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To: Brumar89 who wrote (764476)

1/18/2014 10:46:42 AM

From: Wharf Rat

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Denier Don Easterbrook and his mate Dismal David Deming are Delusional at WUWT
Sou | 1:27 AM

There are two articles up at WUWT today that falsely claim "it's cooling", when in fact the Earth continues to heat up. One by Denier Don Easterbrook and one by David Deming.

Deluded Denier Don Easterbrook
Denier Don put up a few of his wonky charts ( archived here), including this one that has appeared on HotWhopper before. Click to enlarge.

I don't know why he resurrected this old chart of his. It clearly shows that all his predictions have been a dismal failure. Observed temperatures are not that far from his "IPCC projected warming". And I don't know where he got his "IPCC projected warming" from either. Since he said he did the chart in 1999 or 2000, it should be from the Second Assessment Report (SAR). But I saw nothing like that chart in SAR.

Anyway, look at Don's projections. According to him global surface temperatures should have taken a big dive fourteen years ago. Instead, look at what has happened.

Data sources: JISAO and NASA

Like Don, I've compared global surface temperatures to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from Nate Mantua's website. Don reckons temperatures should be back at those of around 1980 now and heading for colder.

Denier Don wrote:
So the question now becomes how could my predictions be validated? Certainly not by any computer climate models, which had proven to be essentially worthless. The obvious answer is to check my predictions against what the climate does over several decades. We’ve been within my predicted cooling cycle for more than a decade, so what has happened? We’ve now experienced 17 years with no global warming (in fact, slight cooling) despite the IPCC prediction that we should now be ~1° F warmer (Figs. 6, 7, 8). So far my 1999 prediction seems to be on track and should last for another 20-25 years.On track? Just who does Don think he's kidding? In 1999 he predicted that by 2014, global surface temperature would be back to around that in 1980. Instead they are about 0.5 degrees warmer than 1980!

So Don, your predictions have already proven to be worthless.

Dismal David Deming is a big fat liar!
David Deming wrote a short article complaining about winter weather in the USA and asking where global warming has gone ( archived here). Remember he's a mate of Denier Don. David's article was stuffed with as much nonsense as Don's. For example, David Deming wrote:
Global warming is nowhere to be found. The mean global temperature has not risen in 17 years and has been slowly falling for approximately the past 10 years. In 2013, there were more record-low temperatures than record-high temperatures in the United States.Look again at the chart above. Where is his supposed cooling? Nowhere to be seen. Sure, the USA has been a bit cool the last few weeks. But no cooler than it was twenty years ago, going back only to the early 1990s. And in 2012 it had the hottest year ever on record. Other places are warming up too, obviously - looking at the surface temperature chart above. Here we I live we've been sweltering through another extreme heat wave with temperatures in the low 40s for almost a full week. And we've just had the hottest year on record plus broken a heap of other similar records all over the place. And it can't be blamed on ENSO - it's been neutral.
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