The BBC has an article wondering what’s happened to global warming? It includes this:
It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.
I don’t know know who these “some” are that would say that. Is that a British thing? Do they actually say “hotting” instead of “heating”? Plus, it’s blasphemy. As we have asserted over and over, global warming climate change is settled Science! To imply that the cooling of the past decade is something scientists can’t easily explain is to speak slander against almighty Science! The past, present, and future is not unknown to us because we have computer models. Computer models made using Science! They did not see this cooling happening, so it is not happening. Science! is not some religion that can later be reinterpreted; it is right from the beginning and always right.
So says Science!, so say we all.
Note that the BBC says “what is causing global warming” not “whether global warming is happening”. So they still believe cooler temperatures are cause by global warming.
I was doing considerable “hotting” last night with my wood stove. As such, I was contributing to global cooling. That’s how it works, you see.
BTW, Frank, it’s not a coincidence that the public knows Jack Squat about thermodynamics and economics.
This is all easily explained, but I don’t expect you uneducated Rethuglican state-school troglodytes to get it.
Global Warming, caused by Americans eating meat and driving cars that get 18% poorer fuel economy than they should, has made the polar ice caps melt. This caused the oceans, the very well-spring of life, to cool. Since the oceans were cooler, that led to colder land temperatures and more snow. That made the polar ice caps grow to even greater size than before, which threatens the polar bears and penguins.
So you see, it’s all caused by George Bush. And a lack of physics education.
Lets see. some Scientists! talk about “climate change” and the computer models,but they never back up either assertion with fact or data. How were the models created, what are the parameters? Can the science! be reproduced? Why is it that all actual facts I have seen contradict the assertion of Co2 causing warming? why do most actual climatologist produce facts that contradict the ipcc? hmmm? could it be that climate change is a hoax by the leftist to wrestle control of our economy so that the trees can be hugged to the level of gods? Or is it because algore’s house isn’t big enough?
that’s why i chose math over science. I like proofs and not speculations.
You have to understand that we’re in the heating era after the last forecasted Coming Ice Age by none of than Al Gore advisor Stephen Schneider. Someone pulled the old tapes of Nimoy’s In Search of and found Schneider. Gotta go where the $$$ are.
Is that why Britain is having a garage sale? To pawn off the Chunnel before it is swamped by the Scary Oceans Of Death?
The debate – and cooling over much of the globe this past year – allow Al Gore to continue heating his home to the tune of $5K a month in good conscience. Note that last word: What a con some “science” can be.
So what will the scientists say in 100 years when everything they now believe is proven to be complete balls to the chin?
That today’s scientists were Ballchinians?
Most of the above comments (notably #’s 3 and 9) point up the need for some rudimentary education here. First of all, “science” is not the same as “Science!” If you can’t see the difference, you should immediately study Keynesian economics, put in for some Obama stimulus money from your local ACORN office to invest in Al Gore’s cap-and-trade schemes, get yourself a pair of glasses and read the book “Global Warming For Dummies”. Next, proceed to the nearest tree trunk and hug it while singing Kum Ba Ya while praying to Gaia. At that point, you’ll be prepared to understand Al Gore’s “Science!” (Hint: Science! is really all about economics and parting with your money.)
Science! is never wrong. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to pass out from a recent bleeding & leeching.
Whos, whoa, whoa. Didn’t you hear the Nobel laureate’s inauguration speech that Science is being put back in its proper place?
In other words, “science” like other “words” is just a construct that allows Democrats to do whatever the hell they want and for the rest of us to shut the hell up.
Science! is often wrong, because some “scientists” base their assertions on knee-jerk reactions and concensus, rather than fact, data, and reproducability.
Simply making an assertion ad nauseum does not make it true.
In a hundred years, hopefully the Nobel awards will be history, and BHO and ManBearPig will have asterisks by their names.
(* rescinded due to lack of substance)
How dare you neocons question science!? Science! has all the answers. Talkamata Gore will try you for your impudence! Now leave me alone. I must consult the Magic 8ball for better science!.
Do they actually say “hotting” instead of “heating”?
Yes, they do. At least some of them do. I can think of an example from a story by Saki (H. H. Munro).
Thought I’d do some research on that story. Its title is “The Hounds of Fate”, and you can find it here:
http://haytom.us/showarticle.php?id=39
I highly recommend Saki’s stories. Most of them are VERY short, and many of them are funny as can be, frequently in rather a nasty way. I particularly recommend “Sredni Vashtar”, “The Lumber-Room”, “The Story-Teller”, and “The Shartz-Metterklume Method”.
1st grade science!: fill a glass half way with water, mark the level, add 2 ice cubes, mark the new higher level. Come back in an hour and the level has gone DOWN, not up, there, I just disproved the whole ocean rising crap, where’s my Nobel Prize? Since when I went to school and the “science!” said we we weeks away from a new ice age….and that never happened…and none of the “scientists” ever publicly admitted they were W R O N G….it’s safe to say the new breed of “scientists” who don’t even know what I did in 1st grade, won’t either. I’m betting they’re going to say, “see?? our technique of destroying the economy to lower the temperature worked!!!”
PS: catalytic converters were a “solution” to the pollution of the 70s they convert the w/e to CO2! When am I going to hear the announcement that they must all be removed? If CO2 was really the “problem” then that would be the “solution”.
I highly recommend Saki’s stories. Most of them are VERY short
Holy crap. I thought you said they were VERY short. That thing you linked was like 2 pages long. That’s the equivalent of like 5 blog posts. Jeez man. You way overestimate our attention spans.
Cooler temperatures are caused by global warming! Wow , that’s great….it covers all the bases. It couldn’t have been phrased any better even by George Orwell the author of such timeless phrases as….WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH in his novel Nineteen Eighty four. Algore is a f**king genius and should make a fortune when we get Cap ‘n Trade shoved down our throats next year.
There’s a candidate for Mayor in Memphis who calls himself “Prince Mongo”.
He frequently appears in public barefoot and wearing a grass skirt.
He’s not crazy, just slightly ahead of the rest of us.
You can’t trust people that don’t even know the proper side of the road to drive on.
Real science is about observable truth, and not ‘blind faith’.
It is possible, however, to fool a great number of people with bullshit dressed up as science.
“Human-caused global warming” is as real as “Creation science” (Hint: both are bullshit)
The volume of ice per unit of mass is greater than the volume of water per unit of mass due to the Hydrogen bonding between molecules ‘lining up’ the molecules, kind of like how military units line up in formation an arms length from each other. Ice takes up ~109% the volume of water.
Ocean levels aren’t going to rise anytime soon. These Science!-tists are not taking into consideration the amount of volume of water vapor that the atmosphere will contain/hold if global warming due to natural causes ever occurs.
Computer nerds doing Science! ??? More likely to create Kelly LeBrock than predict the future accurately.
For the record, Science! cannot be wrong. If it is wrong, then it’s not Science!, it’s just a pretender, a fake, a charlatan, and worthy of our disdain and mockery.