Could It Be? The Final Nail in the AGW Coffin?

Why can't the people who get paid to report the news find this stuff? I'm not even looking very hard.

Blogger Ace of Spades put me on to the link to what may be the final nail in the coffin of the AGW hypothesis: the computer models are wrong, and someone has figured out what the error is!

Hungarian atmospheric scientist Ferenc Miskolczi discovered that the climate models being used were based on a series of differential equations for modeling greenhouse gases originally derived in 1922 that made the assumption (to simplify the math) that the atmosphere was infinitely thick, which of course it isn't. So he did the logical thing -- he re-derived the equations including terms that described the actual thickness of the atmosphere. And guess what?

The new equations show that as CO2 concentrations go up, negative feedback forces kick in, limiting temperature rises and preventing any runaway global warming.

The new theory also predicts that greenhouse gas increases should result in small, but very rapid, temperature spikes, followed by much longer, slower periods of cooling -- exactly what the paleoclimatic record demonstrates, and what the actual data show appears to be happening right now.

The new model also accurately describes the witnessed global warming on Mars.

Dr. Miskolczi worked for NASA when he figured all this out. As one would expect in this politically correct nation, NASA refused to release the results, and he eventually published his findings in a Hungarian peer-reviewed scientific journal. When he resigned from NASA, his resignation letter stated, "Unfortunately my working relationship with my NASA supervisors eroded to a level that I am not able to tolerate. My idea of the freedom of science cannot coexist with the recent NASA practice of handling new climate change related scientific results."

Global warming advocates dismiss his theory in spite of his model's more accurate fit with the data, the paleoclimate record, and the warming on Mars. After all, the AGW model just can't be wrong. There's too much money already tied up in it.

I thought it would take a while to find the evidence to disprove the AGW hypothesis. It never occurred to me that the hypothesis could be that fundamentally flawed.

So the coffin is now nailed shut. But we've all seen enough vampire movies to know that it won't stay shut, at least for a long while, and that the monsters will continue to plague us for some time.

AGW and the (Foreign) Press

Once again I bring to your attention the increasing quantity of data and evidence that AGW is a crock of manure and that we may have much more dire things to worry about. And once again this information can only be found in news outlets located outside the USA, or by depending on information obtained from foreign sources.

An editorial in Investor's Business Daily (which I'm sure all of you subscribe to and read daily) reiterates the idea that I've introduced you to before -- that the sun is the driver of the climate and that it overpowers what little (if any) effect man-made CO2 has on temperature. But look closely at where the data are coming from: the Danish Meteorological Institute, Canada's National Research Council and Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Carleton University, Germany's Max Planck Institute of Solar Research, and a Russian astronomer. Where are the Americans? Cowed by the PC police, that's where.

The better piece comes from the the Australian News regarding a recent interview on Australian radio, revealing that both terrestrial and satellite data are showing that since 1998 the Earth has been cooling -- and that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, that mouth organ of the UN that is the main champion of the AGW cult) is very aware of this data! Of course, the statement is made that the meteorological community is "having trouble digesting the findings" since the data don't fit their beloved computer models, and as we all know, the computer models can't be wrong, can they?

I particularly like the second half of this Australian article, where it talks about the "implications" of the failure of the AGW hypothesis, focusing mainly on the political aspects. But right near the end, the article reveals that even in the foreign press, there is still politically correct censorship -- I mean editing. In republishing an essay from the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian paper The Age deleted the following statement:

What The Age decided to spare its readers was the following: "Well-meaning intellectual movements, from communism to post-structuralism, have a poor history of absorbing inconvenient fact or challenges to fundamental precepts. We should not ignore or suppress good indicators on the environment, though they have become extremely rare now.

Guess that assessment hit too close to home. It certainly hits too close to home in the USA. Only here, we don't see only the editorial musings of an essayist "edited". Here, the news media edits the facts as well. Thank God there are foreign media outlets that still allow for true freedom of the press. The First Amendment? That only limits the government from censoring the press. It doesn't say anything about censorship by liberal ideologues.

The End of the Fourth Interglacial Period?

I can't help myself. Just too much good stuff coming in too fast.

The Canadian National Post (gotta love those Canadians, not giving in to the AGW cultists like their "superior" brethren to the immediate south) has an article about the fact that the current Northern Hemisphere snow cover is at its greatest extent since 1966. It goes on to discuss new record low temperature readings and snowfall amounts in various parts of the world this winter. It mentions the apparent restoration of the Arctic ice cap (though they only started measuring it in 1972). Then a new theory accounting for the ice melt is reviewed, with the implication that such melting may be following a 40 year cycle. (And remember, the records started only in 1972, which is just 36 years ago.) It concludes with a brief mention of sunspot inactivity.

So the glaciers are reforming. Another Ice Age is on its way.

Not!

We are just seeing another side of the cycle. You know, the cycle where things, like for example temperature, go up, and then they go down.

If one were to assume that the downs indicate the coming of an ice age, you would be ridiculed. But when the cultists assume that the ups indicate the coming of a runaway global barbecue ("Earth on a spit!"), they are merely being prudent when they demand we implement draconian measures to try to prevent it (especially when such measures won't even slow it down).

Sounds like somebody believes in double standards here.

But then, the liberal left has always believed in double standards, one set for themselves and another for everybody else.

Give me a break.

AGW Indeed! More Like Heliogenic Climate Control

AGW zealots must be having a great deal of heartburn this winter. Not only has there been record snowfall amounts throughout the Midwest, but now come new reports that futher expose the folly that is AGW.

First comes a report from the Canadian Broadcast Company that the ice cap in the Arctic is expanding back to near normal levels, and that in some places the ice is actually getting thicker. Why? Because of the extended severe cold weather in the Arctic this year.

Also, recent observation of a virtual absence of sunspots for neary two years is making solar researchers uneasy. They feel this indicates some change in the internal workings of the sun. The last two times something like this was seen was in the 1650's and again in the late 1790's-1820's. Both instances presaged decreases in solar irradiation that caused global temperatures to drop; the second one caused what it now called the Little Ice Age. (And a local touch -- an astrophysicist gave a lecture at the University of Texas-Tyler -- yes, right here in Texas! -- saying pretty much the same thing, that the solar variability is the major driver of Earth's climate.)

During both of these periods of global cooling, much more human misery was caused than any AGW prophet of doom has so far predicted. Some of these solar researchers are concerned we are now heading for another such period (possibly as long as a century) of global cooling beginning before or at least by 2020.

I bring to your attention the following quote from the Investor Business Daily article quoted in the blog post I cited above:

As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth's climate over time has been the sun.

For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over the last 100 years.

R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University, says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales."

I thank Thomas Lifson for putting me on to the first of these reports, and Marc Sheppard for the second. Both posts were at a site called American Thinker that I just discovered and to which I will definitely be returning.

I also cannot say this any better than Mr. Sheppard did in his post, so I won't try:

The unremitting mulish refusal to accept the yellow dwarf star at the center of our solar system as the force that drives our climate and weather - despite all overwhelming correlating evidence -- is simply mind-boggling.

I Haven't Forgotten I Have a Medical Mind

No, I haven't forgotten that I have a medical mind, and that the original purpose of this blog was to discuss issues of somewhat medical matters. Looking back, I see that the last few posts are beginning to make this look like an anti-global warming screed. Rest assured, I shall be soon returning to more medical matters. It's just that when I run across more pieces of the ever accumulating piles of evidence of the absolute insanity of AGW, and I hear more and more of our political leaders falling into lockstep with the AGW zealots, promising to spend more and more of our tax dollars -- no, more importantly, my tax dollars -- on this foolishness..... Well, it just makes me want to go postal in a different direction.

So there will be more discussions of medical issues. I will get around to telling you why your medicines cost too much, hopefully before the elections in November so you'll be able to realize just how clueless most of our leaders and lawmakers are. I plan to take on the presidential candidates misguided proposals for "healthcare reform" (and not a single one of them says "healthcare financing reform"). And I may even be able to crow about another prophecy fulfilled, but I'm still waiting to see if my crystal ball is going to turn out to be cracked or not (hint: it's about the November election).

But I just Tivo'ed National Geographic Channel's Six Degrees Could Change the World and I'm sure it will be as juicy a target for ridicule as was Al Gore's An Inconvenient Election -- oops, sorry -- An Inconvenient Truth. And I just won't be able to resist.

Nothing is But Thinking Makes It So

AGW is a man-made crisis. Literally. It exists only in the minds of those people deluded with their own visions of man's grandeur. It does not exist in the real world. I am not alone thinking this.

The UN is having a conference in Bali to try to brainwash more of the world's population into believing this hogwash. However, a group of scientific skeptics is there promoting the idea of doing exactly nothing to fix the "problem". That's right, nothing. You see, the best solution to a non-existent problem is to ignore it.

I am there with them in spirit. Go, guys, go!