It was twenty years ago today: Cool
The thought occurs to me that putting Jim Hansen in jail in the event that he and st.algore are wrong would really do very little to cure the damage their CO2 hysteria has caused and is causing.
In other news, I got my $100.00 carbon tax rebate cheque from the BC Government today. I bought even more beer and popcorn and turned a light on in celebration. Sadly, the electricity is almost certainly hydro generated making my small gesture of defiance entirely pointless.
h/t sda
June 26th, 2008 at 8:23 am
I’m perfectly willing to be a climate-change skeptic – there’s no question the thing has all the earmarks of a liberal/progressive fraud – but I have to say I think there’s something in it.
I’ve got no scientific expertise, so it’s a bit like watching a heated debate in a foreign language: you don’t know exactly what they’re saying, but you can often tell who’s winning. I look at Climate Debate Daily (http://climatedebatedaily.com/) occasionally, and, even though I’m an instinctive contrarian and rooter-for-the-underdog, I get a strong whiff of failure and futility off the dissenters. There’s a certain style of argumentation people adopt when they’re defending a bad case, and that’s what I get off them. Yes, the consensus side is often dismissive and alarmist (at least 5 new climate menaces as week), but that doesn’t them wrong. So, yeah, I believe there’s something in it, though not as much as the alarmists claim.
Looking at your graph (and I’ve said this before), what I see is a lot of noise, but an underlying upward trend of about 0.15-0.20 degrees per decade. Take a look: how often does the line dip below
0.20 during 198897? Several times. During 1998-2008? Never. How often does the line go over +0.20 during 1988-97? Never. 1998-2008? Many times. We’re having a particularly cold year by recent standards (not so unusual by 1988-97 standards), but let’s see how long that lasts.