CO2 has nothing to do with it

Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere via the burning of fossil fuels is supposed to lead to increasing temperatures on earth which will make snow a thing of the past, cause more extreme weather and turn the earth into an inferno if we humans don't reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Some say we must reduce the atmospheric concentration of CO2 to below 350ppm or we are doomed.

But what if CO2 has nothing to do with climate change?

Small impact of CO2 over last hundred years

CO2  not Earth's thermostat

Is CO2 destroying Christmas?

CO2 and extreme weather

More CO2 is better? TIC (tongue in cheek)

Low CO2 hurricanes

The State of the Climate 2012

Tornado record (TIC)

News from the past - 1957 - sea level rise to flood NYC - still waiting

Should we return to 1927 levels of CO2 when the climate was more amicable? (TIC)

But what of water vapor - the most important GHG

Increasing CO2 causes reduction in water vapor. We are saved.

MSM scaremongers forget to do research before they open their collective mouths - another example of 'this modern day bad storm is due to increasing CO2 in the atmosphere.'

The glaciers are retreating - CO2 gets blamed for everything

Well, this cinches it.... CO2 more powerful than previously thought.. oh, wait a minute...

CO2 is powerful

Record CO2 growth leads to record warm  cold temperatures

When did the world's worst floods occur?

Trend in intense hurricanes

Atmospheric CO2 in geological perspective

The magic of CO2

Open mouth, insert foot....

What's up with Mars

What's up with Venus

Final word on Venus

Who sucked the CO2 out of BC? Good skiing there this year.

Ad nauseum, ad infinitum

Excellent summary of climate indicators

2012 climate report card.

So which is it? I'm confused.

Snow is a thing of the past because of global warming. This makes sense. If the world warms up then colder areas become warmer and they will get more rain and less snow. So far, so good.

Except that, as CO2 has increased so has Northern Hemisphere snow cover. 

So now we need an explanation that makes sense and agrees with reality. and so we have 'Global warming could cool down temperatures in winter.'

As reality plods along and ignores the prognostications of some climate scientists theories are 'saved' by devising alternative explanations that now correspond to reality.

First, heat-trapping gas increases cause less snow by increasing winter temperatures but if that doesn't correspond to reality then heat trapping gas increases can cause cooler winter temperatures and more snow. Perfect theory. It can't be falsified and we can continue to demonize a harmless trace gas essential to life on earth. Yeah! (jumping up and down).

Only trouble is: the Arctic doesn't appear to be warming. The Summit camp in Greenland is at record cold in 2011. Nuuk on the west coast of Greenland is not warming.

The Arctic has undergone periods of warming and cooling in the past just as other areas of the earth have experienced. Cycles are the norm and increasing CO2 has nothing to do with it.

To paraphrase Aquinas

Ask not who made the claim but ask if it is the truth, said Aquinas.

In the matter of global warming we might want to add:

Ask not who funded the claim but ask if it is the truth.

Keep informed

If you don’t read newspapers then you will probably be uninformed.

If you do read newspapers, then you will probably be misinformed..

Twain

Having fun with predictions

Over at Watts Up With That  we are brought up to date on a prediction made back in 2007.

Apparently, 4.5 billion people were supposed to die by 2012 from AGW.

Unlike the blackbirds in Beebe, Arkansas the last two years people are not lying dead in the streets en masse.

There are still 7 billion of us on the planet.

Another failed CAGW prediction.

Surprised?

Didn't think so.

Oh, oh. Here is another one. This time Arctic sea ice is predicted to disappear by end of summer 2012. (The comments after this one are fun). The summer of 2011 had the shortest melt season on record and sea ice froze at the fastest rate on record in the fall of 2011. Sea ice extent is now at highest level since 2005. Compare JAXA melt season length. But then the Arctic was supposed to be ice free in 2000, 2008 or 2010. The science is settled. There is a consensus. And it was wrong.

After 30 years of unprecedented increases in Co2 concentration in the atmosphere due to human burning of fossil fuels sea ice extent is at the 30 year mean. Shouldn't the attendant warming have melted a lot of the ice? CAGW doesn't seem to be working out for its believers and they are in denial about it.

Any bets that the sea ice is just fine in 2012?? And the poley bears too??

What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?

Having more fun with consensus - Arctic Sea Ice

The sea ice is still there in the summer but that hasn't detracted from the propensity of scientists to weigh in with their august opinions on when we will see an ice free Arctic. Could be any year now....

Maybe even this summer - 2012...

We are glad to see that the science is settled until the next prognostication... can you say Harold Camping?

Google "Arctic to be ice free by" and wade through the 750,000,000 hits (as of Feb 24, 2012) to see if there is a consensus among Ice Free Arctic predictors. Take your time. We'll wait. The first few pages of hits ought to convince you that there is no consensus and that some predictive years have already passed without an ice free Arctic materializing. So, who knows? Well, apparently nobody. Note the 'mays' and 'coulds' included in most of the predictions. The science is not settled and the predictions of the learned might as well be based on a crystal ball at this point in history.

Here is news on the Arctic meltdown throughout the 20th century. We are still waiting for sea levels to rise and flood coastal cities  from all the warming that was going on during the last century.

Scientists do themselves and the public a disservice when they delude themselves into believing they know more than they do. Someday the Arctic may be ice free as it has in the past. We survived. Acuna matata.