Chicago Tribune Acknowledges Current Decade Coolest Since 1930

You read that right, a leftist newspaper is publicly acknowledging flaws in the global warming scam.

August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century’s opening decade. There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That’s by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.

This summer’s highest reading to date has been just 91 degrees. That’s unusual. Since 1928, only one year—2000—has failed to record a higher warm-season temperature by Aug. 13. SOURCE

Where are the rising ocean levels? What about those drowning polar bears? Chicago actually cooler now – what a serious blow to those warning of a 4 degree (Celsius) rise in global temps.

Earth Likely to Warm 4-7 Degrees by 2100

BOULDER – There’s a nine out of ten chance that global average temperatures will rise 3-9 degrees Fahrenheit over the coming century, with a 4-7 degree increase most likely, according to a new probability analysis by scientists in the United States and England. The most likely projected increase is five times the one-degree temperature rise observed over the past century. As early as 2030 the planet is likely to heat up 1-2 degree, say the scientists. The study appears in the July 20 issue of the journal Science.

“We are assigning probabilities to long-term projections to aid policy makers in assessing the risks that might accompany various courses of action or nonaction,” says first author Tom Wigley of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “If all scenarios are believed to be equally likely, it’s difficult to plan.” NCAR’s primary sponsor is the National Science Foundation.

An estimated global warming range of 2.5-10.4 degree F was announced earlier this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), composed of hundreds of scientists around the world. But the likelihood that the earth’s temperature would warm only 2.5 degree or as much as 10.4 degree is very low, say NCAR’s Wigley and coauthor Sarah Raper of the University of East Anglia in England and the Alfred Wegener Institut for Polar and Marine Research in Germany.

Even warming of 4-7 degree F, however, is very large compared with the observed warming over the past century, they write. “Whether or not such rapid warming will occur . . . depends on actions taken to control climate change,” they continue. In arriving at their estimates, the scientists assumed that no policies would be implemented to curb climate change before 2100.

If a rapid warming and its expected impacts occur in the near future, even swift societal attempts at control would yield little immediate success, say the authors. “The climate’s inertia would lead to only a slow response to such efforts and guarantee that future warming would still be large,” they write.

New estimates of sulfur dioxide and other emissions, along with updated information on carbon storage, ocean circulation, radiation, and other components of the earth system have improved computer models of the earth’s climate and led the IPCC to both raise and widen its estimated range of global temperature increase. The latest range of 2.5-10.4 degree F is up significantly from the panel’s 1995 estimates of 1.4-6.3 degree.

In their analysis Wigley and Raper attempted to interpret the likelihood of the new estimates, taking into account the wide uncertainties about future human activities and the climate’s response to them. They identified the main sources of uncertainty and estimated the probability of their values falling within defined ranges. They then used these results to “drive” a simplified climate model and combined the various model results into probability ranges for temperature increases.

The National Science Foundation and the Electric Power Research Institute funded the study. NCAR is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of 66 universities offering Ph.D.s in atmospheric and related sciences.

Wigley and Raper used several mathematical procedures to arrive at a 90% likelihood that, over the period 1990-2100, the earth’s temperature will rise between 1.7 and 4.9 degrees Celsius, or 3 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit (right hand curve). The corresponding 1990-2030 range (left hand curve) is 0.5 to 1.2 degree Celsius, or 1 to 2 degrees Fahrenheit.

David Hosansky
UCAR Communications
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Telephone: (303) 497-8611
Fax: (303) 497-8610
E-mail: hosansky@ucar.edu

This page has subsequently been removed from the web. I was able to catch it as a cached page. It appeared on July 13, 2001.

So much for computer modeling. Remember, we as a people are supposed to trust “scientists” who base their predictions upon inaccurate computer modeling. These are the same models that they derive their 5 day forecasts from. When was the last time that the forecast said no rain on Thursday so you plan an out door activity and when Thursday arrived it rained so hard you wished that you had an ark?

The truth is people that these pinheads who want you to buy into their doomsday predictions of catastrophic climate change are getting wealthy off their ‘chicken little’ predictions. Global warming is a multi-billion dollar industry these days and YOU are funding it.

My friend Kender has a saying…

“Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups, especially on election day.”

No more is that evident than what happened in November of 2006 when the electorate of this nation elected leftards to control Congress. This was perceived by those newly enthroned libbys as a moratorium on leftist thought. Everything from immediate withdrawal from Iraq to impeachment of President George W. Bush was considered ‘the will of the people’.

It was YOU who elected to power the leadership of the 110th ‘Do Nothing’ Congress. And their new Speaker of the House, Nancy ‘I’m trying to save the planet’ Pelosi, is on a Don Quixote type of crusade to save a planet that will be here as it has been for billions of years for billions of years to come. It is her quest that led to the abrupt recessing of the House so she could go out and pimp a terribly poor book rather than voting on a bill that would open up domestic oil production and a pathway to energy independence.

She fears an up or down vote on drilling because the people of this nation have spoken and she heard their call. 75% of Americans want domestic oil production opened up and that doesn’t fit into her quest to ’save the planet’.

So she declared herself Empress of the House, ordered it shuddered and left on her book tour. Now she seems to be balking. We’ll see if the moratorium is allowed to expire come October.

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