Open thread: recent challenges to the credibility of climate science | Climate Etc.

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Aussie Cold And Wet « Musings from the Chiefio

Notice that two coldest ever records set inside 2 weeks… The next couple of weeks might well be interesting to watch.

Climate Lessons: Naive climatology: what chance have the teachers when the Government Science Advisor holds such views?

Naive climatology in high places. Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office for Science, has produced some web pages to elaborate his position (http://www.bis.gov.uk/go-science/climatescience).

Bold Science Says Fewer North Atlantic Hurricances in 2100

After every big winter storm, e.g. like Kyrill, we get here in northern Germany, we always hear the media crow about how it is due to global warming. Now the opposite is claimed. We’re a long way from settled science, aren’t we?

Last October Through March Was The Snowiest On Record In The Northern Hemisphere | Real Science

We are told by climate geniuses that extensive snow cover used to be caused by cold, but now is caused by heat.

CO2 Ordinances Will Cause Apartment Rentals To Triple

That means today a family of four in Berlin pays an affordable $600.00 per month for a modest 100 m² apartment (utilities not included). But in just a few years, that family may have to pay an exhorbitant $1800/month plus the also soon to be much more expensive utilities.

Being unable to afford such exorbitant costs, families and low wage earners will have only one option left: to move under the nearest bridge. Call it human rights – euro style.

And what would all this added burden and misery on society’s most defenseless result in? Answer: a theoretical global temperature drop of a few thousandths of a degree.

The biggest driver in all this madness is Europe’s and Germany’s obsession with the notion that by going radically green, they can somehow gain the global moral (thus authoritive) high ground. Eventually, they think, this will allow them to preach the rest of the world on how to live.