Ten Reasons to be a Global Warming Skeptic
Posted by Jeff Id on March 8, 2009
If you think global warming is a hot topic now, just wait. The regulations coming along now have a cost and scope of massive proportion. We’re looking at the undoing of the very industries which only a hundred years ago freed us from animal powered travel. I’ve thought about it and here’s ten reasons why everyone should be a skeptic.
Some of these are less technical but even the serious scientist should be able to relate, #1 is a good example of the lack of complexity in the models.
#1 - Global warming is based on computer models of the atmosphere projecting temperatures out a hundred or more of years. Computer models are used to predict the daily weather as well. Can you tell us what your temperature at your home will be next month on the first Monday within 10 degrees……Celcius… Would you bet even one paycheck on it? How about the average for the week? Maybe but maybe not.
#2 - Global warming ’scientists’ like Hansen and MANY others regularly make extreme predictions of doom which are clearly beyond the result demonstrated by the data. How can claims of the ice free arctic be accepted when the ice level has reduced by only about 5-10%??. The sea ice varies by somewhere around 70% every single year.
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#3 - Temperatures have dropped or stayed flat for the last 10 years. This is absolutely in opposition to climate predictions of 10, 5, 3, 1 years ago. The earth has not followed the predictions of the climate models.
#4 - Almost no papers representing an alternative view have passed peer review despite the large number of scientists, meteorologists and even us engineers who don’t can’t seem to find the alleged proof can make it past the gauntlet of peer review.
#5 - Nearly all of the funding for pro-AGW science comes from world governments centralized around the UN.
#6 - Surface temperature measurements are amazingly inaccurate due to horrendous instrumentation and nearly one hundred percent non-existent quality control across the globe and even in the US. — It is interesting that the government scientists in the US with their half billion dollar budgets don’t call for better systems.
#7 - Surface temperature measurements show a substantially higher slope than satellite data over the most recent 30 year period. Corrections in the form of added slopes, to the surface stations are almost as large as the rising temp signal. — This is an important one to me because, the most manipulated datasets in papers and surface data always seem to favor AGW.
#8 - We don’t know what the global temperature was even 200 years ago. Without thermometers, we’re forced to rely on proxies which not only haven’t even been calibrated and haven’t been checked for linearity, but haven’t even been reasonably demonstrated to be related to temperature. How does this pass peer review?????? The Mann08 paper which showed flat historic temperatures was in my opinion intentionally created to trick people into thinking recent temperatures are unprecedented. The very fact that this passed peer review is to me proof of peer bias toward the global warming cause….or increased funding.
#9 - Nearly all of the remedies proposed by the very same scientists who predict global warming are directed toward cost and taxation. It is blatantly clear that carbon credits have absolutely no chance of even fractional reduction of CO2 emissions.
#10 - The only consensus that exists is between a small number of primarily government funded scientists. While they may be right, the rest of us higher paid, freer thinking yet apparently nowhere near as smart individuals haven’t been able to figure it out yet.
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I'd add that the fingerprint of AGW the IPCC models identified ... is missing in the real world. |
