Of course we all know about that other ill-fated unabomber billboard last year that went over like a lead radiosonde balloon, but I like this one by CFACT (minus the date controversy of course).
Drive by this!
Science tells us that there is nothing out of the ordinary about today’s weather. There have always been droughts, floods, fires and storms and they will continue no matter what we do. A little historical research shows us that today’s weather is not even particularly extreme and by some measures is unusually tame.
NOAA and the U.K. Met Office, the two main sources of temperature data the UN’s IPCC rely on most, report that any warming there may have been has been limited to only three quarters of a degree in a century! Three quarters of a degree! Hardly the sort of thing to make a noticeable difference in extreme weather.
Further, the Met Office’s data shows no warming for the last 16-17 years! Our new billboard plasters the Met Office data in an easily understood graph right up in the sky.
It shows no warming for over 16 years 15 years. I’ve sent them a correction notice.
If you want to chip in to get one in your area, visit the link below. Billboards are surprisingly inexpensive.
http://www.cfact.org/donate/support-cfacts-billboard-campaign/
UPDATE: the 15/16 year issue discussed in comments is a matter of perception. If you count years, 97,98,99,00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12 you get a count of 16 years.
If you do the math, you get 15 years:
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=08&d1=31&y1=1997&m2=08&d2=31&y2=2012&ti=on
Note the extra day in that report. The issue has to do with defining the start point as zero or one. Counting years, like counting days, can give you can extra day. The timeanddate.com website allows for this by allowing you to not count the end day:
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=08&d1=31&y1=1997&m2=08&d2=31&y2=2012&ti=off
Either way, te lack of warming over the time period is a compelling argument.
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I like the idea of CFACT’s billboards, and really Mike Hebb’s idea of turning it into bumper stickers. I’d proudly put one on my car here in the People’s Republic of Austin.
I would (as others mentioned) only claim 15 years for the given dates; otherwise, the math error casts doubt on the whole point. Better yet, just keep it simple: “No warming”…”Where’s the warming?”…you get the idea.
As for the reference to Gore? I’d leave it. He got lots of money (not to mention a ludicrous “peace prize”) by being the spokesmannequin for the CAGW crowd. Let him be dragged down with them as this house of cards collapses. Gored by his own bull, as it were.
Phil JOnes at the CRU admitted that there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995. That’s 18 years!!!!!! Or 19, depending on how you count it.
Phobos says:
February 27, 2013 at 9:20 am
This billboard may have set a record for the ultimate cherry pick — I wonder why they didn’t pick April 1997 to April 2012 (+0.24 C) or May 1997 to May 2012 (+0.24 C)? *********************************************************************************************************
If you want to say there has been no significant warming for 15/16 years, what is the relevance of not using the current date as the end date. Similarly, if I say it’s been raining every day for the last three weeks, what is the period being referred to? My team has not won a match this year, can you work out the start and end dates? There is no cherry-picking, it’s a simple statement of how long there has been no warming (despite a steady increase in carbon dioxide and the predictions of consequential catastrophic effects).
My only regret is that I have to admit that the person responsible for the billboard really does need some extra help with mathematics and the rules for rounding upwards.
As has been explained many times up-thread, the reason for raising “the no warming for x years” at this point and for not saying it ten years ago is that we have finally reached a length of time that even the warmists have previously said would be significant and would invalidate models etc.
It’s very simple really.
Steve T
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I wouldn’t want to contribute through this process either . . .
http://www.justmeans.com/Black-As-Sin-Vatican-Bank-Accused-Of-Money-Laundering/31884.html
check out the publication date . . .
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-vatican-bank-head-idUSBRE91E0N520130215
or is it just one infinite loop for just another cover for a money skimming operation?