2008: The end of anthropogenic global warming

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2008: The end of anthropogenic global warming

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | Environment |

The (UK) Telegraph) - 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved:

Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.

Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a “scientific consensus” in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world’s most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that “consensus” which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions.

Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month’s Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and “environmentalists” gathered to plan next year’s “son of Kyoto” treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for “combating climate change” with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.

As the temperatures have gotten cooler the rhetoric has gotten hotter to compensate, but the cooling trend is abundantly clear to everyone this year. The recent cooling in both 2007 and 2008 correlates with decreased solar activity, bolstering the solar theory and contradicting greenhouse theory.

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2 Comments to 2008: The end of anthropogenic global warming

Lisa
January 1, 2009

It is weird how Iowa used to have major snow throughout most of the winter when I was a child. Through my adulthood we’d often see winters with just a couple of measurable snows and it saddened me that my son was not able to experience a “real” snow. The last two years have more than made up for that. You just never know what the weather will bring.

Was it George Carlin who said “Forecast for tonight: dark.”? He’s the only one who ever got it right.

Happy New Year to you and your ladies.

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