Fighting the global warming religion... Here’s just some of the most egregious errors or misleading claims. Climate change is global warming. The two are the same thing. It is the world getting hotter. False.... Climate change is, exactly that - a change in the climate. Hotter, colder, wetter, drier. Indeed, warmists now prefer the term Climate Change to Global Warming precisely so they can claim that unusual cold or unusual snow is evidence of man-made “climate change” as well. If by “climate change” we meant only “global warming”, then why not use the phrase “global warming”? No one doubts it is happening. The last decade, 2000 to 2010, was the hottest on record. The big controversy is about what is causing it. False. In fact, the biggest controversy right now is the one even the latest IPCC report had to address: why the world hasn’t warmed as the climate models predicted. Atmospheric temperatures have remained flat for at least 15 years. After that there are many other controversies: what, yes, did cause any warming we saw; why haven’t we seen the predicted disasters that warming was meant to trigger; is any warming actually good; is any warming likely to be swamped by natural factors; and is it worth the pain to try to stop any warming. Warming up the planet is like knocking over the first domino. It has massive knock-on consequences which can affect all of us. The big one is food security. A rapidly warming climate will make some places wetter and others drier. This could affect the quality and quantity of available food on the table of every single person on the planet. Sheer alarmism. Fact is that extra carbon dioxide means more plant food, and moderate warming means more rain overall. That, plus advances in gene technology and agricultural practices, have lead to record global harvests of food crops. And sceptics have plenty of questions: What if the solar flares make the world hot? Doesn’t the climate always change? Isn’t it a good thing? Actually, these are not the most pressing questions from sceptics at all. The main questions are the ones I’ve already listed and the IPCC struggles to explain: why there’s been far less warming than predicted and fewer climate disasters than predicted; and does it make any sense to spend trillions of dollars for such little effect on the temperature? But you do need to know one small statistic: 95 per cent. That’s how certain the United Nations climate science panel is that climate change is manmade. Here’s a more important statistic: 73. That’s the number of climate models which unanimously predicted more warming than we actually got. Seems this UN panel is more certain the more wrong its models prove to be. By 2070, Australia is expected to warm between 1.0 to 5 degrees Celsius, according to the CSIRO. In fact, even the IPCC, an alarmist group, estimates lower rises in global temperature - between 0.3 and 4.8 degrees by 2100. And that’s after almost zero rise in temperatures after 15 years. But heatwaves and predicted drier conditions in southern Australia can help create the conditions where bushfires are more likely to happen, heatwave expert Sarah Perkins told news.au. In fact, rainfall in southern Australia has, if anything, increased over the past century and even the Climate Commission denied there was anything unusual in rainfall patterns in southern or eastern Australia. On average the nation will experience a 300-fold increase in “flooding events” by the year 2100, according to a report released by Australia’s Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. That means one-in-a-hundred year floods will become considerably more common. That figure is what would happen if the country experiences an average sea level rise of half a metre. In fact, if we get many one-in-a-hundred year floods this century, they aren’t one-in-a-hundred year floods at all. Nor are such floods likely to be severe. Even the alarmist IPCC now predicts median sea level rises by the end of this century of between just 26cms and 30cms. We are actually lucky compared to the poor folk of the small nation of Tuvalu, found halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It’s easily one of the countries that will suffer the most. Much of the country could be flooded. In fact, the main island of Tuvalu is growing, not drowning, and coral atolls tend to rise with rising seas. The global average sea level could rise by a metre by the end of the century if emissions remain high. If they are lower, levels could rise between 28cm and 60cm. An exaggeration. The latest IPCC report concedes the median sea level rises tipped under its four scenarios for 2100 are between just 26cms and 30cms, with a very upper limit of 82cms under the most alarming scenario. Look, there’s more I should tackle - about “more acidic” oceans and the like. But you get the picture. And remember... this is just a standard piece of alarmism of the kind the media pumps out almost every day.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:18:40 +0000
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