Tuesday, 29 September 2009

The Global Warming Joke

I find it embarrassing that the news media and people in academia still insist that global warming is taking place.

There's little doubt climate is getting warmer across the globe, and all it takes is a look at history to prove it, said a British professor who spoke at the IdeaFestival Thursday.

“It's not just an academic question,” said Chris Turney. “It's getting warmer. It's actually happening on the ground.”

Are these people serious? We are looking at the coldest winter in a Decade. That will be the 11th year in a row of cooling temperatures. Not exactly the upward trend that was promised by run-a-way global warming advocates. Heck I know this has been one of the coldest years in Louisville in a long time. The summer was exceptionally mild. But with the mounting evidence against global warming, these hucksters continue to ply their wares.

During Turney's hourlong talk at the IdeaFestival, being held through Saturday at the Kentucky Center, Turney pointed to historic data to show how temperatures have slowly risen over time....
....Climate data only goes back to about 1880, but by looking at other sources, such as journals and artwork, some information about weather and climate can be extrapolated. But beyond that, scientists must tease out information.

Ahh yes, the "hockey stick" graph. Well this evidence that he is pimping may not be very solid after all.

The graph above shows what happens to the “Hockey Stick” after additional tree ring data, recently released (after a long and protracted fight over data access) is added to the analysis of Hadley’s archived tree ring data in Yamal, Russia.
All of the sudden, it isn’t the “hottest period in 2000 years” anymore.

Oops. Turns out that the "hockey stick" very well could be the result of cherry picked data. The more we learn about "global warming" the more we are coming to understand that is a MYTH. And yet, the left clamors for more and more regulation to stop "global warming". When in reality all they want to do is destroy capitalism. Don't believe me? Check out cap-n-trade. It will cost the average family $1700 a year. It will put the breaks on much of the economy and destroy numerous industries. Lucky for us, the horse they are riding, global warming, isn't very healthy. In fact is is quite sickly. As evidence against it continues to mount, it will be very easy to ignore their shrill calls for economic suicide.

We are fortunate that we are able to disprove this academic garbage before real damage could have been inflicted on our economy and way of life.