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The Spectacle Blog
The UK’s Met(eorological) Office has released temperature data confirming the world has not warmed in the past 15 years. (h/t Global Warming Policy Foundation)
Why, 15 years ago is… 1997. Hey, that’s also the year the world agreed to the Kyoto Protocol to… halt catastrophic man-made global warming! Wow, that’s some super fast-acting global governance.
Of course, with the exception of chronically recessed Japan, Russia, and Canada, this treaty only covered Europe; and only a combination of the recession and buying “credits” from exempt countries like China, India, Brazil, South Korea, and so on allowed Europe to meet its promise. Not creation of a viable “clean energy economy.”
And global emissions, well, they went up. While temperatures fell well below what we could have achieved had we de-industrialized. According to the models. So, to recap, emissions at the upper regions of projections (even with the not-projected recession); temps well-below any reduction scenario.
So the theory, like the computer model projections on which the entire enterprise was premised (with the spit and tape of Malthusean dogma), is proved wrong. But, still, let’s declare victory and go home.
That is, if it really was about the climate. Which of course it wasn’t, given the same computer models acknowledged there would be no detectable climate impact even from perfect implementation of Kyoto, with emission reductions not “carbon credit trading” which allows BAU so long as covered countries transfer sufficient wealth.
But whatever one’s rationale, now seems like a good time to abandon the climate panic and its apparent real purpose, the thoroughly anti-prosperity agenda, and get on with putting things back together from amid the rubble of the same crowd’s other great ideas.
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bobmontgomery| 4.2.12 @ 11:25AM
Agree, Chris, but putting things back together means tearing down a lot of artificial things. The things that hindered national prosperity trickled down to the regions and the states and the localities. They implemented federal mandates and that became local law and they have to be included in the discussion. The multi-nationals will adjust, but the little guys need to have their shackles cut as well.
Buffalo| 4.2.12 @ 1:13PM
Come on now! What are you going to believe - the facts with real data or someone's made up computer program with massaged data to make the results match the desired outcome (it's just a trick, man!)? Remember that the man made computer climate simulation ignores or downplays water vapor, possible climate feedback (cloud formation), and the sun's varying output, the earth's "wobble" and orbit variations, etc, etc. Let's outlaw man-made climate simulations and we'll save billions if not trillions.
Bob| 4.2.12 @ 1:44PM
The past few weeks, even as snow storms blanketed the Pacific Northwest, all I heard about was record heat in the east, even though a few days later there were freeze warnings.
One thing I noticed was that a lot of these records stood for 100 years. I wondered if people back then panicked about global warming too, if they sought to rein in the unprecedented increase in prosperity that was happening 100 years ago by abandoning industrialization. Of course they didn't. And they didn't panic and decide not to start industrialization when the Little Ice Age ended in the 1850s. After the Little Ice Age ended they didn't need to worry about their crops dying off. They could extend the growing season. They could grow more food. They could do more with industrialization. Everything became more plentiful. Quality of life in the industrialized nations were much better than they would have been if industrialization never happened or if Marx's dream of an agrarian egalitarian world were realized.
There are millions and millions of years of climate history, and "scientists" only take data from the past 150 years to proclaim a global warming crisis. There is no such crisis. It's just the natural climate cycle that has been going on for eons. And one thing's for sure: warm weather is much, much more friendly to human civilization than cold weather.
Stan Redmond| 4.2.12 @ 1:44PM
This is of course caused by Global Warming.
Memo to: Chris Horner
Re: Global Warming
Dear Mr. Horner,
Global Warming is to now correctly be called Global Climate Change. Please update your records.
Thank you,
The Holy Goracle
Dai Alanye | 4.2.12 @ 2:24PM
AND... there now is some proof the Medieval Warm Period was world-wide, not just affecting the North Atlantic and Europe. But we skeptics already knew that, of course.
JP| 4.2.12 @ 4:57PM
The evidence has been in for over 20 years. See the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. It's waxing and wanning coincidentally mirror both the LIA and MWP, as well as the warming since 1690.
Rick LEDER| 4.2.12 @ 5:14PM
The Met office temperature data are available to look at with explanation (a somewhat dry but understandable video) at
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ne.....ut-updates
In this video, one can see the long-term trend upon which one arm of the science of global warming is based. No reference is made to other data such as ice cores, etc.; only from the Met office study. 15 years appears to be a rather short time on the time-line of global change. Your article appears to be focussed entirely on a particular year-to-year difference (15 years), likely an irrelevant abstraction from the dataset. Please be more careful in representing the data about which you are reporting!
Nick| 4.3.12 @ 2:10AM
Mr. Leder,
The data shows that while CO2 emissions increased for the past 15 years, the world mean temperature has not increased. You AGW Hoaxers said the opposite would happen.
You have been proven wrong. Increased CO2 emissions do not result in global warming.
Time to find a new hobby.
darkcycle| 4.2.12 @ 10:09PM
You are insane. That model is a fraud, and you are sentencing your grandchildren to a hellish dark age.
"The Recurring Dark Ages" Sing C. Chew
All the information you need is in the fossil pollen counts. To perpetuate your comfortable, profitable lifestyle and to salve your conscience you simply deny and manipulate the data.
"Anti-prosperity agenda" ...that's just offensive. Every one of you need to take off the willful blinders and wake up. You will not be able to isolate yourselves from this.
Nick| 4.3.12 @ 2:03AM
Go away, Chicken Little.
AWG is a Hoax!
Didn't you hear about the East Anglia e-mails?
Nick| 4.3.12 @ 2:11AM
Oops! That should be: "AGW is a Hoax!"
George S.| 4.3.12 @ 7:00AM
Horner's almost by-the-way implication about economic recessions was really quite good. That is, downturns seem to be the only effective way to curb emissions reliably. The US, though, has also achieved much in the past decades from billions of small energy efficiencies, especially in manufacturing.
In any case, this article was interesting because of the data links, and because the data source was the UK's Met Office, of all places.