U.S. Media Ignoring About Face by Leading Global Warming Proponent

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Imagine if the Pope suddenly announced that the Catholic Church  had been wrong for centuries about prohibiting priests from marrying. Would that be considered big news?

Of course.

And yet something like that has happened in the field of global warming in which a major scientist has announced that the world, in contrast to his previous belief, is actually cooling.

This was the analogy made by columnist Lorne Gunter in the Calgary Herald:

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Imagine if Pope Benedict gave a speech saying the Catholic Church has had it wrong all these centuries; there is no reason priests shouldn't marry. That might generate the odd headline, no?

...When a leading proponent for one point of view suddenly starts batting for the other side, it's usually newsworthy.

So why was a speech last week by Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute not given more prominence?

Latif is one of the leading climate modellers in the world. He is the recipient of several international climate-study prizes and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has contributed significantly to the IPCC's last two five-year reports that have stated unequivocally that man-made greenhouse emissions are causing the planet to warm dangerously.

Yet last week in Geneva, at the UN's World Climate Conference--an annual gathering of the so-called "scientific consensus" on man-made climate change --Latif conceded the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering "one or even two decades during which temperatures cool."

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The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man-made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.

But as Latif pointed out, the Atlantic, and particularly the North Atlantic, has been cooling instead. And it looks set to continue a cooling phase for 10 to 20 more years.

"How much?" he wondered before the assembled delegates. "The jury is still out."

But it is increasingly clear that global warming is on hiatus for the time being. And that is not what the UN, the alarmist scientists or environmentalists predicted. For the past dozen years, since the Kyoto accords were signed in 1997, it has been beaten into our heads with the force and repetition of the rowing drum on a slave galley that the Earth is warming and will continue to warm rapidly through this century until we reach deadly temperatures around 2100.

While they deny it now, the facts to the contrary are staring them in the face: None of the alarmist drummers ever predicted anything like a 30-year pause in their apocalyptic scenario.

How have Latif and other global warming scientists reconciled their previous belief in global warming with the inconvenient truth staring them in the face? Many claim that global warming will resume after this global cooling phase:

Latif says he expects warming to resume in 2020 or 2030.

In the past year, two other groups of scientists--one in Germany, the second in the United States--have come to the same conclusion: Warming is on hold, likely because of a cooling of the Earth's upper oceans, but it will resume.

But how is that knowable? How can Latif and the others state with certainty that after this long and unforeseen cooling, dangerous man-made heating will resume? They failed to observe the current cooling for years after it had begun, how then can their predictions for the resumption of dangerous warming be trusted?

So are these the isolated opinions of a Canadian columnist? Nope. A BBC blogger, Tom Feilden, also made similar observations:

The global warming narrative - that mankind's addiction to burning fossil fuels is rapidly changing the climate - may be about to go seriously off message.

Far from suggesting the planet will get warmer, one of the world's leading climate modellers says the latest data indicates we could be in for a significant period of steady temperatures and possibly even a little global cooling.

Professor Mojib Latif, from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany, has been looking at the influence of cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation. When he factored these natural fluctuations into his global climate model, professor Latif found the results would bring the remorseless rise in average global temperatures to an abrupt halt.

 "The strong warming effect that we experienced during the last decades will be interrupted. Temperatures will be more or less steady for some years, and thereafter will pickup again and continue to warm".

With apologies to Al Gore, professor Latif's finding is something of an "inconvenient truth" for the global warming debate. 

Feilden provides a reason why Latif's finding is currently being ignored by most of the media:

But the complex message professor Latif's research confronts us with, points up another issue debated on the programme this morning: The thorny issue of the media's handling of science.

The Science Minister Lord Drayson sparked a row when he claimed that the coverage of scientific issues was in rude health at the World Conference of Science journalists. Ben Goldacre, the author of "Bad Science" took exception, arguing that most editors were only interested in revolutionary cures for cancer, or whether coffee made you fat.

And most members of the MSM in the United States are interested only in viewpoints that conform with the global warming dogma that they have been strongly promoting for the past few years. No inconenient truths allowed that would saw off the limb they went out on.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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Far from suggesting the

Far from suggesting the planet will get warmer, one of the world's leading climate modellers says the latest data indicates we could be in for a significant period of steady temperatures and possibly even a little global cooling.

  Somewhere Carl Rove is sitting at his weather machine laughing hysterically.

And another feather in the

And another feather in the cap of the Nobel Prize Committee!

/sarc off

 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

The Gig Is UP

MIT professor Richard Lindzen has statistically proven that IPCC models over estimate CO2 sensitivity by sixfold.

Interesting read.  So when

Interesting read.  So when is the Nobel Committee going to demand that Al "ManBearPig" Gore give back his Nobel prize?  Or, for that matter, give back all the money he's conned out of people?

Debunking Global Warming

Heat rises guys. Water evaporates and cools,

QED.

too typical

Oh, there go the Cool Earthers again.  Them and their silly denials and complaints.  It's obvious why the MSM isn't giving this press:  It's because of global warmi... D'OH!

Ok... Here's the plan...

Prof. Mojib Latif goes 'under the bus'.  We'll cook up some lunacy thing, or maybe a nice imaginary sex scandal and discredit him as a human being.

Then, since his name is foreign and middle-east-sounding, this is obviously fomented by the joooooooos.

Now, we need to get a racism angle in here as quick as possible.

C'mon people!  Let's hustle! The Goracle needs a new pair of shoes!

 

 

            The

            The governments of the world have found another way to scam the people out of more money. Our country is the one leading the charge for global warming. They think we are simple minded. They give our money to Acorn, then tell us we have no money for healthcare. All the special intrest groups are getting rich, while we loose our jobs. They give us food stamps, while they dine on the best the country has to offer. If we complain, they call us racists. If we protest they call us rude names. The media is just as much to blame, if not more, for the whole mess. If we survive this year, we will have a chance to get our country back in 2010 & 2012. Let's put them all in the employment line, including the media......                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

So how is this going to

So how is this going to affect the price of my carbon credits?

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Carbon Credit Bailouts

You're Credits with drop in value, of course.  This will lead to a massive sell off of those Credits, further reducing their value and leading to a Carbon Bubble Collapse.  You better sign up for your share of the Federal Carbon Credit Bailout Fund today or you'll miss out. 

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

That would be a whole lot funnier....

...If it didn't strike so dead-on the truth.

Attaboy C-man

 

I can see the headlines

I can see the headlines of the WSJ:  CO2 Bubble Pops!  Massive deflation predicted!

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

Thats funny

 "Co2 Bubble Pops!" That's clever :)

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

POP ! So does your carbon credits

Carbon offsets like the tulip CRAZE is falling of a cliff.

Here is another 79 BILLION DOLLAR taxpayer funded, DUD!

While the ICE builds up, today...

Hay here is a prediction, NO more Hurricanes ( + 3) this year!

Welcome to  fall , where the nights last longer than the days.

Hawaii already has had a "winter storm" surge with waves hights +15 feet.

Colder this year, and maybe less snow.

Stock up on food.

 

State controlled health care is Tort Reform.

Resume? Or return?

If the world is cooling, as they say, then that's a reversal of Global  Warming.  So how can Global Warming resume in 20 to 30 years?  It can't resume, it can only return, which makes it a cyclic phenomenon and not a man-made anomaly.

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

To the

"True Believers" of this AGW hoax it won't matter because in the end this isn't about science but an ideological/political movement disguised as science. The only thing different is the former Red is now Green. Most of us regular folks aren't scientists but what I have picked up on my radar is the extreme political content to this "movement" which advocates governmental "control" of resources and peoples behaviors all in the name of some phantom apocalyptic vision. An amalgam of Gaia worship, New age idiocy, extreme environmental politics, plain old ignorance and Marxist/Socialist/Communism ideology. A vile poisonous stew (brew?). 

As an aside yesterdays weather forecast for the DC area for the next five days was rainy and cloudiness. Now it has changed to mostly sunny for the next five days. If they cant get the weather forecast right 24 hours in advance how can anyone with any confidence tell us what the climate will be in 50 years? Just sayin'

 

"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'

Sad state of affairs

U.S. Media = Pravda on steroids.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Global nothing

 Meanwhile, the Gores of this world still scream that they are sophisticated enough to be able to discern the complex system which is the weather.  "Political science" gets in the way of the reality.  Professor Latif is at least honest enough to admit that the data lead to the conclusion instead of the other way around.

BOR There?

I wonder if this message is clear and unequivocal enough to penetrate Bill O'Reilly's thick skull....

It's the speculators fault!!

He will say.. lol

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

just covering the bases

You know this will all come down to the "fact" that natural cooling is just masking the "horrible", "deadly", (etc., etc.) AGW and that as soon as the short term variation switches back to 'normal' we're all going to die.... unless you give me the money (of course).

 

Did they mention the

Did they mention the Pacific Decadinal Oscillation? The warming trend at the end of the 20th century pretty much began when that shifted from it's cool phase to it's warm phase in the late 70's. Without it. Their so called warming wouldn't be there.

It's on cold again. And it's what 25-30 years for each phase. And about 50-60 years for the total cycle.

We have to save the world from nature.

HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. (Charles Gibson of the dead media.)

"Temperatures will be more

  • "Temperatures will be more or less steady for some years, and thereafter will pickup again and continue to warm".

Looks like he's reluctant to completely jump ship.

But the whole article could be boiled down to this:

"They failed to observe the current cooling for years after it had begun, how then can their predictions for the resumption of dangerous warming be trusted?"

Is the global cooling debate over?

"Many claim that global warming will resume after this global cooling phase:..."

Talk about "the many" stating the historically proven obvious occurance since records were kept.  But that would support your name change game from global warming to climate change.

But what is conveniently overlooked by "the many" is this anticipated 30 year period of cooling contradicts their claim that man (no faux sexism outrage as yet from the left) is responsible for global warming.

If, as the alarmists claim, man is responsible for global warming based on their faulty theory that rising temperatures follow rising CO2 levels, why have temperatures fell over the past decade even though CO2 levels continued to rise in that same period of time?

Your mission alarmists...should you choose to accept it - Prove how man is equally responsible for global cooling.  Not to worry, there remains one other historically proven obvious you alarmists can count on.  Any man-induced climate change theories (read - global cooling) you throw out there will be equally championed by the establishment media.  It's as simple (and as brash) as saying Kyoto worked and you are on the threshold (a few more billions in tax dollars should seal the deal) of saving humanity from itself.

tragic typo

I think that quote came from an article about Manny Ramirez.  It meant to say "Manny claims that global warming will resume after this global cooling phase..."  Sorry for the confusion.

If The Party tells you that

If The Party tells you that two and two make five, then it is so. To say otherwise is thought crime.  You will all report to the Ministry of Love for instruction.

Why is it that we expect or require a disconfirmation...

Why is it that we expect or require a disconfirmation of what most of us have known all along? This Leftist nonsense is a lot like the millennial groups who prepare for the end of time. Of course, it never comes, but they have prepared for it and acted as if it were true. Does the disconfirmation of AGW make our pal Al and is associates, Soros and Lewis less rich, or less powerful? Can we now expect less regulation from President Obama and his goon czars? I doubt it. They are all hell bent to tell us all how we must lead our lives and how much it's going to cost us. Until and unless we see them for what they are--despots who have been ever present in the history of mankind, this insanity will persist. I hope and pray that our people will move to stop them, but I'm a realist.

"Temperature will do

"Temperature will do something for a while, then, uh, it will do something else.  For how long, and exactly what, we don't know."

Now THAT would be intellectual honesty.   

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

"In Oceania at the present

"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."

- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 9

Global cooling

 Of course there is no mention of this in the MSM. Global cooling offers NOTHING to tax, NOTHING to demonize, and NOTHING to transfer wealth.

Total, complete, utter, and sewer-smelling hypocricy.

_________________________________________

"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert A. Heinlein

He has`nt changed his mind.

He has`nt changed his mind. He said we may be headed for a brief cooling period, but then the warming will increase again.

cooling

Why didn't the models predict the last 10 years of cooling?

Why didn't the predict the carbon exchange would drop from 7 dollars to 20 cents?

Remember Joe Romm on Climate Progress works for Joe Podesta, an ACORN board member.   This "green" slime is about social justice.  Not about science

 

 

Professor Mumbo Jumbo from

Professor Mumbo Jumbo from Liebshitz U is full of it.  First he tells us that there hasn't been any global warming for a decade - duh!  Then, he tells us that global goblygook will stop warming for a couple of decades and then, "resume" after that.  Yeah, I believe him . . .

What kind of ganga are they smoking at the UN?  It must be the same dope that allows murdering thugs like Pajamatop from Iran to travel to the US and speak before the UN.

Hey, and our tax dollars pay for over a third of the UN's operating costs! 

Before it is too late, write, call, or e-mail your elected representatives and tell them to vote no on the cap and trade legislation. 

CO2 is Not a Pollutant!

He probably said that because the last ten thousand years have shown a pattern of gradual natural warming with a few lengthier periods of global cooling (e.g., the Little Ice Age from 1300-1850).  Comparisons of today's temperatures to the Little Ice Age are inherently misleading -- like comparing summer to fall. 

The bottom line is still that human activities and CO2 have had little impact on global warming.  Any "science" to the contrary is based purely on speculation.

An Important Correction about the Catholic Church

I appeciate that Mr. Gladnick was attempting to create an interesting analogy by hypothesizing as to the reaction if the Pope allowed Catholic priests to marry.  However, the analogy is incorrect.

The two-fold reality is that this is a matter of Church rule-making rather than doctrine and that there are thousands of married Catholic priests already.  The Eastern Catholic churches almost all allowed married men to be ordained.  In the Western Church under the direct authority of the Pope, a significant number of Anglican and Lutheran men who have converted to Catholicism have been ordained as Catholic priests.  Widowers likewise may be ordained.  On rare occasions, married Catholics who promise not to have sexual relations with their wives have been ordained.

Thus, "accepting" the rule regarding an unmarried priesthood is not the same as "believing" in the global warming religion.

I Think AGW Has Stopped

I think AGW has stopped due to a newly discovered element.

"Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv) , has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons , which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mas s will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of morons promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons."

He He He

Some funny quantum ya got here

Wonder if hydro viewed this?

State controlled health care is Tort Reform.

Love it. Absolutely

Love it. Absolutely brilliant. A discovery worthy of a Nobel.

HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. (Charles Gibson of the dead media.)

Well done! This discovery

Well done! This discovery means we are on the verge of a new branch of science--nitwittology!

Best parody I've read in a long time. 

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Oh snap! The Rocky

Oh snap!

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy