It's Worse Than We Thought… Again… "Warming may be irreversible by 2017"

It is true. The UK’s Met Office has confirmed how bad things are:
05 Dec 2011
“The Met Office’s Hadley Centre has today added to the flurry of recent reports warning of potentially catastrophic climate impacts if urgent action is not taken to try to limit global average temperature rises to 2º Centigrade.”
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2130139/met-office-report-warns-soaring-climate-risks
So, with this slam dunk research by top experts, looks like the debate is over. Thank goodness this confirmation came out in time for Durban.

Nice photo to go with the story.
“Taken from the US Coastguard Icebreaker Healey.”
Ice Breaker – In Summer ?

crosspatch. It is worse than you think. These soaring risks are unprecedented. Risks never used to soar. Now, like soaring hawks, they are rising due to all the hot air which is, of course, a result of unprecendented catastrophic runaway extreme climate change disruption caused by greedy immoral lizard brained capitalists, and their ilk.
Just like Tutu said.

“Warming may be irreversible by 2017″ because by 2017 the planet will be cooling and further plunging into a 30 year cool phase. These same individuals will be telling ” Cooling will be irreversible unless we restart and refire those fossil fuel furnaces “. Just wait as the 2011-2012 winter unfolds in the new year.The Pacific and Atlantic oceans are cooling and it is only a matter of time before the Northern Hemisphere will have weather like the late 1970’s. Several inland areas have already experienced this extra cold weather for the last 3-5 winters .

Explain to me why the earlier rise is natural and the more recent one isn’t
I didn’t think he would.

Gail, thanks for the links. I’m aware of Agenda 21, but the others I’d not heard about. I hope you know that my morons question was rhetorical. 😉
As for global governance, that’s been a dream of various conquerors for a few thousand years of course. A couple even came pretty close to it, in terms of the then known world.

crosspatch says:
December 5, 2011 at 11:53 am
And the point of my bringing that entire “Climate, Mind and Behavior Program” into this thread is to place this particular news story about the “irreversible” melting of the ice into that context. It is designed to be manipulative by making people afraid so they will buy in to the deal……
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The worst part is even if the people do not “Buy into the deal” they will just shove it down our throats any way.
The carbon fiasco in Australia is an excellent example and the Food Safety Modernization Act 2010passed during the lame duck section and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 enacted December 23.
Heck all they need is a very vocal mob like Occupy Wall Street and a stinking lying media to convince people that the “Majority” want carbon taxes to “Save the Earth”
Here are examples of how the Media twists things:
While Rasmussen polls say “69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research” http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/69_say_it_s_likely_scientists_have_falsified_global_warming_research
The general News Media is broadcasting.

Poll watcher: Republicans split on global warming;
Belief in global warming has recovered somewhat this year after a sharp falloff in 2008 and 2009, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released Thursday. Currently, 63 percent of Americans say there is “solid evidence” that the earth’s temperature has increased in past decades….
More than six in 10 moderate or liberal Republicans in the new poll say there is solid evidence of global warming (up 22 points from 2009), while barely three in 10 conservative Republicans say the same. And while 30 percent of Republicans who agree with the tea party believe in global warming, that jumps to 56 percent of non-tea party Republicans. Democrats continue to be the strongest believers – over three quarters say there is solid evidence…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/poll-watcher-republicans-split-on-global-warming-health-care-reform-and-gop-intensity/2011/12/01/gIQAAfMcHO_blog.html

Notice how the News Media has twisted the wording from “63 percent of Americans say there is “solid evidence” that the earth’s temperature has increased in past decades…” which the majority of skeptics here at WUWT agree with to “… believe in global warming” inferring a belief in CAGW.
The Council on Foreign Relations goes even further

….On the domestic front, a majority of U.S. citizens (58 percent in a 2009 WPO poll) believe the United States is not doing enough to address global warming and want it to commit to new international goals. Indeed, support for some actions has actually climbed since the start of the global financial crisis. In a Yale poll in May 2011, 66 percent of Americans endorsed signing an international treaty “that requires the United States to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide 90 percent by the year 2050.” In a 2010 poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA), 62 percentof U.S. respondents favored “a new international institution or agency” to monitor countries’ compliance with treaty obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. At the national level, Americans endorse a variety of schemes to reduce U.S. emissions. Eighty percent of Americans in a 2010 CCGA poll, for instance, favored “tax incentives to encourage the development and use of alternative energy sources, such as solar or wind power.” Another 80 percent “supported increasing the availability of local public transportation and 77 percent supported installing bike lanes on city streets, according to a May 2011 Yale poll. Finally, 76 percent agreed that the “U.S. government should limit the amount of climate change gases businesses can produce” in a June 2010 Stanford poll…..
http://blogs.cfr.org/patrick/2011/11/30/public-more-willing-than-politicians-to-address-climate-change/

Where in heaven are they pulling these numbers from? Polls taken only on college campuses? I would throw int the towel after reading this garbage if I did not know better.
The Blair-Rockefeller poll shows how questions can be twitsed to get the desired answers. (I have access to the questions)
The University of Arkansas press release of JUNE 21, 2011 states: The Tea Party is Not the Same as the Grand Old Party
Tea Party marked by negative views on health care, race and future
….Maxwell’s report, titled “Tea Party Distinguished by Racial Views and Fear of the Future,” was drawn from the first Blair-Rockefeller Poll, conducted in November 2010. In the report, Maxwell delineates demographics, characteristics and policy preferences of the Tea Party movement….
The press release of course lead to all the news media labeling the Tea Party as “Racist”
Yet when you dig into the report and questions you find:

Race Consciousness and Divergent Views about Equality are Characteristic of Tea Party.
….. When the sample is restricted to only White respondents, Tea Party distinctions on racial issues are clearer. Specifically, Tea Party members are more likely to believe that job, school, housing, and health equity are not the responsibility of the federal government. Nearly two-thirds (62.8%) of White Tea Party members think “we have gone too far in pushing equal rights in this country.” ….
TABLE 2. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TEA PARTY WHITES & NON-TEA PARTY WHITES NATIONWIDE
Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure that minorities have job equality with Whites, even if it means you will have to pay more taxes?
Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure that minorities have schools equal in quality to Whites, even if it means you have to pay more taxes?
Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure that minorities have housing equal in quality to Whites, even if it means you have to pay more taxes?
Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure that minorities have health care services equal to Whites, even if it means you have to pay more taxes?
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: We have gone too far in pushing equal rights in this country?
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Our society should do whatever is necessary to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as President?
Thinking about Barack Obama’s religious beliefs… Do you happen to know what Barack Obama’s religion is? (Christian)
Thinking about Barack Obama’s religious beliefs… Do you happen to know what Barack Obama’s religion is? (Muslim)
http://blairrockefellerpoll.uark.edu/5295.php

Again this is a subtle wording of the questions to twist the meaning. It is well known the Tea Party wants a curb in spending and a much smaller government. Therefore ANY question started with “Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government…” is likely to be answered NO! Dislike of Obama also has about as much to do with race as the liberals dislike of Bush Cain has to do with race.

Crosspatch: If someone has figured out how to influence and direct the next generation, sign me freakin up for that seminar. I couldn’t influence my teens to open their mouths when presented with food, let alone influence what they believed. And neither could their teachers.

jntkwx says:
December 5, 2011 at 3:08 pm
You can’t use a graph of only 10 years of data to talk about climate change. Climate needs to be discussed in terms of several decades, if not centuries.
Here is the same data used in that graph (HadCRUT3 Temperature Anomaly) since the 1860s http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/nhshgl.gif (source: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/)
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I prefer Lucy ‘s graph it tells the story much better: http://www.greenworldtrust.org.uk/Science/Images/ice-HS/noaa_gisp2_icecore_anim_adj.gif

Gail, even in the link he provided, there is clearly warming of the same rate and magnitude as the most recent spell but that 30 year period was “natural” and the most recent 30 year period was “anthropogenic”. Weird.