UPDATE: The subject of this article, Mojib Latif, has challenged the Daily Mail article and it’s interpretation. In another story at the Guardian, Latif says the interpretation by the Daily Mail and a similar story in the Telegraph is wrongly interpreting his work.
Read the Guardian story here and decide for yourself. If anyone knows of a contact for Dr. Latif, please leave it in comments as I’ll make this forum available to him should he wish to elaborate further.
h/t to WUWT reader Werner Weber for notifying me.
UPDATE2: Werner Weber writes to me in email:
> I have send him an e-mail, pointing out what happened during the night
> and invite him to take the oportunity to present his views in one of the
> leading sceptics blogs.
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We’ve been covering a lot of the recent cold outbreaks under the “weather is not climate department” heading. This story however is about both weather and climate and what one IPCC scientist thinks is headed our way.
The cold this December and January has been noteworthy and newsworthy. We just posted that December 2009 was the Second Snowiest on Record in the Northern Hemisphere. Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years, and Korea had the largest snowfall ever recorded since record keeping began in 1937. Plus all of Britain was recently covered by snow.
The cold is setting records too.
Oranges are freezing and millions of tropical fish are dying in Florida, there are Record low temperatures in Cuba and thousands of new low temperature records being set in the USA as well as Europe.
There are signs everywhere, according to an article in the Daily Mail, which produced this graphic below:
According to IPCC scientist Mojib Latif in an article for the Daily Mail, it could be just the beginning of a decades-long deep freeze. Latif is known as one of the world’s leading climate modelers.
Latif, is a professor at the Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University and an author of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Latif is a prominent scientist in the UN’s IPCC climate research group.
Latif thinks the cold snap Americans, Brits, and Europeans have been suffering through is the beginning of another cycle, this one a down cycle. He says we’re in for 30 years of cooler temperatures. While maybe it is a harsh prediction, he calls it a “mini ice age”. That phrase is sure to stick in the craw of more than a few people. His theory is based on an analysis of natural oscillations in water temperatures in the oceans.
According to his He believes our current cold weather pattern is a pause, a “30-years-long blip”, in the larger cycle of global warming, which postulates that temperatures will rise rapidly over the coming years.
At a U.N. conference in September, Latif said that changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation could mask over any “manmade global warming” for the next few decades. He said the fluctuations in the NAO could also be responsible for much of the rise in global temperatures seen over the past 30 years.
In a stunning revelation, he told the Daily Mail that:
“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 percent.”
Quite a revelation, and a smack down of much of the climate science in the last 30 years that attributes the cause mostly to CO2 increases.
In other news, Arctic sea ice is on the rise too.
According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007.I’m betting that summer 2010 will have even more ice retained.
Right now, there doesn’t appear to be much of that “rotten ice” that one Canadian alarmist researcher squawked about to the media just a few weeks ago. In fact, we aren’t looking bad at all compared to 30 years ago.
Note that 30 years ago, the technology didn’t exist to display snow cover on the left image, but today we can see just how much our northern hemisphere resembles a snowball.
Now, watch the warmists throw Latif under the bus.
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I meant, of course, the reactions to the recent horrors of scientific perversion may well have given rise to a decent return to Science.
Oh no! It’s getting colder. AGC (cooling) is here, give us money!
Is there a composite satellite image of the whole world that shows, photographically, the current snow cover?
Figuring out where to put the carbon
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/carbon-sequestration-0111.html
MIT used to be a great place to study one time. Now as with all the main stream Ivy league colleges they have moved away from mainstream science and created Hollywood style fictional catastrophes to get the attention of the students.
Hypothetical science degrees, fiction rather than fact.
OT (dont need to post if you dont want)
Anthony / moderators
I think the tips & notes blog is completely full or some problem like that. I have a really good link, but the “leave a comment” box never shows up (after the page took several minutes to load) – Sorry for posting this here (& feel free not to post ) – it was the only way for me to communicate this.
Here’s my tip. See link:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html
I got this from a friend via email. I pretty informative little quiz for people who aren’t as close to the AGW as most are on this blog. It would be good short post with the recommendation WUWT readers pass the link along to as many of their friends as possible. Seems like a good way to communicate same basic info to a broader spectrum of people.
I believe Piers Corbyn predicted a cooling phase of 20 years followed by a period of around 100 years in which it would stay cooler than the past few years.
Perhaps Mojab Latif has been taking a few pointers?
James Hansen .. call your office.
Caveat: I’m not a scientist. But here goes anyway. It seems the operative question that arises from Latif’s statements is do the models that the IPCC is basing its conclusions upon properly model the effects of the North American Oscillation? Related, but I believe separate: Do the models allow for this temperature variation or do these temps fall within an acceptable confidence interval? (my assumption is it’s possible that models could be correct even if the NAO isn’t modeled properly or at all).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/11/climate-change-global-warming-mojib-latif
He’s now saying that he’s been misinterpreted, though this isn’t the first time that he’s said there cooling “which we have to explain”
Mojib Latif describes himself as a believer in Global Warming
“If my name was not Mojib Latif, my name would be global warming. So I really believe in Global Warming” ,
I’m sure it won’t be long before the warmists find his theories too unpalatable for their camp and begin to describe him as a Flat-Earther or a Denialist.
“Now, watch the warmists throw Latif under the bus.”
No, Latif has thrown the Mail journalist under a bus:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/11/climate-change-global-warming-mojib-latif
“The recent articles are not the first to misrepresent his research, Latif said.”
Or the last.
I posted this earlier on Christopher Bookers article in the Telegraph:
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6958093/Climate-change-the-true-price-of-the-warmists-folly-is-becoming-clear.html)
I see that now there is a thought that “global warming” may have, er, “paused” for the next 20 or 30 years… (Professor Mojib Latif – a “leading” member of IPCC, of course)
Is this a grudging half-acceptance of the truth, I wonder?
They don’t half wriggle, don’t they! Not having the humility to admit that the planet may now be entering a cooling phase, and that they might have been wrong all along, they say that warming may “pause” for a while, whilst cooling replaces it temporarily, then warming will resume resume. Which is what happens all the time, isn’t it? The planet warms, then cools, then warms…
I find it all rather amusing.
So, if the planet has been cooling, a temporary warm up would be “runaway global warming”, but if has been warming (or static), a cooling is only “temporary”? Yeah, right…
Running with the hare, and with the hounds springs to mind…
I am wondering why though the UAH site shows a warmer month so far? I would expect to see something cooler show up? I know the trends still show negative for the past 7-8yrs or so.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
It appears that natural climate fluctuations (and a certain whistle blower) have saved us from the AGW alarmists. The alarmists will likely never say uncle (It’s only a pause!), but if the center/independent voter wasn’t lost to Climategate, surely it will be to this winter.
Our national energy policy should now focus on becoming as independent as possible from foreign oil and gas, and prevention of true/traditional air and water pollution, not CO2. (As of now, the more CO2 the better.) Coal mining and burning do contribute significantly to pollution and environmental degradation so IMHO we need a slow but definite and economically viable transition from coal to thorium nuclear. If you are unfamiliar with the advantages of thorium over uranium/plutonium, here are some sources:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/email/html/8746sci2.html
http://www.itheo.org/
http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/2006/05/chronology-of-nuclear-history-with.html
Greens don’t care if we’re going to freeze, as long as they can make you live on a few beans and a glass of dirty water…and that’s for westerners. What they have planned for Africans can barely be put into words…
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-end-of-consumerism-our-way-of-life-is-not-viable-1863278.html
Funniest paranoid comment on there “I just don’t buy French cheese any longer. The carbon footprint is just too large”
And I almost died laughing.
Billions upon billions of dollars have been wasted on concocted science where the “ends” justified the manipulation of the “means” – aka the facts.
I believe a number of AGW scientists should be arrested and prosecuted for fraud, beginning with MMann.
If the Sun is anything to do with it (which I am not saying that it is, not at list directly trough TSI), then most likely that would be the case.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/LFC2.htm
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/PF-strength.gif
(more graphs on http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/GandF.htm )
Speaking of skeptics and almost-skeptics, there is a list article on WIkipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming
that could use your help. We are looking for more scientists to list here. This list was started by the warmists who have really set a high bar for inclusion, presumably to keep the numbers of scientists listed low.
Any names you all can add would be appreciated, either in the article or the Talk page.
Thanks in advance
Don’t let up on the pressure. All of you, please post this on any other sites you visit to keep reminding folks of what the ‘state of the art’ in climate modeling looks like (published 20/06/2009 on Marketwatch):
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heating-costs-could-fall-8-this-winter-2009-10-06
“Catching a break on heating costs
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WASHINGTON (Medill News Service) — U.S. households could get an 8% break on the cost of heating their homes this winter, the Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday”
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Warmer winter on tap
Temperatures in the U.S. will likely be about 1% warmer this winter, compared with both last winter and the 30-year average, said Michael Halpert, deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday.
“We have a weak el niño, developed over the summer,” Halpert said. “Forecasts for the most part, maintain some level of el niño through the winter.”
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They must be called out and held accountable for their poorly performing models.
Its cool here too in NZ. 15 at the moment, chilly even. But I’m headed for Aussie, sunny Goldcoast, this weekend. Nice and warm there, but not too warm
Moderator:
Note that 30years ago, the technology didn’t exist to display snow cover on the left image, but today we can see just how much our northern hemisphere resembles a snowball.
If it was intended for the right pane to show 2010 instead of 2009, the Cyrosphere Today compare page needs to be selector box utilized to get 2010.
It wants to show 2009 by default.
REPLY: press refresh for an updated image
Jack
“The joke is going to be on a lot of people. I hope that people learn some lessons about being conned. There were a lot of people who never believed in AGW.”
There will be MANY more who will claim they never accepted AGW once that damned overdue kid finally has the ears of the people who matter and exclaims “but he’s not wearing anything.”
As one person in a recent documentary I saw about Woodstock said, “If everyone who has SAID they were there actually was there, there would have been millions of attendees, not just the half million who actually were there.”
It will be the same, but I have to admit I will, for once, be happy to be one of the many who will claim they knew all along something was wrong with the whole damned thing.
If global temperatures really do begin to cool the IPCC can now claim that they predicted it, similar to how the UK Met Office predicted a leveling off of temperatures in the past decade.
Forecast; SEE:
http://sites.google.com/site/earthquakepredictionbyjac/Home/greenhouse-effect/SUN%20-EARTH.%20Energy.%20Greenhouse%20effect%20-%20fiction%203.bmp?attredirects=0
http://sites.google.com/site/earthquakepredictionbyjac/Home/greenhouse-effect/KLIMAT2.eml?attredirects=0&d=1
and
http://sites.google.com/site/earthquakepredictionbyjac/Home/listy
“At a U.N. conference in September, Latif said that changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation could mask over any “manmade global warming” for the next few decades. ”
Here’s the thing
Go back to the original paper, the granddaddy of them all by Hansen
“Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”
Science 28 August 1981, Volume 213, Number 4511
Hansen explicitly predicts in this paper that CO2-warming will overwhelm all other climate factors by the year 2000, and with increasing magnitude after that date so long as anthropogenic CO2 production grows year-on-year. It is as specific and falsifiable a prediction as we’re going to get out of these warmist scientists
So, if the Earth cools after 2000, that’s it. Not only is Hansen’s theory wrong, but that cooling can’t be blamed on other factors either