Sunday, October 14, 2012

Where’s The Anthropogenic Global Warming Signal in the NODC Ocean Heat Content Data (0-700Meters)? | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations
The ocean heat content anomalies of the low-to-mid latitudes of the North Atlantic (0-45N, 80W-20E), Figure 3, would be ideal for proponents of anthropogenic global warming if it wasn’t for the fact that it stopped warming in the early 2000s.
The Reference Frame: HadCRUT4: no warming for 16 years
Relatively to some screaming by climate activists who want some urgent action, 16 years is a very long time.
...So you may estimate that even if there were an underlying trend that would ultimately show up, it could only start to be dangerous or harmful in 80 years – I just quoted an estimate. There's no strict boundary at which things "suddenly start to be dangerous or harmful" so you shouldn't be asking for a more accurate or more justified number.

In 80 years, people will have a better idea whether they want to try to geoengineer the Earth's temperature in one way or another. We're solving a different problem: whether we want to do similar things today. The plateau at the graph shows that plans to speed up such policies to a timeframe shorter than 16 years would be utterly irrational because the climate isn't changing that quickly. The noise, or the weather, is by far the dominant source of the variability at this timescale.
Gore’s green money machine | Watts Up With That?
[Chris Horner] For example, in one of those funny coincidences of life, did you know that Obama appointed the CEO of Al Gore’s own pro-green energy advocacy group, Alliance for Climate Protection, to be his Assistant Secretary of Energy for Renewable Energy?
Twitter / ClimateDepot: Flashback 2009: UN Scientist ...
Flashback 2009: UN Scientist Zorita Declares Climategate colleagues Mann, Jones and Rahmstorf 'should be barred from [the IPCC process]...

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