No Global Warming for 18 Years
October 6, 2014
H. STERLING BURNETT
Climate Change Weekly #141
According to Professor John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama/Huntsville, October 1 marked the 18th anniversary of no warming as measured by Earth’s climate satellite system. Despite a continued and marked rise in emissions and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, Earth’s temperature has plateaued for the past 18 years.
Christy told CNS News, “That’s basically a fact. There’s not much to comment on.”
Christy and former NASA scientist Roy Spencer compiled raw temperature data collected from 14 instruments aboard various weather satellites. The data show no warming. While all of the climate models used by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted steeply rising temperatures over the past two decades, the data show they were wrong.
The gap between the data and the model projections shows scientists have a very limited understanding of the complexity of the climate system and the factors that affect climate changes. And because the model projections were all wrong in one direction – all projecting ongoing, increasing warming – the assumptions were biased toward predicting warming.
Christy says it is “a fool’s errand” to base government policies affecting millions of Americans and billions of people around the world on these badly flawed models.
CNS News quotes Christy saying:
Our ignorance is simply enormous when it comes to the climate system, and our understanding is certainly not strong and solid enough to make policy about climate because we don’t even know what it’s going to do, so how can we make a policy that says ‘I want to make the climate do something’ when we don’t know what makes the climate do what it does?
https://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2014/10/06/no-global-warming-18-years
Hey, what do you know? Emissions controls and recycling actually works! Also, the beach at LBI was like being in Florida this summer, I have never seen the water that clean. We’ve come a long way form the 1980’s beach closures.
No-one seems to be suggesting that emissions control and recycling aren’t good things. Like your beach description, I recall the air being much dirtier when I was a kid, what with all the industry. The point is that Climate Change and the whole notion that it can be altered by Government action is both nonsense and is simply a political ploy to channel trillions of dollars into pet projects.
Without government action, medical waste would still be washing up in Belmar. What’s your point?
Ha Ha Ha –
When the facts establish that Global Warming is a hoax and a fraud…
then DECLARE VICTORY and double down on the restrictions and oppressive behavior!
Can you actually read? Where did I say there should be no Government action for anything other that climate change?
Wow – you’ve got it bad…
It is IMPOSSIBLE without government action…
No hope for you.