Josh writes:
There is a lovely cartoon over at Roger Pielke Jr’s which, delightful though it is, helps perpetuate the myth that Global Warming is somehow an issue for climate skeptics. It isn’t. The issue is Catastrophic Anthropogenic, and specifically that singularly caused by CO2, Global Warming and the alarmist hype surrounding the lack of science and the punitive energy policies that have been pursued in response to a non problem.
So I decided to do my own version of the cartoon – with apologies to the other cartoonist.
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LOL! This is the best one yet. Well done!
Adam says:
May 2, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Josh, you can have your own opinion about AGW, but you can’t lie about all the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming not even existing. The IPCC reports would be a good start for the evidence for AGW. You may disagree with the evidence, but you cannot say that no evidence has been provided.
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SIGH….
I suggest you read The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert (There is a kindle version)
Or you can start with UN’s Climate Bible Gets 21 ‘F’s on Report Card
more here: http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/
The IPCC reports are propaganda tools and nothing more. Especially since Madrid 1995: Was this the Tipping Point in the Corruption of Climate Science?
What has been passed off as evidence by the IPCC is the output of WWF, Greenpeace and computer models, not experimental evidence such as Svenmark has link or Nasa’s Dr. Joan Feynman, which supports Svenmark’s theory. link. Is Svenmark correct? It is too early to tell but at least he is doing real EXPERIMENTS!
As pointman said, it’s the simple idea of your art that makes it Josh. Brilliant as usual.
A bit like this…..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138678/Iconic-Scream-painting-fetches-whopping-119-million-auction.html
Do you think he just read the Hockey Stick Illusion?
Adam says:
May 2, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Josh, you can have your own opinion about AGW, but you can’t lie about all the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming not even existing. The IPCC reports would be a good start for the evidence for AGW. You may disagree with the evidence, but you cannot say that no evidence has been provided.
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Go on then Adam, humor us flat-earthers. Imagine walking up to Josh’s chalkboard and picking up the chalk …..
…….. what are you going to write ??
I love the way that ‘skeptics’ are vainly trying to hang on to a semblance of an argument. Since I’ve been working in this field the arguments have evolved along a line running from:
“There is no GE”, to
“It’s not warming”, to
“it’s not C02” to
“warming will be low” to
“warming will be high, but beneficial”.
Of course some “skeptics” are still at the first stage, and some have regressed back to various stages along their journey, but all the arguments have been lost. A bit sad really.
Since ‘Monty’ is not a climate scientist, or any other kind of scientist for that matter, his opinion is no more than that. An opinion.
Monty’s opinions are baseless, because they are predicated on false assumptions. Scientific skeptics know the planet has been warming naturally since the LIA, and that CO2 has little if anything to do with it. But Monty the pseudo-scientist can keep posting his nonsense here at the internet’s Best Science site, because WUWT does not censor uninformed opinions no matter how ridiculous they are.
Hi Smokey. Well, you don’t know what I do so it’s difficult for you to know I’m not a climate scientist.
Smokey says: “WUWT does not censor uninformed opinions no matter how preposterous they are” and then proves it!
Smokey says: “scientific skeptics know the planet has been warming naturally since the LIA”. How does the climate warm ‘naturally’ Smokey? Are you saying that 395ppm C02 isn’t having an effect? If so, then you are one of the ‘skeptics’ who doesn’t think there is a GE and is therefore still at the first stage of ‘skeptical’ evolution.
Catch up man!
Monty the pseudo-scientist says:
“Are you saying that 395ppm C02 isn’t having an effect?”
That is exactly what I am saying, and I can prove it.
The planet has been warming along the same long term trend line since the LIA. Warming has not accelerated, as it would if CO2 was the cause. The long term trend is the same whether CO2 is 280 ppmv, or 390 ppmv. Thus, CO2 has no measurable effect. A real scientist would know that.
Hi Smokey. Maybe you’d like to publish your ‘proof’. Of course, I know I’m wasting energy writing this as it’s quite clear that none of you ‘skeptics’ ever publish anything that could possibly be peer-reviewed.
So, if you want to be a scientist, then do some science!
To Monty the pseudo-scientist:
I have published my proof above. Falsify it, if you think you can.
Monty asks:
How does the climate warm naturally?
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Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that he not only is no scientist, but is completely clueless about climate. Perhaps he could try cracking a book. It might help.
Hi Bruce
You obviously don’t understand. What I am asking is how the climate warms when: TSI shows no trend, cloudiness shows no real trend, GCRs show no real trend……and yet C02 shows a consistent year on year increase? Given that all the other forcings show largely no trend, and C02 is a GHG and it’s increasing, and the stratosphere has cooled, and the isotopic composition of the atm…
Wait. Your’re not ‘skeptical’ are you? So it actually doesn’t matter what I or any other scientist tells you. You’ve heard it all before a thousand times and no evidence will ever convince you.
Slightly worrying for you that even Richard Lindzen accepts the GE, C02 is a GHG etc. He just argues for low sensitivity. That’s the problem with you ‘skeptics’….you can’t even agree among yourselves which argument to sustain!
Adam says:
May 2, 2012 at 3:12 pm
The IPCC reports would be a good start for the evidence for AGW.
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The IPCC reports contain some references to some studies and they also provide their conclusions. This is not science. The IPCC reports are as scientific as any newspaper article containing references and conclusions.
I suggest you prove first that the calculations of “global warming” are scientifically correct, especially the part concerning assigning temperatures to areas. This would be a good start.
Monty says:
May 3, 2012 at 7:57 am
Hi Bruce
You obviously don’t understand. What I am asking is how the climate warms when: TSI shows no trend, cloudiness shows no real trend, GCRs show no real trend……and yet C02 shows a consistent year on year increase?
Yes, we are skeptics. The question you wrote is unanswered, and the answer may well deserve recognition and rewards, the Nobel among them.
Now, let me ask it again: What is the observed, measured, real-world relationship between CO2 (in specific, NOT generic “greenhouse gasses” or the generic “greenhouse effect”) as it is used to demand 1.3 trillion in added taxes and controls from the US economy alone?
While CO2 was steady, we have seen temperatures rise by 1-1/2 to 2 degrees, remain steady for one to three decades, and fallen by 1-1/2 to 2 degrees.
While CO2 has risen by over 30% we have measured temperatures rising by 1/2 of one degree, remain steady for 10 – 15 years, and fallen by 1/2 of one degree. (At least, they were measured falling BEFORE your hallowed CAGW so-called scientists fiddled with their temperature records……)
The ONLY way your ever-so “scientific”, government-paid models designed by government-paid “scientists” and reviewed and promoted by other government-paid “scientists” can get the results the government-paid agencies and their government-paid policy makers want is to deliberately adjust both the assumed CO2 feedback within their government-paid computers and also their assumed government-inspired aerosol levels (NOT measured worldwide aerosol levels at all!) to match the government-adjusted temperature records that the government-paid agencies are paying for to gain the control over the economies and tax revenues that the government wants.
So, who is paying your salary? .
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Monty says:
May 3, 2012 at 7:57 am
You obviously don’t understand. What I am asking is how the climate warms when: TSI shows no trend, cloudiness shows no real trend, GCRs show no real trend……and yet C02 shows a consistent year on year increase? Given that all the other forcings show largely no trend, and C02 is a GHG and it’s increasing, and the stratosphere has cooled, and the isotopic composition of the atm…
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Even simple climate models require that the atmosphere warm faster than the surface, if GHGs are the cause. Our atmosphere isn’t warming faster than the surface, so any surface warming isn’t due to GHGs.
That missing hot spot that GCMs show is a mandatory requirement for GHG warming. Without it, the alarmist’s case for GHGs falls apart.
Jim
Monty says:
May 3, 2012 at 6:39 am
“I love the way that ‘skeptics’ are vainly trying to hang on to a semblance of an argument. Since I’ve been working in this field the arguments have evolved along a line running from:
“There is no GE”, to
“It’s not warming”, to
“it’s not C02″ to
“warming will be low” to
“warming will be high, but beneficial”.”
Funny – If you invert all of those propositions you have the evolution of the CAGW argument exactly! Skeptics are merely those whose BS detectors sounded loudly after Hanson’s 1988 Congressional testimony and have been ringing loudly ever since. Failure of temperatures to increase after about 2001 falsifies the notion that increasing CO2 is the sole cause of increasing temperatures, so many more became skeptics and the credibility of the warmists was destroyed. It will not avail them now to put forward new models, adjust the temperature record, or make alarmist media products that are now impossible to believe. All that is left is politics, which may serve for a short while longer.
Monty says:
May 3, 2012 at 7:57 am
Slightly worrying for you that even Richard Lindzen accepts the GE, C02 is a GHG etc. He just argues for low sensitivity. That’s the problem with you ‘skeptics’….you can’t even agree among yourselves which argument to sustain!
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He does? But John Smith, Peter Johns, John Peters and Mary Whoever do not. You see, we have 4 against 1 and you lost. Just kidding, but you certainly get the idea.
It is not about how people call themselves, it is about science. Richard Lindzen needs to present evidences for his claims exactly like any radical or moderate warmist.
pochas says:
May 3, 2012 at 8:26 am
Skeptics are merely those whose BS detectors sounded loudly after Hanson’s 1988 Congressional testimony and have been ringing loudly ever since.
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But not loudly enough to check this, apparently: http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1987/1987_Hansen_Lebedeff.pdf
Hi RACookPE1978.
You said: “government-paid models designed by government-paid “scientists” and reviewed and promoted by other government-paid “scientists” can get the results the government-paid agencies and their government-paid policy makers”,
See this isn’t about science for you at all, is it? It’s about politics. The problem is…understanding climate change is a science. What we do about it, is politics. I’m talking about the former. You are fixated about the latter.
Hi Jim. You said: “That missing hot spot that GCMs show is a mandatory requirement for GHG warming”. No it isn’t.
Hi Pochas. You said: “Failure of temperatures to increase after about 2001 falsifies the notion that increasing CO2 is the sole cause of increasing temperatures”. The temperature hasn’t failed to increase, given that 2005 and 2010 were both warmer than 2001 (in any event, 12 years is too short to assert a statistical trend). What scientist said that C02 is the ‘sole cause’ of increasing temperatures?
Monty~ I for one would very much appreciate a link(s) to your peer-reviewed research, or at the very least, to your bio page on the website for your place of employment. I would like to learn more.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Otter
Well, obviously if I sent you a link to my peer-reviewed publications then there wouldn’t be any point in posting under an assumed name!
[REPLY: Did you give any thought to how this sounds before hitting “post comment”? Moderators have been known to forward e-mail contacts on request. -REP]
Monty says:
May 3, 2012 at 8:50 am
Hi RACookPE1978.
You said: “government-paid models designed by government-paid “scientists” and reviewed and promoted by other government-paid “scientists” can get the results the government-paid agencies and their government-paid policy makers”,
See this isn’t about science for you at all, is it? It’s about politics. The problem is…understanding climate change is a science. What we do about it, is politics. I’m talking about the former. You are fixated about the latter.
If – big “if” there, by the way – if YOU could take the politics (and the money, and the economic control, and the taxes, and the emotionalism, and the CAGW (deliberately-inspired) Fear, and the power, and the economic and health devastation deliberately CAUSED BY the afore-mentioned CAGW Fear) ) out of the discussion, you might have a case to begin discussing CAGW “scientifically” ….
But You, the CAGW community that is using your biases and predjucies to control the so-called “scientific” debate, cannot separate the politics from the debate because you have no independent, measured, real-world basis for your so-called “scientific” discussion. As shown above, there is No Relationship you can establish at any time in history (satellite, analog measured, paleo-historic, or geologic) that confirms your biases and prejudices that varying CO2 levels affect earth’s temperatures.
And that is the question. You have absolutely no “scientific” basis for your claims of a relationship. Thus, you must – to force your prejudices and biases on the world, step up the political and theist (religious-levels) of dogma and “belief” and so-called “logic.” (CO2 is a so-called greenhouse gas, the earth’s temperature is controlled by greenhouse gasses, therefore rising CO2 forces a rise in temeperature. THAT is your only argument.
But it is NOT a “scientific” or an engineered, controlled, real-world argument.
For example, I claim (correctly) that water expands as it heats up.
So, therefore, you claim, based on my statement, that “Putting heat into water makes the water expand.” And YOU are wrong.
So, therefore, you claim, based on my statement, that “Putting heat into water makes its temperature go up.” And YOU are wrong.
I claim,correctly, that “Ice has a greater albedo than open water.”
Therefore, you claim, based on my statement, that “Reducing the minimum Arctic ice extents forces world’s temperatures to go up.”
And you are wrong. Because the measured data shows Arctic temperatures at 80 north are going down, and because – at the time of minimum ice extent, the sun’s energy is reflected off of the open water, not absorbed. Now, IF the Arctic ice were at the equator, and IF the time of the minimum ice extents were at mid-summer, and IF the open water did not reflect energy at low angles of incidence just as much as ice does, and IF the sun’s energy were not trying to pass through the equivalent of 11 thicknesses of atmospheres just to reach the Arctic ice at minimum extents, then – and only then – would your original claim be correct.
But your statement about a supposed positive ice albedo feedback, your ever-so-logical conclusion based on a limited number of self-selected real-world facts by your self-selected (prejudiced) world view is dead wrong. And you, the CAGW-community of politically and emotionally dominated alarmists are being paid (emotionally, politically, religiously, and physically and financially and socially by internal and external feedbacks from that same CAGW community) to create and maintain such an alarm.
Yes, please do so. Bring “science” into the debate. Keep “science” in the debate – but only science. But first, take the tax money that is paying out of it.
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Monty says:
May 3, 2012 at 8:50 am
Hi Jim. You said: “That missing hot spot that GCMs show is a mandatory requirement for GHG warming”. No it isn’t.
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Thus spoke Monty (Hand waving). You also don’t understand feedback models.
Jim
May 3, 2012 at 7:57 am
Hi Bruce
You obviously don’t understand. What I am asking is how the climate warms when: TSI shows no trend, cloudiness shows no real trend, GCRs show no real trend……and yet C02 shows a consistent year on year increase? Given that all the other forcings show largely no trend, and C02 is a GHG and it’s increasing, and the stratosphere has cooled, and the isotopic composition of the atm…
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All the other forcings show no trend?? Where the heck have you been hiding for the past decade?
Clouds and Albedo
From Dr Spencer: Clouds Dominate CO2 as a Climate Driver Since 2000 and The 2007-2008 Global Cooling Event: Evidence for Clouds as the Cause
Project Earthshine shows increase in albedo
\NASA: Clouds dominate the “shininess” of our planet
GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS – CLOUDS EFFECT AND BIFURCATION MODEL OF THE
EARTH GLOBAL CLIMATE. PART 1. THEORY Published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Vol. 72 (2010) p. 398-408
NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection in Old Nile Records (ancient Nile and auroral records) (
and the peer reviewed paperpeer reviewed paper
NASA Sept. 23, 2008: Solar Wind Loses Power, Hits 50-year Low
NASA Dec. 16, 2008: Giant Breach in Earth’s Magnetic Field Discovered
NASA February 5, 2010: The ‘Variable Sun’ Mission (‘Solar Constant’ is an Oxymoron)
NASA July 15, 2010:A Puzzling Collapse of Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
That is just a smattering of info on the Sun and Clouds and does not included what is happening in the oceans or the jet stream.
Monty you keep making the mistake of thinking we are the equivalent of Münzenberg’s unthinking ‘Innocents’ Club
Hi Gail
So you find papers that show that solar variability has an effect on climate. Well, of course it does (it may account for part of the ‘LIA’ cooling). But it doesn’t explain recent warming. Of course, you just want to find ANY driver other than C02 to be the one that the climate is responding to. Climate scientists are well aware that lots of things cause climate change….and an enormous increase in a known GHG (C02) is obviously one of them. We also know it’s not solar that is driving recent warming as the stratosphere is cooling, which is a fingerprint for GHG and the opposite that would be expected if the warming was driven by solar variation.
But of course, you are only ‘skeptical’ when it concerns AGW aren’t you.