Russ Steele
Bob Carter, a geologist and environmental scientist at James Cook University, Australia, is calling for a reassessment of the human-caused global warming, with the publication of yet another IPCC Assessment which keeps ratcheting up the global warming threat. Carter has an excellent article in the Sunday UK Sunday Telegraph explaining his rational.
Well worth your time to read, given the constant drum beat by the main stream press we are all doomed to a living hell on earth. If you desire an intelligent assessment of where we are, and the risk of increased CO2, read all of Carters article here. To pic you interest, several quotes and a graphic.
Public utterances by such prominent persons are marked by an utter ignorance of the important facts and uncertainties of climate science, as opposed to an easy familiarity with the repetitive climate propaganda furnished by NGOs and the U.N.’s Integovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Leading public figures, including Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Vice-President Al Gore, appear to be completely unaware of the foolishness of many of the policies that they espouse. As geologist Robert Giegengack recently told his students at the University of Pennsylvania “Every single one of you knows more about (global warming) than Al Gore”. But the knowledge of geology students, even if summed around the world, carries little influence and is not heard amongst a media hysteria that feeds off the views of celebrities and biased journalists. [emphasis added]
And the science:
However, our most accurate depiction of atmospheric temperature over the last 25 years comes from satellite measurements [see graphic] rather than from the likely warm-biased ground thermometer record. Once the effects of non-greenhouse warming (El Nino) and cooling (volcanic eruptions) events are discounted, these measurements indicate an absence of significant global warming since 1979, i.e. over the very period that human carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing rapidly. The satellite data signal not only the absence of substantial human-induced warming, by recording similar temperatures in 1980 and 2006, but also provide an empirical test of the greenhouse hypothesis as understood by the public - a test that the hypothesis fails. [emphasis added]
Graphic of satellite measured temperatures. Click for a larger image.
Carter continues:
It is that - despite the weekly promulgation of new alarmist headlines by notorious warmaholic journalists such as George Monbiot - in no case yet has any climate-sensitive environmental parameter been shown to be changing at a rate that exceeds its historic natural rate of change, let alone in a way that can be unequivocally associated with human causation. [emphasis added]
So, there you have it. Our current warming is part of a natural cycle and it will soon turn cold again, if it has not already started. Take a close look at the graphic from 2003 to 2006. The trend matchs the historial decline recored on the RAWS in the Sierra we have reported in earlier posts.
You can download a full text version here. This pdf has a picture of the machine use to measure the cores discussed in the first paragraph.
