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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The new British Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd’s plan to win over prominent climate skeptics like Lord Lawson, by setting up a meeting between skeptics and the Royal Society, has dramatically backfired, after the Royal Society admitted that the pause would have to continue for another 50 years, before they admit they are wrong.
According to Breitbart;
“We pinned them down on this hiatus… they were arguing that yes, there might have been a hiatus, but warming might be going into the ocean, or it could be due to volcanic activity. So we asked at what point would you begin to accept there had been no warming. If there is no warming for five years, or ten years?
“Finally they conceded they would wait fifty years.
“We asked would that be fifty years from now, or fifty years from 1997, when the hiatus started? They said they wouldn’t change their mind for fifty years from now.
The bitterly cold ocean depths have the thermal capacity to absorb hundreds, maybe thousands of years of global warming, even at levels of global warming predicted by alarmist models. If the predicted heat is missing, because it is readily absorbed by the ocean depths, I would suggest claims by the Royal Society that global warming is an urgent problem are already untenable.
All it will take to end this charade is sea ice returning to the Arctic. The alarmists have made this their canary. If it significantly expands the scam will be over no matter what they may have claimed. Fact is, they will probably deny they were ever supporters.
This could happen in as little as 5-10 years.
They also claimed sea ice would decline in the Antarctic. It has grown instead, but the alarmists haven’t missed a beat. They are as shrill as ever.
But then they will quibble that the ice isn’t as thick as it used to be – say 100 years before anyone was up there to measure it.
Unfortunately for them, they don’t get to decide when people stop believing what they say.
1- Should be 42 years as this is the answer to life, the Universe and everything.( source Douglas Adams).
2- What legacy will they leave to their great-grandhildren , with their ancestors having run the family business of AGW theory, with no green taxes to wean their hungry future climate scientists? It’s worse then we thought. Those kids will never know what a grant cheque is.
The arrogance would embarrass a Spanish Inquisitor. He could point proudly to their record.
Ah! What Royal Glories these Devout Believers be!
The famed Royal Society is so mentally constipated they have become a society of dinosaurs. Fortunately the passing of the current generation in charge in a few years will probably change attitudes.
Can we get Tony Abbott the Australian PM on a transfer to clear all these troughers out
What the hell happened to common sense
There are probably better illustrations of the difference between a scientific opinion and a religious opinion but that one is pretty good.
If they feel that another 50 years of a pause in global warming (without the unscientific. thermodynamic laws being broken assumption that the “missing heat” has disappeared into the oceans) is a viable proposition; then their weakness was demonstrated,by stating that the hiatus “may” have occurred. The other warmunists are saying it hasn’t because they cherry picked the data, the Royal Society would not do or condone this, because they would be finished as a scientific body
.The logical answer is to do nothing, until global temperatures (as measured by satellites) start to rise again, whether this will happen or not is open to debate! I hope and invite the Royal Society to debate it!
Don’t include us 99% in that “we.”
Statements like this only serve to further alienate the public from science and bolster the natural climate variability belief. Making outrageous claims from a point of authority is catching up with the AGW pushers.
The guy who wrote “Who Moved My Cheese” can finally answer that question. The Royal Society wut dun it.
So…….What happened to the Warmers’ ’30 year’ Jibber-Jabber?? Must be they’re getting a bit nervous now that there has been a pause for almost 20 years….eh?
Sounds like a time lock on a safe. Ain’t opening any minds for 50 years.
How many model runs exibit 50+ year pauses?
Well, look on the bright side – 50 years from now is still 35 years before carbon will be entirely outlawed. Maybe those 35 years will suffice for the truth to filter down to the brainwashed political classes, and the decarbonization can be called off.
They have been lying from the start, their statements prove climate change is ideological not scientific. Lying, scheming types NEVER admit wrongdoing. I oppose them as much as possible at every opportunity.
It is not just that it is not getting warmer. GHGs, especially CO2 have been increasing in the absence of increasing temps, the correlation between temps and GHGs is not as the Global Warming Industry falsely advertised.
I’m a world-class procrastinator, but 50 years is outside even my bounds.
Not to mention my lifetime.
I think what they wanted to respond with was…”until hell freezes over.” We know that’s how they feel.
Steve Goddard was right all along and no one listened. Its probably too late now.
This whole lukewarm thing reminds me very much of Neville Chamberlain in 1938.
In other words, the old guard has to die away before new ideas can flourish.
“Royal Society: It will take another 50 years without warming, before we admit we were wrong”
And after 50 years they would say not before another 150 years. You see, they are not about science no matter you might think is their purpose. They are a faith based society and they always have been. There was no “golden age” when they were “good”. Science does not advance via “societies”, but rather one renegade at a time.
The CO2 scare will someday be laughed at by even schoolboys. One hopes they laugh at the Royal Society too.
~ Mark
50 more years of no warming will prove that government intervention worked and we need much, much more taxation and elitist control.