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Bishop Hill Fred on Foster and deFreitas
Jun 30, 2010 Climate: CA Climate: CRU Climate: Curry Climate: Mann Climate: RC Fred Pearce in New Scientist looks at some recent developments in the ongoing battle between Tamino and the Hockey Team on the one side and sceptics deFreitas and McLean on the other. Judy Curry gets quoted.
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We can conclude that between 15% and 67% of the recent warming was due to a natural event, El Ninos.
That in itself undermines the 'consensus' that ALL the recent warming was due to an increase in man-made CO2 emissions.
Considering the planet has recently cooled over the past 10 years, a hiatus, and is now expected to continue to cool for the next 20 or so years, we can be a lot more confident that the 67% figure is more likely to be closer to what is happening to our planet's climate - i.e. natural warming (and cooling) greatly over-riding any contribution from man.
Abandoning a natural theory of climate in which man plays a small part for a faith, based on the inherent evil of mankind, was probably the most stupidest thing science has ever done.
It is time to reinstate reason over superstition.
Joe Bastardi is predicting another very cold winter, and possibly winters to come.
Would it be smart to invest some money in long johns?
http://www.accuweather.com/world-bastardi-europe-blog.asp
"stolen e-mails" -- the moment I read that the journalist's credibility vanishes.
It would be interesting to get Judith Curry's take on both the content and the non-publication of the McClean response to Foster et al. My cursory reading suggests that Foster et al's critique did not address the issue raised by McClean. More importantly, the second editior at AGU Atmoshperes has some explaining to do.
Tamino et al complain - "...especially as the analysis method itself eliminates the influence of trends on the purported correlations."
They really have no understanding of the concept of irony, do they.
Ref - June 30, 2010 | Mac
Long Johns? As long as they're wool and/or heavy cotton - oil based fabrics will soon be too expensive, besides they're not that warm anyway. And, it would probably be a good idea to put a little into Coal Mining stock; Towers of Babel tend to collapse under their own weight when the climate in the Northern Hemisphere turns cooler.
As Mac has pointed out, if just one source of natural warming accounts for 15%, 30% or 67% of the warming generally said to be due to CO2 increases, there is a big hole in the science and the AGW models are all wrong.
I could never understand how a few years back the warmistas suddenly decided that maybe half the warming was due to atmospheric soot particles rather than CO2, but they still insisted that the existing models and earlier predictions based on CO2 levels were correct.