Sunday, October 31, 2010

Greenland Meltdown : Windchill -108F | Real Science
Isn’t Barbara Boxer about due for a fact finding trip?
Global Warming Hysteria: How to Lose Public Support in Just Four Short Years » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog
What I find remarkable is that this collapse in public support took place despite the fact that the pro global warming side utterly dominated the institutions that generally control the discourse: The international community; the United Nations (which has really stepped in a PR bucket); President Obama; The Democratic Party. The Mainstream Media; The Science Establishment; A-List Hollywood; Big Time Rock and Roll; and last but not least, Prince Charles (ha!). And yet, the cause is deflating like a tire with a nail.

Why the slide over the last 4 years? I believe it was a combination of factors: First, and foremost, we saw hysterical study after hysterical story, telling us that global warming meant we have to give up meat, pets, children, flying, driving, and virtually everything else that makes life worth living. After awhile, each new study/story didn’t alarm, but rather, caused eyes to roll.
Might Arctic Warming Lead to Catastrophic Methane Releases? | Watts Up With That?
Recent measurements show that CH4 growth rates have declined and were negative for several years in the early 21st century … The observed rate of increase of 0.8 ppb yr–1 for the period 1999 to 2004 is considerably less than the rate of 6 ppb yr–1 assumed in all the [IPCC] SRES scenarios for the period 1990 to 2000.”
The Arctic Cooling Which Must Not Be Spoken | Real Science
GISS Arctic cooling from 1937 to 1975. We are told this never happened.

Newsweek made the whole thing up. Really.

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