From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser
News Media No Longer Interested In Climate Hysteria
2013 marks the 17th year of no warming on the planet. Almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong for the cause of global warming. 2013 was the best of years for climate skeptics; the worst of years for climate change enthusiasts for whom any change – or absence of change — in the weather served as irrefutable proof of climate change. That governments and the public would abandon the duty to stop climate change was in their minds no more thinkable than Hell freezing over. Which the way things are going for them, may happen in 2014. –Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post, 20 December 2013
As the Anthropogenic Global Warming boondoggle continues to collapse, the Greens and others complicit in the warming alarmist industry are busily looking for reasons for their failure to convince people of the validity of their message. It’s called crying Wolf, repeatedly, the Greens simply don’t comprehend that after decades of failed predictions of looming environmental holocaust, people are bored of the CO2 wolf that never comes. Like all good scams and totalitarian ideologies the suppression of dissent and discussion was of a paramount importance to keep the public with the Green message. The Greens and warmists always knew that their story would never stand up to public scrutiny and debate which is why they worked so hard to suppress dissent and smear the opponents with labels like “Denier”. —Tory Aardvark, 17 December 2013
Global sea ice area is the second highest on record for Dec 16th, and the highest since 1988. For most of this year, it has been above the 1979-2008 mean. –Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 19 December 2013
OK, this is probably going to be the most boring interview I’ve ever done. And I probably shouldn’t even do it because it’s kind of a losing proposition, but I will because I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it’s been handled. The boredom [is] so purified and crystalized it’s in an unadulterated form that could make even a robot want to commit suicide. –Randy Olson, Spiegel Online, 20 December 2013
Last month we told you about John Beale, the Environmental Protection Agency employee who bilked taxpayers out of almost $900,000 by pretending to be a secret agent. Telling EPA colleagues that he was a CIA operative, Beale was paid for long absences while on imaginary missions for “Langley.” Now there is a disturbing new question about John Beale that goes to the heart of the EPA’s mission. Are we now supposed to believe that in contrast to his other lies, the work Beale chose to perform at EPA is the product of careful and honest analysis? What Congress needs to examine is whether the policies that the head of EPA says were shaped to a large degree by Beale were also based on fraud. —The Wall Street Journal, 19 December 2013
Surprise! The media still doesn’t want to discuss climate change that much. A new FAIR survey looking at top national news networks found that while reports of extreme weather dominated the media in 2013, networks failed to include hardly any mention of human influence. A study in August revealed that the more time viewers spend consuming conservative news, the more likely they are to become skeptical of climate science. –Catherine Taibi, Huffington Post, 18 December 2013
Critics are slamming Reddit over a single moderator’s decision to ban climate-change skeptics from contributing to its science forum, attacking the move as “political censorship.” In an op-ed titled “Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why don’t all newspapers do the same?” Nathan Allen explained his decision to wipe comments from some users he dismissed as “problematic.” Allen called for other news outlets to follow his example, asking “if a half-dozen volunteers can keep a page with more than 4 million users from being a microphone for the antiscientific, is it too much to ask for newspapers to police their own editorial pages as proficiently?” –Adam Shaw, Fox News, 19 December 2013
@Francisco, and other WUWT folks –
Let’s not forget that the NOAA has started trying to rewrite the history of the most recent highest temps period (the 1930s), in true Orwellian fashion, by “adjusting” and “recalculating”. What with other indications that raw data is being destroyed in other disciplines where there is disagreement on fundamentals, we’d better hope that somewhere, someone trustworthy has archived all the real data where der Fuehrer and his AGW satraps can’t get to it.. NOAA has already been caught falsifying recent temp data, so it would follow that they will try to “revise” older data to make it fit the hockey stick. It’s a good thing there is as much anecdotal evidence and data squirreled away in such things as local newspapers – that makes it a lot harder for them to do their Orwell shtick, and there’s no way they could ever undo the historical records of prior warming periods without destroying an awful lot of library collections. However, whatever is in the Library of Congress in the way of original documents might well be vulnerable, so long as the Chief Alarmist is president. Vigilance is most definitely required!
@GeologyJim –
Couldn’t say it better myself – “renewable” energy is an environmental as well as economic disaster. Frankly, I’d like to see the investors in them required to pay for removing them, disposing of the various hazmats in them, and restoring the landscapes and habitats they have destroyed.
That graph does not show tenths of a degree above and below 14.5C
Isn’t that the graph of surface temperature?
The CAGW hypothesis can’t take many more years of no increasing trends in: global land/sea temps, lower troposphere temps, top 700 meters of ocean temps, Accumulated Cyclone Energy, global ice extents, droughts, global snow cover, etc. To the contrary, all of these observed climate indicators are completely the opposite of CAGW hypothetical projections.
CAGW polling data shows people are losing faith in THE CAUSE, with growing numbers thinking its a complete joke. Even the MSM is becoming more open to the idea that perhaps CAGW isn’t the settled science they were lead to believe and helped propagandize.
Doubt leads to skepticism, which, hopefully, leads to CAGW finally ending up on the trash heap of failed ideas within the not too distant future.
Warmunist scientists and politicians are running out of excuses and time, while taxpayers are running out of money, patience and faith for CAGW.
I think we’re quickly reaching the beginning of the end on this scam.
Read an article that stated the USA had bumper crops of most grains this last growing season due to almost perfect weather and climate conditions.
I doubt it will be widely announced thru most media .
I have forgot the link to .
Lying about CO2AGW was the Pandora’s box for journalists. They got away with it and now they lie about everything. It will also be their downfall.
Chad Wozniak says: “Frankly, I’d like to see the investors in them required to pay for removing them, disposing of the various hazmats in them, and restoring the landscapes and habitats they have destroyed.”
Agree totally, there are 100’s of the things blighting our NE England landscape. To add insult to injury, they either spin slowly or not at all, generating negligible amounts of electricity, certainly not enough to offset the CO2 needed to build them, the roads to service them and the 800 tons of concrete needed to prevent them from toppling over.
If the natural climate variations of Earth had not stemmed the warming evident in the ’90s. We free humans would be majorly screwed. We would be guilt ridden tax mules. Thank you God, Thank you.
“Today’s Denver Post editorial was titled “Wind Power – YES; Killing Eagles – NO””
Killing avian wildlife goes with the territory when it comes to idiotic wind turbines. With that said, allow me to rewrite the Denver Post’s editorial title for them…..
“KILL WIND TURBINES, NOT AVIAN WILDLIFE”
Annus Horribilis (don’t forget that second ‘n’)
A period of continuously falling global global mean temperatures lasting thirty to fifty years or longer will be necessary before the climate science community ever begins to question its basic narrative that greenhouse gases are the primary regulating mechanism of the earth’s climate system.
The AGW alarmists will never give up, not within the lifetimes of most of the people who follow WUWT, anyway. What happens next with GHG regulation and control will depend upon what happens next with future socioeconomic, political, and popular culture trends.
If GMT either stays flat or climbs at a slow rate which is inconsistent with model predictions, the actual trend of global mean temperature will have little or no effect in changing the climate science community’s basic AGW narrative. What will change will be the variety and complexity of the explanations given for why measured GMT in the atmosphere doesn’t reflect the supposed radiative imbalance.
The extent to which the popular media pays attention to what the climate science community says will also depend upon what happens next with future socioeconomic, political, and popular culture trends. AGW will ebb and flow as other popular trends ebb and flow, but it will never disappear as an agendized social-political movement.
“News Media No Longer Interested In Climate Hysteria”–well, except for the PBS Newshour. I seldom see it but every time that I have when at my parents house, there has been some misleading hype about climate change. Maybe I am just lucky.
When anyone wishes to illustrate the radiative balance of the Earth in simple form, and this is where all discussion of AGW begins, they employ an average surface temperature of 288K. That the measured value begins and ends in this particular record at 14.5C then suggests not only is its temperature not increasing, our planet is even cooler than the hysterics claim.
[While perhaps accurate, this was trimmed per site policy. Mod]
Frank K. says:
But this points to something I think we should all do in 2014. The CAGW climate meme has gotten so utterly ridiculous, and its proponents so deluded and dysfunctional, that we need to start eliminating (from our daily lives) media that support this nonsense. For example, I’ll never use “Weather Underground” again – let Jeff Masters make his money from someone else. And, besides, there are MUCH better weather information sites on the internet.
LIke what? Every place I have found to get weather information from supports the CAGW meme completely. Can anyone suggest any that aren’t always trying to serve the koolaid?
So tell me what will the Global Warmistas do as the climate grows constantly and inexorably COLDER? As the tree line marches ever toward the equator? As one city after another is abandoned due to unmanageable snow accumulation?
1) Keep shouting Climate Change
2) Demand the speedy trial and execution of Global Warming Deniers
3) Change the topic to something more sexy such as porn
“We need to start eliminating (from our daily lives) media that support this nonsense.”
Yes I have. I do view a little just to keep my hand in propaganda recoginization and techniques; not a bad skill to have these days..