By Mark Heyer – You’re a climate denier if:
– You believe that the atmosphere has continued to warm for the last 17+ years despite rapid growth of CO2. 97% of real climate scientists acknowledge that it hasn’t. They call it the “pause” or “hiatus” although there is no scientific evidence that warming will pick up again or when.
– If you believe that Antarctica is melting. NASA satellite data shows that the sea ice extent around Antarctica in 2014 is the largest in recorded history.
![antarctic_seaice_sept19[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/antarctic_seaice_sept191.jpg?quality=83)
– If you believe that the observed West Antarctica warming is caused by warming of the atmosphere. Recent studies show that the heat is coming from volcanoes below the glacier. Besides, air temperatures in the area are far below zero. Ice doesn’t melt in subfreezing air.
![antarctic-volcano[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/antarctic-volcano1.gif)
– If you believe that 97% of climate scientists support the claim that global warming is driven directly by man-made CO2. It is true that 97% believe in climate change, which is the question they were asked, which is like asking them if the sun rises in the morning. Far fewer agreed with the man-made warming question and few of them agree on the details.
– You believe that climate models accurately represent the climate of the earth. They don’t. Even the scientists who run them and the IPCC agree that they cannot predict the future of the climate. This is now obvious to everyone since they totally failed to predict the leveling off of atmospheric temperatures since 2000.
– You think that climate models accurately model the behavior of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. They don’t. They are completely unable to model the behavior of 97% of the greenhouse gas, water vapor and clouds. The dire predictions of runaway global warming from CO2 were based on the conjecture that water vapor would amplify the effects of CO2. The lack of recent warming while CO2 continues to increase shows clearly that water vapor is either neutral or in fact suppresses the warming from CO2.
– If you believe that around 2000, CO2 magically changed its mind and decided to warm the oceans instead of the air. Some scientists speculate that this is the case but there is little or no hard science to support the notion. Some even speculate that the heat is going into the deep oceans, even though there is no way to measure it or find it.
– You believe that man-made global warming is causing climate disasters. The International Red Cross reports that natural disasters are at a ten year low. Tornado and hurricane activity have also been at near record lows.
Don’t be an anti-science climate denier.
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Martin, This link is for you. This is satellite temperature record since 1979. Temps have risen about 0.4C in 35 years. This is consistent with the warming rate since 1850. The Earth has been warming since the end of the Little Ice Age. There is no acceleration in temperature rise. There is no signature for CO2 warming. None.
Hmm, the problem is the Earth should’ve been cooling due to natural forcings. Along comes the industrial revolution in the 1800’s and boom!
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/judge-3-640×390.png
We have warming due to CO2 instead.
Martin:
Don’t believe that type of multi-proxy crap. It is nothing but propaganda. This is what people mean by the term “junk science”. The MWP and the LIA have been disappeared. Throw it away.
Forget the sarc tag?
Or Trenberth’s ‘big jumps’ due to El Ninos?
http://www.rmets.org/weather-and-climate/climate/has-global-warming-stalled
Let’s see: misrepresentation, cherry picking and one outright lie.
Kevin knows perfectly well that the sea level acceleration seen with the satellites was caused by a systemic error in their position certainty, as reported on this very site:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/30/finally-jpl-intends-to-get-a-grasp-on-accurate-sea-level-and-ice-measurements/
This kind of appeal to authority only works on people who are not willing to seek out the source documents on which the claims are made. So Pointman, yes the story would be easier to read as all text, but factual backup is also needed and my judgement was that inline charts would get the point across faster.
Kevin provides zero references to support his opinions and assertions.
“Hmm, the problem is the Earth should’ve been cooling due to natural forcings.”
Please explain? And also, if it can cool because of natural forcings why can’t it warm from natural forcings.
CO2 is your friend. You won’t be able to breathe without it.
Ha Martin, nice Mannscape…Guess you still live in 1998, your Mannscape was corrected for its ‘statistical’ incompetence a decade ago…
http://www.multi-science.co.uk/mcintyre-mckitrick.pdf
You climate nazis need a new mantra…’Love thy CO2’….
http://ajsonline.org/content/301/2/182.abstract
http://www.reddit.com/r/climateskeptics/comments/2k99z3/deniers_gonna_deny/
Good article, ‘despite’ the grammar of the first sentence:)
I dig the essence of the 97% vs. 99.7% graphic, but 99.7+0.5% doesn’t equal 100%, and people pick up on that right away.
The Astrology Branch in the Physics Department at every State U must be getting nervous about future public funding. Must be hard for the astrologers to see their sister branch of climate science soothsayer ‘projections’ not working out too well.