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.... Subsequent to publishing the feature ”The Fluid Envelope - A Case Against Climate Alarm“ by Dr. Richard Lindzen, we received an email from a science journalist questioning one of the central assertions in Lindzen’s report. The writer wanted to know on what basis Dr. Lindzen was claiming there has been no significant warming in the last 10+ years. In response, Lindzen emailed the following table, showing temperature trends for the last 27 years. This data is based on global (including over the ocean) average temperature readings per year, per altitude, as reported by the U.K.’s Hadley Climatic Research Unit:
As the data indicates, over the past two decades, temperatures have actually declined in the upper troposphere, even though there has been some minor upward trends in temperature at sea level and lower altitudes. This completely contradicts conventional global warming models. As Dr. Lindzen explained in his follow up email:“I used this data to show that the trend at 300 hPa was not about 2.5 x the surface trend which is what greenhouse warming [models] requires.” Apparently climate models that predict global warming ala increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 assume increasing temperature trends in the troposphere, where CO2 concentrates, and the reality is the troposphere is not getting hotter, it is getting cooler.
Before we radically rearrange the political economy of the world because some scientists claim anthropogenic CO2 is the cause of climate change, it might be worthwhile for anyone taking a position on the topic to consider whether or not this is indeed “well settled science.”
Thanks to Dennis Ambler for pointing out this website out to me - full of interesting articles.
Editor's Note: We have been publishing more material than ever on the
subject of climate change, for a very simple reason: The debate is not over as to
the cause, the eventual severity, nor the remedies for climate change. The
debate never was over, and for the mainstream press to have ever acceded to the
notion that debate was over, or to condone marginalizing anyone who continued
to debate, is one of the most eggregious examples of media bias in history.
One should think that given what is at stake - the reorganization of our
entire political and economic systems - debate would be welcomed. One would
think those who are calling for debate and discussion would be heralded as voices
of moderation and reason, instead of branded as ideological fanatics and
corporate shills.
The fact that debate is supposedly "over" regarding something for which the
remedy is so fundamentally and abruptly transformative should concern anyone
who claims to care about human rights, individual freedoms, free enterprise,
and an open society. The idea that anyone who questions global warming
alarmism is freely demonized should concern any student of history.
The solution - government control over virtually anything that emits a gas -
including CO2, which plants and trees require for their very survival - and
huge new taxes (perhaps disguised in the form of Wall Street friendly "cap
and trade" mechanisms, but the consumer still pays the freight), should concern
anyone who cares about representative government and values the concept of
private property. ..
Common sense would suggest we question the agenda of the global warming
alarmists who rely on fear and questionable science, not that of the skeptics. If
there is a "denial industry," who would benefit? A handful of underfunded
think tanks? If there is a hidden agenda, it is more likely coming from the
"alarm industry." Government agencies get more tax revenue, the United Nations
gets a revenue stream, insurance companies collect higher premiums,
corporations get more subsidies, small businesses get destroyed because they can't
afford to comply with the new regulations, and families everywhere pay punitive
prices for energy, water and land. Is this the future we want? Maybe, if all of
this AGW alarmism were true!
H/T The Devil for the graphic