Across a wide swath of issues, we see pride going before the fall. In today’s example, the UN has now officially admitted that its ridiculous claim about the Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035 was a “mistake,” as previewed earlier here at SHS. And that is the report that led to the IOCC receiving a Nobel Prize! Good grief. From the story:
The stunning admission is certain to embolden critics of the panel, already under fire over a separate scandal involving hacked e-mails last year. The 2007 report, which won the panel the Nobel Peace Prize, said that the probability of Himalayan glaciers “disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high”. It caused shock in Asia, where about two billion people depend on meltwater from Himalayan glaciers for their fresh water supplies during the dry seasons. It emerged last week that the prediction was based not on a consensus among climate change experts but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999.
That’s because global warming hysteria is as much about politics as science, and the glory is to be found in being hyperbolic–or a propagandist like Al Gore.
And now, our UN would-be overlords apparently no longer care about their own self imposed “deadline”–as in ONLY TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET!!!!! They’ve already waived the first action “requirement” under Copenhagen. From the story:
The timetable to reach a global deal to tackle climate change lay in tatters on Wednesday after the United Nations waived the first deadline of the process laid out at last month’s fractious Copenhagen summit. Nations agreed then to declare their emissions reduction targets by the end of this month. Developed countries would state their intended cuts by 2020: developing countries would outline how they would curb emissions growth. But Yvo de Boer, the UN’s senior climate change official, admitted the deadline had in effect been shelved.
Pardon my employing the extremely irritating cyber-acronym, but LOL.
January 21st, 2010 | 11:37 am
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January 21st, 2010 | 2:39 pm
They won a Nobel PEACE Prize – not a science Nobel. Hmmm, I recall Yassir also won one…
(and it’s the IPCC, not the International Orthodox Christian Charities… IOCC, “o” is next “p”, it’s all good, just want the folks to know)
I hope everyone is aware that this winter has been extremely warm in the Arctic. You guys are following the science and research, right? Right? You wouldn’t be going with gut emotions now, would you?
You guys are still aware that combustion of hydrocarbons from fossil fuels which are not in the carbon cycle releases CO2 into the carbon cycle. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that absorbs IR (heat). Further, the oceans love to soak up CO2, which then lowers the pH… not good. BUT, the oceans appear only able to absorb so much. We all live on Earth and affect the environment. (I realize many live in a fantasy land devoid of data and information, but still) You guys do know this, right?
You’re all reading Science, Nature, PNAS, Geophys. Research Letters, right?
You wouldn’t be ignorant, would you?
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009GL040613.shtml
January 21st, 2010 | 4:45 pm
David,
Today warming is not too bad, but climate scientists advise us that actions we take today (reducing carbon emissions) would likely prevent global warming over 2 degrees C by 2080. It would be unprecedented for humans to change behaviors today to avert environmental catastrophe more than 50 years out. Scientists, environmentalists and politicians must do a better job persuading others. But calling the ignorant ignorant doesn’t help. The key will be to find a way to help them understand.
That said, the grand brahmans of scientific illiteracy, i.e., Republican leaders, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity… use willful ignorance to manipulate their audiences. And they make a handsome living doing it. They may or may not understand the issue, but it’s in their financial interest to pretend they don’t.
January 21st, 2010 | 7:20 pm
Honestly David, do you even read the articles/studies/”data” for which you provide links? I’d bet money you just looked at the article title, or didn’t understand the contents of the abstract (I’m almost positive you didn’t run out and buy the article from GRL).
The 2009 Knorr study you cite indicates that the airborne fraction of CO2 has not increase over the last 50 years. Here’s how Science Daily describes it:
“ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase.
Many climate models also assume that the airborne fraction will increase. Because understanding of the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide is important for predicting future climate change, it is essential to have accurate knowledge of whether that fraction is changing or will change as emissions increase.
To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.
The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
How does this support your position of catastrophic AGW?
January 23rd, 2010 | 2:46 am
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