Science NOT Settled

After hearing almost daily for 25 years that the science is settled, the globe is warming and humans are at fault the UN’s biased clearinghouse of information on climate change has been forced to recognize that the warming ceased 15 years ago.

Global warming: "The term implies that the whole globe is warming but the whole globe is not warming at the same rate. It's warming much faster in northern areas," Miller said.

What scientists are trying to figure out is why. Is climate change a natural phenomenon? Or is it a product of burning excess fossil fuels?

You mean the science isn’t settled after all? Can you hear Guber? Well, golllly. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

"Some are saying it's going to be a huge influence, some are saying a little bit, some are saying no. And that's where some of the controversy comes in," Miller said.

Scientists say that is because climate change must be studied over a period of hundreds and even thousands of years.

So, our experts don’t know what they are talking about. We need to study more. It is good to see this admission beginning to emerge into the scientific discourse. It is long overdue as skeptics have been pointing out the flaws in the models for years. Our fretting over CO2 is now in question. We have spent billions on alternative energy for little benefit except for the crony capitalists who feed at the public trough. The arrogance of the IPCC has been a very expensive escapade in the annals of science.

The commonsense reaction to this should be that it is not the climate that needs fixing but the climate models. And some humility from climate scientists might not come amiss. The certainties in which they express themselves have instead been shown by the evidence of nature to be only expressions of how little they know. The prime purpose of the IPCC is not the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, however, but rather keeping the climate-change show on the road.

The climate models forecast much higher temperatures with increasing CO2 concentrations than we have experienced to date. This means the models are wrong. When that happens science says: modify or abandon the theory generating your incorrect predictions.

CO2 has been unable to trap the heat in accordance with model predictions. It is not keeping to the script that the IPCC has mapped out for it. Is it broken? Has it lost its super powers? Is kryptonite in the air sapping its strength? Does it only trap summer heat? Is it only a seasonal worker? Can’ find full time employment? Has it hopped the jet stream to a warmer clime? Is there a hole in our CO2 blanket?

Or has it been miscast as the model ‘star’ when it shouldn’t even be in the cast?  

In any case the models are wrong as they stand. The behaviour of global temperatures over the last decade and a half lend credence to this view which means that Mother Nature herself is a CAGW denier.

Somewhere someone commented that CAGW is when scientists treat common weather as unusual. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and drought are common although unwelcome weather phenomena and have always been around. Extreme weather did not begin with the late 20th century temperature rise. Rising CO2 has not manifest more frequent and/or more severe storms than have occurred in the past. In fact, the records for most severe weather have all been set at levels of CO2 below the current ‘supercharged’ atmospheric range. If CO2 has nefarious superpowers why is this still the case?

The science is not settled and some political opportunists and activist have treid to make use of this confusion to further their own political ends.

Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."

Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

Timothy Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator: “We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

Truth about the real world is irrelevant to these people. Other goals are more important.  Anthropogenic Global Warming, whether true or false, is but a means to an end. By exposing the shortcomings of the climate models and thus the theory behind them skeptics are serving mankind in its quest for truth about the real world and at the same time trying to redirect limited funds toward attainable goals.

Mother Nature is still in control of the climate and it is long past the time that humans acknowledge our powerlessness before her.

” … In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing

with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the

long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”

From the 3rd IPCC report, Section 14.2 “The Climate System”, page 774.

In 2001, the IPCC acknowledged a humility to which they need to return.

Unfortunately, the certainty with which political activists in both the scientific community and in society at large have pursued expensive and unnecessary solutions to the non-problem of climate change has led Obama, in his second term, to adopt regulations that will wreak havoc with the energy sector and cause energy prices to soar. This will be much appreciated by the poor among us. In addition, emitting CO2 in quantities beyond your allotted quota will brand you a criminal in the brave new world of Obama’s implementation of 1984. This must be stopped.

Will the damage done to the State’s of his Democrat colleagues be enough to temper the assault on the living standards of the average American? Americans will need to speak loudly to their representatives to cause a POTUS backlash. For this my breath will not be held.