Climate Change not so important

[BlasterBates]

Looks like climate change is going the way of "acid rain":

LABOHM: Climate change no longer scares Europe - Washington Times

In Germany they reran a radio talk show form the late 1980's about the impending environmental disaster, no trees left by 2020. Quite amusing looking back, especially as nearly 25 years later the forests I was driving through are actually bigger (according to the statistics) than they were back then.

I wonder if climate change is going the same way.

[sasguru]

Hmmm - that article manages to lose touch with reality almost immediately with



The warming has been measured, however over 15 years the trend calculation falls a few points shy of the 95% mark usually used as the benchmark for statistical significance. The first commenter notes



The same old, same old from a denier then. back in the real world we have a record-breaking globally warm year, a Government suporting the The Climate Change Act 2008, which made the UK the first country in the world to have a legally binding framework to cut carbon emissions, an Act that was passed 344-3, hardly an expression of a lack of concern.....

You do know you're debating a point with someone whose grasp of reality and numbers is so tenuous that he claims 40,000 people died of MRSA in Germany in a single year?
That still gives me a chuckle now and then.

[shaunbhoy]

a Government suporting the The Climate Change Act 2008, which made the UK the first country in the world to have a legally binding framework to cut carbon emissions, an Act that was passed 344-3, hardly an expression of a lack of concern.....

By Politicians. None of whom understand the first thing about the "science", but all of whom understand that if the Public can be duped, it opens the floodgates for punitive taxation on the back of this flawed nonsense.

[BlasterBates]

we have a record-breaking globally warm year

The trend however is clear



downwards

[BlasterBates]

and here is the latest:






You can forget the hottest year. There's a massive temperature drop going on.

[sasguru]

The trend however is clear



downwards

Those graphs show a general downward trend?

Should have gone to Specsavers.

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[BlasterBates]

and here is the HAD CRUT data

1998 was, is and will remain the hottest year.

1998 0.470 0.495 0.512 0.527 0.530 0.519 0.554 0.555 0.308 0.327 0.338 0.280 0.451
1998 66 66 67 64 66 64 65 65 64 64 64 65
1999 0.218 0.243 0.305 0.250 0.192 0.212 0.228 0.191 0.209 0.153 0.160 0.141 0.209
1999 65 65 65 64 64 63 64 66 65 66 65 66
2000 0.166 0.160 0.204 0.251 0.203 0.211 0.214 0.289 0.276 0.219 0.251 0.188 0.219
2000 68 68 66 65 64 63 63 65 63 64 64 66
2001 0.226 0.249 0.367 0.344 0.301 0.385 0.393 0.421 0.346 0.337 0.352 0.303 0.335
2001 65 66 66 65 64 64 65 67 65 66 65 66
2002 0.375 0.339 0.444 0.396 0.405 0.429 0.368 0.368 0.328 0.376 0.298 0.387 0.376
2002 67 67 67 66 65 64 64 66 65 66 67 67
2003 0.354 0.370 0.411 0.362 0.348 0.397 0.436 0.484 0.482 0.467 0.415 0.350 0.406
2003 66 67 67 66 65 65 66 67 67 66 67 68
2004 0.377 0.388 0.349 0.411 0.356 0.313 0.390 0.429 0.431 0.396 0.385 0.368 0.383
2004 67 67 67 66 66 66 65 68 67 66 67 68
2005 0.358 0.353 0.348 0.388 0.402 0.428 0.457 0.487 0.421 0.381 0.311 0.266 0.383
2005 67 68 67 65 66 66 67 68 68 67 67 68
2006 0.266 0.284 0.240 0.305 0.326 0.337 0.361 0.437 0.384 0.379 0.379 0.387 0.340
2006 68 68 69 67 67 68 68 68 69 69 67 69
2007 0.365 0.361 0.310 0.286 0.264 0.332 0.354 0.282 0.294 0.228 0.149 0.112 0.278
2007 68 68 69 68 67 67 68 69 69 68 69 70
2008 0.116 0.154 0.165 0.194 0.220 0.251 0.354 0.369 0.371 0.311 0.228 0.248 0.248
2008 68 70 71 69 68 69 70 70 70 70 69 69
2009 0.275 0.220 0.245 0.307 0.355 0.500 0.511 0.496 0.361 0.386 0.389 0.473 0.376
2009 69 69 69 68 68 68 68 70 69 69 69 69
2010 0.437 0.440 0.452 0.490 0.435 0.433 0.473 0.423 0.338 0.311 0.000 0.000 0.423
2010 69 70 69 69 68 70 70 71 70 69 0 0

[shaunbhoy]

1998 was, is and will remain the hottest year.

It might not look so clear-cut though BB, once sg and his hockeystick cavaliers have applied their government-sponsored fudge factor to the raw data.

[BlasterBates]

Those graphs show a general downward trend?

Should have gone to Specsavers.

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Don't believe me....ask Phil

“Global Temps Cooling Since Jan. 2002″ – Says Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA), « American Everyman

[Doggy Styles]

The most serious problem that needs to be addressed, as anyone with a bit of foresight understands, is population growth. If you don't arrest that, you can cut fossil fuel use by 50% per capita over 30 years and we'd still be using the same amount.

That's aside from all the other problems population growth is causing.

So I'd be happier if these scientists had a think about this instead, rather than p1ssing about round the edges of it.