Below are a couple of extracts from articles in two of today’s quality broadsheets which may allow a little healthy scepticism to counter the ecofascist alarmism which colours the global warming debate, although, ‘he who would be a Scot by choice’ will no doubt lambast them because they come from ‘right wing rags funded by the oil industry fink tanks’.
The penultimate link directs you to a graph of global temperatures for the last 425,000 years. Interesting cycles from which one can draw one’s own conclusions.
The final link takes you to a lengthy article written by Prof Bob Carter, a geologist at James Cook University, Queensland, engaged in paleoclimate research . It’s entitled “There is a problem with global warming....it stopped in 1998.”
Ignore all of this if you find the discussion boring....employ the “ignore” button”. I have no wish to push these sceptical views on anyone who is totally happy with that which is fed us constantly by the warmists, but one does feel a need to balance the hysterical scare stories which assail us.
Le Fin
Long Franks (using the language of the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys by choice)
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Just a drop in the frozen ocean
Increasingly desperate to sustain their scare, as the evidence suggests otherwise, the global warmists have recently been focussing more and more on that vanishing Arctic ice.
The Independent recently cleared its front page to warn: "it seems unthinkable, but for the first time in history ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year". The latest horror story is the breaking up of two huge chunks of ice measuring "seven square miles".
Oddly enough, however, the latest ‘Just a drop in the frozen ocean’ satellite pictures (see the Watts Up With That website) show the North Pole still surrounded by six million square kilometres of ice, a million more than this time last year.
It is true that, back in May, the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre said it was "quite possible" that all Arctic sea ice might vanish this year. Now they are only predicting that the Arctic may be ice-free "by 2030".
It's really frustrating how that "end of the world" we were promised keeps on having to be postponed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main ... do0307.xml
Records kept by Nelson and Cook are shedding light on climate change
Britain's great seafaring tradition is to provide a unique insight into modern climate change, thanks to thousands of Royal Navy logbooks that have survived from the 17th century onwards.
The logbooks kept by every naval ship, ranging from Nelson’s Victory and Cook’s Endeavour down to the humblest frigate, are emerging as one of the world’s best sources for long-term weather data. The discovery has been made by a group of British academics and Met Office scientists who are seeking new ways to plot historic changes in climate.
“Ships’ officers recorded air pressure, wind strength, air and sea temperature and other weather conditions. From those records scientists can build a detailed picture of past weather and climate.”
A preliminary study of 6,000 logbooks has produced results that raise questions about climate change theories. One paper, published by Dr Dennis Wheeler, a Sunderland University geographer, in the journal The Holocene, details a surge in the frequency of summer storms over Britain in the 1680s and 1690s. Many scientists believe storms are a consequence of global warming, but these were the coldest decades of the so-called Little Ice Age that hit Europe from about 1600 to 1850.
Wheeler and his colleagues have since won European Union funding to extend this research to 1750. This shows that during the 1730s, Europe underwent a period of rapid warming similar to that recorded recently – and which must have had natural origins.
Hints of such changes are already known from British records, but Wheeler has found they affected much of the north Atlantic too, and he has traced some of the underlying weather systems that caused it. His research will be published in the journal Climatic Change.
The ships’ logs have also shed light on extreme weather events such as hurricanes. It is commonly believed that hurricanes form in the eastern Atlantic and track westwards, so scientists were shocked in 2005 when Hurricane Vince instead moved northeast to hit southern Spain and Portugal. Many interpreted this as a consequence of climate change; but Wheeler, along with colleagues at the University of Madrid, used old ships’ logs to show that this had also happened in 1842, when a hurricane followed the same trajectory into Andalusia.
The potential of Royal Navy ships’ logs to offer new insights into historic climate change was spotted by Wheeler after he began researching weather conditions during famous naval battles. Later, as global warming moved up the scientific agenda, he and others realised that the same data could shed light on historic climate change.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/e ... 449527.ece
http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch ... change.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main ... world.html
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