, nor all the people some of the time.
They will need to be content to fool some of the people some of the time and perhaps some of the people all the time but that is not enough to sustain their credibility. The truth will eventually over-ride the vested interests and even the media who will gradually become aware that they are being used and who will look like fools if they don’t wake up to scientific reality.
Back to Jo’s post:
And who wants Global Warming when you can face avalanches, deep snow, and record cold?
How much fun can you have with 2 meters of snow on your house, and none of that evil coal powered electricity?
What’s happening in Europe and Russia over the last two weeks is not just your average cold-snap. Temperatures reached -28C in Moscow. One point in Russia hit -52.8C (-68F) on Monday.
MOSCOW — Some 215 Russians have died this year in a prolonged period of abnormally cold winter weather, the health ministry said Monday as the overall death toll for Europe rose to well over 600. [
National Post]
NASA Earth Observatory. Dark blue areas are -15C below average. White areas are average. Deep Red are 15C above. (See the NASA link below for the proper scale):.
The Danube has frozen over from Austria to the Black Sea, and 224 ships (some delivering fuel) have been stuck in their ports. Schools in Bosnia have been closed for days. Trains in Montenegroare at a standstill, and one train with 50 passengers was stranded in a tunnel for three days before rescuers began evacuating people yesterday.
In Serbia 11,000 villagers are trapped by huge snowfalls as temperatures hit – 26C in one town (Al jazeera puts the figure at 70,000 people), and some Bosnian villages haven’t had electricity for days.
Hundreds of barns are collapsing under the snow, killing the animals below, and prompting Tom Nelson to write “Children won’t know what barns look like”.
For the first time in over 30 years, snow has fallen in the Sahara Desert.
Alan Caruba found a Turkish writer lamenting the waste and misdirection of millions of dollars spent on the Green global warming bureaucracy instead of preparations to save lives.
Please read the whole post here.
I would love to see a credible scientist, one who is really unbiassed, present a scientific paper on “the assessment of ‘average global temperature'”. At the moment, each ‘side’ presents their figures supporting their arguments and there is sufficient conflict to suggest that the degree of certainty is less than scientifically verifiable.
Using a large number of geographical locations, many of them questioned for their siting errors or bias, subject to “cherry picking”, varying in numbers for some reason, to assess near surface land temperatures is questionable.
Sea surface measurements involve the same questions.
Atmospheric temperatures at altitude or satellite measurements of surface temps all have useful parameters.
I have repeatedly said that when actual temperatures vary daily, or nightly, or at different sea depths, between equatorial and polar regions, seasonally, by amounts exceeding the anamoly measurements by factors of at least 500 times, (-50degC to +50degC, ie 100DegC variations, looking for a trend or meaningful change of 0.2degC per year), the scientists are operating in the realm of fantasy.
I wonder how many would agree with this if they were not dependent on this science for a living?
They cannot even agree on what is a real measure of GT, probably because there is no such meaningful figure!
Earth’s heat content and that of the oceans (probably the most relevant), are meaningful; sea surface temp.; land near-surface temp (the least useful IMHO); atmospheric temps (but at which altitude?), all contribute data.
Numerous variables, large and small, measurable and immeasurable. And we are subjected to tyranny on this basis. No thank you!
