Many eco-activists have mocked statements that President Donald Trump, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, and many others have made in the efforts to fight climate alarmist policies.
As I noted in a previous post, President Donald Trump understands enough about climate science to be highly skeptical of diverting millions of American dollars into the global bureaucracy. In fact, I asserted that he comprehended more real science that the climate change proponents.
Proof that I am correct (again) comes in the form of a paper in Nature Geoscience: Causes of differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates. Since this is a weighty article, I will cut to the chase and hit the highlights.
To start with, we need to cover 2 arguments against global warming that, when used, are derided by climate alarmists a not being “facts”. Legal Insurrection readers will recall my posts on:
1) The computer generated climate models are flawed.
2) Alarmist arguments that there has never been any hiatus in the increasing global temperatures.
Breitbart’s James Delingpole summarizes the critical statements in that paper and who made them:
The ‘Pause’ in global warming is real and the computer models predicting dramatically increased temperatures have failed.This is the shocking admission of a paper published this week in Nature Geoscience. It’s shocking because the paper’s lead author is none other than Ben Santer – one of the more vociferous and energetic alarmists exposed in the Climategate emails.According to the paper’s abstract: In the early twenty-first century, satellite-derived tropospheric warming trends were generally smaller than trends estimated from a large multi-model ensemble.And: We conclude that model overestimation of tropospheric warming in the early twenty-first century is partly due to systematic deficiencies in some of the post-2000 external forcings used in the model simulations.Translation: the real-world temperature increases were much smaller than our spiffy, expensive computer models predicted.
The fact that Ben Santer authored this piece is a fascinating development. He is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. His former place of employment was the center of the first “Climategate” scandal, in which hacked emails showed that the scientists were allegedly manipulating data that would have undermined their global warming assertions.
The Nature Geoscience article put statements made by climate change proponents in a whole, new light:
Santer recently co-authored a separate paper that purported to debunk statements EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt made that global warming had “leveled off.” But Santer’s paper only evaluated a selectively-edited and out-of-context portion of Pruitt’s statement by removing the term “hiatus.”Moreover, climate scientists mocked Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for talking about the global warming “hiatus” during a 2015 congressional hearing. Instead, activist scientists worked hard to airbrush the global warming slowdown from data records and advance media claim that it was a “myth.”Santer and Carl Mears, who operate the Remote Sensing System satellite temperature dataset, authored a lengthy blog post in 2016 critical of Cruz’s contention there was an 18-year “hiatus” in warming that climate models didn’t predict.They argued “examining one individual 18-year period is poor statistical practice, and of limited usefulness” when evaluating global warming.
Since we no longer have to worry about global warming, perhaps Southern Californians can enjoy the heatwave we are experiencing! Many were skiing these past few days in swimsuits and bikinis.
Skiers in bikini tops are showing up on California mountain slopes that could remain open into August. Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail must cross miles of deep snowfields that should have melted a month ago, some of them scrambling for their lives in the icy water of raging mountain streams….Some years that means hunting narrow strips of snow in shaded fissures. This year, whole peaks in the Sierra Nevada remain covered.
It appears that President Trump and his “alternative facts” are on the money, again!
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