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ORIGINAL: Kirata


It's here, and more is coming...


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Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles – perhaps as much as 50 per cent. 'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.'

Makes for interesting reading, and raises further questions about the anthropogenic global warming hysteria.

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According to Prof Gray, these distort the way the atmosphere works. ‘Most of the rise in temperature from the Seventies to the Nineties was natural,’ he said. ‘Very little was down to CO2 – in my view, as little as five to ten per cent.’

At the very least, anyone who calls the situation "settled science" is either ignorant or lying.

K.

"Climate variations and change, caused by external forcings, may be partly predictable, particularly on the larger, continental and global, spatial scales. Because human activities, such as the emission of greenhouse gases or land-use change, do result in external forcing, it is believed that the large-scale aspects of human-induced climate change are also partly predictable ... In practice, therefore, one has to rely on carefully constructed scenarios of human behaviour and determine climate projections on the basis of such scenarios."

and

"It is necessary to make assumptions about how the emissions or concentrations of the other gasses may change in the future. In addition, it is necessary to have a base scenario against which the effect of the different stabilization pathways may be assessed. The state of science at present is such that it is only possible to give illustrative examples of possible outcomes."

and, most importantly,

"In sum, a strategy must recognize what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long term prediction of future climate states is not possible."
(emphasis mine)

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Manatees and iguanas and citrus trees are dying in Florida, this is no laughing matter. There is potential here for a real crisis. Much as it would be nice to say I told ya so, and we did, we knew it all along, its still no fun to be this freakin' right.

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William Gray, emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, said that while he believed there had been some background rise caused by greenhouse gases, the computer models used by advocates of man-made warming had hugely exaggerated their effect.

According to Prof Gray, these distort the way the atmosphere works. ‘Most of the rise in temperature from the Seventies to the Nineties was natural,’ he said. ‘Very little was down to CO2 – in my view, as little as five to ten per cent.’

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ORIGINAL: DomImus

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William Gray, emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, said that while he believed there had been some background rise caused by greenhouse gases, the computer models used by advocates of man-made warming had hugely exaggerated their effect.

According to Prof Gray, these distort the way the atmosphere works. ‘Most of the rise in temperature from the Seventies to the Nineties was natural,’ he said. ‘Very little was down to CO2 – in my view, as little as five to ten per cent.’

This is a story I read the other day about a study done that suggests that carbon dioxide levels have not changed dramatically in decades or longer. 

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ORIGINAL: submittous

When posting about science how about using peer reviewed science journals...