Wednesday, October 22, 2008

NASA scientist: CO2 not related to climate change

A funny thing happened on the way to the global-warming apocalypse: the earth started to get colder. Now the number of credentialed scientists debunking the notion of anthropogenic global warming is rising faster than the global temperature ever did. Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof in the National Post:

Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, says, "It's practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global cooling," as the sun enters a particularly inactive phase. His examination of warming and cooling trends over the past four centuries shows an "almost exact correlation" between climate fluctuations and solar energy received on Earth, while showing almost "no correlation at all with CO2."

An analytical chemist who works in spectroscopy and atmospheric sensing, Michael J. Myers of Hilton Head, S. C., declared, "Man-made global warming is junk science," explaining that worldwide manmade CO2 emission each year "equals about 0.0168% of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration ... This results in a 0.00064% increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number."

Other international scientists have called the manmade warming theory a "hoax," a "fraud" and simply "not credible."

While not stooping to such name-calling, weather-satellite scientists David Douglass of the University of Rochester and John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville nonetheless dealt the True Believers a devastating blow last month.

For nearly 30 years, Professor Christy has been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily around the globe. In a paper co-written with Dr. Douglass, he concludes that while manmade emissions may be having a slight impact, "variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide."

Moreover, while the chart below was not produced by Douglass and Christy, it was produced using their data and it clearly shows that in the past four years -- the period corresponding to reduced solar activity -- all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has disappeared.
And here is the chart, click to enlarge.


See also, "Good news about global warming!" at Fabius Maximus, which gets the hat tip.

3 comments:

purerichard said...

Luckily, the warming has already regained about 20 years since earlier in the year when that graph stops. Al so, the trend line on the graph is grossly wrong.
http://www.citizenceo.com/index.php/archive/global-temperature-regains-20-years-of-lost-movement/

Roderick Reilly said...

If many ordinary people are able to discern that global warming is not happening in the upcoming years (especially if there are dramatic snowstorms and prolonged cold spells), it could be one of those major factors -- along with finding out what really caused the financial markets collapse, that will have them feeling utterly and thoroughly betrayed by the West's elites.

How their reations will unfold remains to be seen, but it won't be pretty.

Donald Sensing said...

"Luckily"? Really?