Hey, do you like physics? If you do, head on over the the American Physical Society’s site, APS Physics, and read the full text of “Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered” by By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. If you are like me, you will make a genuine attempt at all of the physics jargon for a few paragraphs then, skim to the neat graphs and on to the conclusion.
If you don’t want to go to the trouble of acting like you are reading the whole thing, here is Monckton’s conclusion.
In short, we must get the science right, or we shall get the policy wrong. If the concluding equation in this analysis (Eqn. 30) is correct, the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) estimates of climate sensitivity must have been very much exaggerated. There may, therefore, be a good reason why, contrary to the projections of the models on which the IPCC relies, temperatures have not risen for a decade and have been falling since the phase-transition in global temperature trends that occurred in late 2001. Perhaps real-world climate sensitivity is very much below the IPCC’s estimates. Perhaps, therefore, there is no “climate crisis” at all. At present, then, in policy terms there is no case for doing anything. The correct policy approach to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing.
I like that; “the courage to do nothing”.
So, stay warm kids and remember…
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WUPPat Darnell and Friends wrote,
I remember our weather man in 1962, Sid Lasher, was the nicest guy, but a bit of side-winder with a flask always in his breast pocket. He had a little flip chart of the states as he sat in a wing back leather chair, and drew on it with a marker. He was always smoking an L and M, and had the type Adam’s apple that bobbed with his Bing Crosby baritone.
He always ended his “forecast” with the temperature in Presidio, TX… as it was always 100 something, year ’round.
I asked the kids’ grandma what she remembers about those days: “If he was the guy in charge of recording all the temperatures back then, I’m willing to bet those numbers are all messed up.”
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