Change is what the climate does

The last three alone are enough to refute the lack of influence of the Sun on contemporary climate. Solar scientists seem to be in conflict with alarmist climate scientists. This does not appear like settled science to the observing public.

Phil laments that Friends of Science deny that the globe is warming with temperatures spiking upwards. Perhaps that is because Mother Nature stopped raising the Global Mean Temperature (GMT) over 15+ years ago. Surely Phil is aware of this.

Next Phil can’t believe that Friends of Science deny that CO2 is the main driver of climate change. It is difficult to believe that Phil believes a colorless, trace gas essential to life on Earth can pose a problem for humans. It is difficult to demonize a gas that fertilises the flora and in increasing quantities is greening the planet.

CO2, a trace gas essential to life on Earth, is plant food. We exhale CO2 and help to feed the flora. In return they slip us oxygen of which we are rather fond in a mutually beneficial and amicable symbiotic relationship. From this evil comes?

Bonus: plants grow better, stronger, faster because of the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

In concluding, the U.S. research team declares that "from this remarkable 30-year archive of satellite imagery, we thus see evidence of a greening trend," which clearly indicates that the net result of the climatic and physiological effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on Earth's terrestrial plant life has in the mean been decidedly beneficial.

Apart from that CO2 has no redeeming features

We need to stop all activities aimed at decreasing human emissions of CO2.

CO2 is green. We need more of it not less. CO2 has been exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it. Let the plants dance.

Phil has fallen prey to the misinformation about the danger of the life giving gas CO2.

Next Phil expresses his fear of sea level rise(SLR) and ridicules Friends of Science for their lack of concern about SLR. It is the same lack of concern expressed by those who continue to pay the increasing prices of seaside property and those who continue to invest in hotels, resorts and airports in low lying islands. Are these people nuts? I got an idea. Let’s invest millions in properties that are going to be submerged by an oceanic uprising. Shouldn’t prices of coastal property be going down as people wake-up to the dangers of climate change? Maybe SLR isn’t that big a concern. Recently, the seas have been forgetting to rise alarmingly. Sea levels have been higher in the past long before humans started to burn fossil fuels for energy.

Phil then chides Friends of Science for promoting Christopher Monckton as if truth is determined by who speaks it rather than by an appeal to Mother Nature. If temps are not rising does it matter who points it out?

Next, Phil refers to a Sourcewatch entry for Friends of Science which explores the origin of funding for the non-profit organization. Does Mother Nature care who funds a video or study? Either the study uncovers something about how she operates or it doesn’t. Either the video reflects reality or it doesn’t. We must compare the content with what Mother Nature is doing in order to render a proper verdict.

Similarly, Phil tries to question the integrity and reputation of the organization by mentioning the corporate owner of the billboard on which the message was displayed. Does Mother Nature care about such things? Either the sun is the primary driver of climate change or it is not.

The studies above support the contention of the message promoted by Friends of Science. Scientists believed it in 1998.

Temperature and Solar Irradiance Correlation

The data appears to support it.

Perhaps Phil would like to educate us as to why the current set of Global Climate Models (GCMs) do not track what Mother Nature has been doing for the last 17+ years. Theory says: CO2 up, temps up. Mother Nature didn’t get the memo. CO2 up; temps in stasis for 17+ years.

We hate it when that happens but when it does science says: modify or abandon the theory because as it stands it is wrong.

A friend of science would recognize that. Is Phil a scientist or a delusional activist?

Gore: ‘History will not be kind’ to climate ‘deniers’

'I don’t pretend to know what the basis of [Aussie Prime Minister Tony Abbott's] thinking is, but Mother Nature has a louder voice,' he said, referring to increasing incidences of severe weather.

This is strange because instances of severe weather are not increasing. Is Al from our planet?

Al is hearing the Antarctic sea ice expand to capture unwary explorers who need rescue. He is hearing the flatline of temperature stasis. He hears people celebrating the relative quiet of the tornado and hurricane seasons of recent years. He hears the anemic power of CO2 to affect the climate in a negative manner. He hears the grass grow as CO2 fertilizes our flora. And he mistakes all this auditory stimulation for a crisis. For him the loud voice in his head may be a crisis but for the rest of us Mother Nature is not doing anything outside the bounds of natural variability. In other words, we have seen it all before.

The loud voice that Al is hearing is not that of Mother Nature. It is a creation of his own delusion about what is happening with the climate. Delusion: a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.

Mother Nature is reassuring and informing people that:

There is no hot spot despite the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Here is another paper that reaches the same conclusion. They keep piling up. Is it hiding?
World temperatures have been flat for at least the last 16 years despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Consensus is lacking.
Extreme weather is not getting worse despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Sandy was not due to AGW.
Sea level rise (SLR) is not accelerating despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
Water vapor is not increasing in the atmosphere despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
US has been cooling for the last 15 years despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Kinda takes the GLOBAL outta GLOBAL warming don’t it?
Himalayan glaciers expanding contrary to prediction and despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
The melting Arctic? Greenland is gaining ice mass. We have heard it all before. We are still here and still waiting for the disastrous rise in sea levels despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
Antarctica is gaining ice mass. Antarctica is cooling despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
As the world warms LWIR increases at the top of the atmosphere. It is supposed to be trapped by increased CO2.
IPCC Global Climate Models (GCMs) can’t predict squat despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Some warmists are beginning to recognize this. Here is the latest.

Bonus: plants grow better, stronger, faster because of the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The only voice that counts in science is that of Mother Nature and she is saying loud and clear that CO2 does not have much if anything to do with climate change. After all, if you have extreme weather in times of lower CO2 concentration and bad storms in times of higher CO2 atmospheric concentration then isn't the correct conclusion that CO2 has nought to do with it?

People are learning that CO2 has nothing to do with the temperature or the climate.

The evidence mounts as a new study shows that tropical storms have decreased in frequency since 1872. Weather was more variable and extreme in the past.

Did you realize that deaths due to severe weather trauma are way down because of our early warning systems? Isn’t that great?

If we are a warming world then why was snow cover at a record level in December 2012? As the world warms are we not supposed to see less snow and more rain in the winter? Why are 2012 winter temperatures so cold in a warming world?

And the polar bears? They are thriving.

People are catching on and more and more scientists are speaking out or recanting on previously accepted CAGW beliefs.

To the chagrin of climate change alarmists like Al Gore, Mother Nature is an AGW denier.

Is Al making his own recordings and playing them to put himself to sleep at night? Is that the ‘stronger voice’ in his mind? Al seems to have lost touch with reality. He has written the script he would like Mother Nature to be shouting from the rooftops but Mother Nature does not care what Al thinks. She will do what she does and it is up to us to figure out the rules by which she operates. Currently, she is suggesting that we go back to the drawing board and come up with a new theory because the one that Al champions is wrong. Will Al ever admit that?

History will not be kind to alarmists blinded by their own motives.