I’m sure everyone is utterly shocked by the what the report claims, because the IPCC hasn’t been utterly alarmist for decades. It’s like putting Dawn Of The Dead in the DVD player and expecting…zombies
Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control.
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that periodically summarizes climate science, concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress, heat waves and heavy rains are intensifying, coral reefs are dying, and fish and many other creatures are migrating toward the poles or in some cases going extinct.
That’s from hyper-Alarmist Justin Gillis at the NY Times. CNN refuses to be outdone
Little time left to turn down the world’s heat, U.N. says
Your forecast for the next century: Hotter, drier and hungrier, and the chance to turn down the thermostat is slipping away.
That’s the latest conclusion from the United Nations, which urged governments to address the “increasingly clear” threats posed by a warming climate before some options are closed off for good. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that taking steps to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions blamed for rising temperatures could buy more time to adjust to a warmer world.
And the UK Independent
Washington Post
MSNBC
And it continues on and on, humorously, since these same news organizations, much less the UN IPCC, put out vasts amounts of “carbon pollution” in going about their own business. Perhaps if the UN IPCC did away with their own fossil fueled travel, especially for their yearly working vacations in nice spots around the world, they might be credible.
Jeff Dunetz asks the questions that always go through my head
- Why did the Earth stop warming 17 years ago? (WT-technically, the rise is statistically insignificant)
- The climate models used to predict global warming proved to be wrong, what makes the revised models more reliable?
- What makes the IPCC so sure the warming trend of the 1980s through the mid 199os and the warming stoppage ever since, aren’t simply part of the Earth’s natural climate cycles?
- Since global warming stopped over 17 years ago, why didn’t their doom and gloom predictions reveal themselves back then?
Let’s not forget, the models have been 95% wrong
As The Hockey Schtick notes in their header “If you can’t explain the ‘pause’, you can’t explain the cause…” Warmists try and explain away the pause, blaming it mostly on natural variability. So, why can’t the short warming spike from 1980 to about 1996 be mostly natural? The same as happened several times since the end of the Little Ice Age?
I’ll flog my meme once more: if Warmists are not concerned enough to change their own behavior, why should we believe them? This year, the UN Convention On Climate Change will hold a big conference in Bonn, Germany in June, followed by the big COP 20 (Conference on the Parties), held via teleconference, in order to make it as “carbon neutral” as possible. Just kidding. It will be held in the exotic vacation spot of Lima, Peru.
More: Lord Christopher Monckton (a name guaranteed to send Warmists into apoplexy, what is referred to scientifically as “Moonbat Level 10”) discusses the report, and offers this interesting graph
Now, Warmists will bleat out “cherry picked!!!!!!” But
Meanwhile, the discrepancy between prediction and observation continues to grow. Here is the IPCC’s predicted global warming trend since January 2005, taken from Fig. 11.25 of the Fifth Assessment Report, compared with the trend on the dataset of datasets since then. At present, the overshoot is equivalent to 2 Cº/century.
You can see Figure 11.25 here, from this page. We continue to see that the “model” prognostications have little to do with real world measurements. This in no way invalidates the notion that the Earth is currently in a warm period. What it does do is provide more evidence that blaming anthropogenic causes mostly/solely for warming at any time during the Modern Warm Period is foolish, unscientific, and wishful thinking, leading any rational thinking person to wonder exactly what the point of this whole exercise in Blamestorming and telling scary stories is.
