March 2009 was the coolest March in this centuryThe slightly longer story:
With the global anomaly of 0.47 °C, March 2009 is reported as the coldest March since 2000 - and colder than March 1990 and 1998. . . Also, the March 2009 global mean temperature differed by 0.03 °C only from the March 1981 figure . . . This cherry-picked monthly comparison would suggest that there may have been 0.03 °C of warming in 30 years.And there's more.
The Antarctic sea ice area anomaly is approximately +1.2 million squared kilometers (more ice than what is normal for the season), almost matching the peak reached in June 2008. Combined with a minor negative Northern sea ice area anomaly, the global sea ice area anomaly approaches huge +1.0 million squared kilometers.
Note the appearance of the plus sign [+], despite media scare-mongering about collapsing ice shelves in the Antarctic.
Meanwhile, Steve McIntyre summarises the tropospheric temperatures to March, which is where warmists' computer models say warming should exist. Short story here in this image:
Scary, huh?
Scary, huh?And finally (for the moment), Sydney warmist Paul Sheehan reads new book Heaven and Earth, and begins to reconsider his position.
What I am about to write questions much of what I have written in this space, in numerous columns, over the past five years. Perhaps what I have written can withstand this questioning. Perhaps not. The greater question is, am I - and you - capable of questioning our own orthodoxies and intellectual habits? Let's see.
The subject of this column is not small. It is a book entitled Heaven And Earth, which will be published tomorrow. It has been written by one of Australia's foremost Earth scientists, Professor Ian Plimer. He is a confronting sort of individual, polite but gruff, courteous but combative. He can write extremely well, and Heaven And Earth is a brilliantly argued book by someone not intimidated by hostile majorities or intellectual fashions. . .
Heaven And Earth is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence.
As Lubos puts it, it looks more and more like Mother Nature, the world's most unabashed denier of man-made climate change is going to have the final say. Are you honest enough to notice?
NB: Here's Ian Pilmer last year, making the argument that Environmentalism is a New Religion -- "a fundamentalism with a fear of nature."
6 comments:
Global warming is a common fraud. The trouble is that it doesn't matter how many times this is demonstrated, the imposts and costs it justifies are being imposed.
Another point. If ever there was a reason to ban government funding of science the global warming porn is it.
LGM
You say the costs are being imposed, but imagine what it would be like if people actually did take it seriously. In order to acheive the kind of drops in carbon emissions that they claim would be needed to make a difference, the size of the economy would need to be slashed by at least 80%. Let's be thankful that deep down almost nobody believes it, and are therefore only paying lip service to action.
Whether people believe it or not, the taxes will be imposed by politicians.
What really matters is whether we can effectively oppose them. And the truth alone obviously isn't enough to do that.
The book is called Heaven and Earth. (Not Heaven and Hell. Even the most rabid warmists don't think it will get that hot!) There is a review of the book here.
Oops. Thanks mate. Corrected now.
Thank goodness for blog commenters, eh. :-)
An AGW advocate who actually takes potential counter-evidence seriously? That's a first.
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