You might have noticed the blaring headlines of doom:
(Reuters) - The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday.
Of course, this alarmism lives in a computer projection of how things will be in the future. Not in reality. They rely on a theoretic CO2 cause-and-effect all out of proportion to reality.
So, how has that global warming phenomenon actually been going? There's a different headline for that, from the Wall Street Journal:
Global Warming Models Are Wrong Again
Hm. We seem to have a disagreement. The alarmists use their computer to tell us scary projections that they say will occur in the future. What's the basis for the Journal's headline?
Let's ask William Happer, a professor of physics at Princeton.
Says Happer (emphasis ours): "What is happening to global temperatures in reality? The answer is: almost nothing for more than 10 years. Monthly values of the global temperature anomaly of the lower atmosphere, compiled at the University of Alabama from NASA satellite data, can be found at the website http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/. The latest (February 2012) monthly global temperature anomaly for the lower atmosphere was minus 0.12 degrees Celsius, slightly less than the average since the satellite record of temperatures began in 1979."
Ah, but over the long haul, isn't the earth getting warmer?
"There has indeed been some warming, perhaps about 0.8 degrees Celsius, since the end of the so-called Little Ice Age in the early 1800s," he says.
Little Ice Age? You mean we are coming out of the Little Ice Age? You mean the ice age that ended a century or so before SUVs hit the road?
Hm, wouldn't we expect to get a tad warmer as an ice age recedes? Yeah. And it amounts to less than a degree over almost 200 years.
Here's a test: set your thermostat. Take in the temperature. Now change your thermostate 0.8 degrees Celcius. see you if notice a difference. Now imagine that imperceptible change occurring gradually over 150 or 200 years.
Yeah, not too alarming, is it?
We've heard the criticisms that vast percentages of scientists believe man is contributing to global warming. Well, you can count Happer among them.
The question is, how much? At best, a fraction of a fraction of a degree. Obviously, we can't attribute the entire 0.8 degree increase over a century and a half to man.
But how about those soaring levels of CO2? Don't they ultimately spell doom?
Not exactly. CO2 has soared in the past 10 to 15 years. Temperatures, as Happer and satellites attest, have been essentially flat.
Anyone ready to scrap the engine of prosperity and sink your investments into windmills and solar panels?
Before you do, you might check this headline from Great Britain. That news story says:
"Is this finally proof we're NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study."
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