‘Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled
“Puzzled”? But AGW is the consensus view. So why the puzzlement?
…..Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says the lower than expected temperature rise between 2000 and the present could be explained by increased emissions from burning coal.
It could probably be explained by Hansen producing another fraudulent “hockey stick” graph, too. And if Hansen is right, where does that leave all the green morons campaigning against coal burning power stations? They ought to be delighted to have identified a way of slowing the killer warming.
….International Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri recently told The Weekend Australian the hiatus would have to last 30 to 40 years “at least” to break the long-term warming trend.
Really? Just a few years ago he was claiming that at least a dozen or so years of no rises was needed before they could draw any firm conclusions. Shifting goalposts is something of a habit with these dishonest pricks.
…..There are now a number of studies that predict future temperature rises as a result of man-made carbon dioxide emissions at well below the IPCC best estimate of about 3C over the century.
The upcoming IPCC report is expected to lift the maximum possible temperature increase to 6C…’
Double down on the lies and bullshit, guys–you may yet save your billions in grant money…
(via The Australian, subscription required)
UPDATE: ‘Thousands killed by the global warming scare’
the polls of late tell a story…the public dont believe no more
the evidence tells a empirical story…the theory has a flaw
the powers told the story…Big oil was the cause
the press sold the story…the fuckers didnt even pause
the rolls of late tell a story…the old feel it more
the evidence tells a empirical story…the theory has a flaw
the powers told the story…but a tempory pause
the press sold the story…the fuckers didnt even pause
the polls of late tell a story…the public dont matter no more
the evidence tells a empirical story…the theory has a flaw
the powers still hold the story…Big wind will save our cause
the press still sell the story…the fuckers dont even pause
Sorry for the poetry…but hey…i could give a 3 hour lecture to say the same thing..
besides its saturday…Corona in hand…and its pissin down.:-(
Wabbits like poetry.

I wish it was raining here, sbk. The monsoon failed and they’re trucking out cattle in their thousands. Endless sunny days around 37-40c.
We are finally getting rain here.
lucky bugger!
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/qld/nth-goldfields/richmond
been like that (but hotter) for months now.
@Oswald:
No problem with rain in the Great Northwest of America and Canada this year!
In fact, up here when the sun does come out, people stop on the streets of Seattle and point up at it and ask me: “Stranger, can you tell the name of the golden orb in yonder sky?”
Getting my raindance on now…a prayer for my Aussie Cuz’s…
asides…hope the heavens open up.
thanks, mate.
Rain dance?
No kiddin, when I lived in Florida back in the 1980’s one year the summer rains did not happen so some milionaire actually paid for the Seminole Indians to do their traditional rain dance, which they did, and sure enough, the clouds gathered and the rain poured!

You know its not science when they have a conclusion and as the results change, they keep trying to fit the facts to their conclusion.
They had a theory, they made their predictions and the predictions were wrong. That tells us their theory is wrong, or at least that whatever their predictions are boil down to guess work, and we could equally assume a slightly warmer planet could be great news for us.
Just so.
And looking at the huge numbers of deaths in Europe due to the severe and unusually long winter, a few degrees of warming would be far, far preferable.
I haven’t seen a single explanation for this bloody-minded insistence on AGW – and the supposed terrible effects of it -that makes sense yet, Zen.
It’s more like a mad cult than either science or good social policy.
@KG:
I wonder when the powers-that-be will enact a law making it a criminal offense to question AGW complete with the Inquisition to enforce it?
We have had millenium computer meltdown, bird flu, satanic ritual abuses of kiddies, the extermination of Hoschstetter frogs and the ghastly wymins glass ceiling. How much money is being made out of this latest global warming scam?
@mistress mara:
The Left is ALWAYS wrong about EVERYTHING!
This is what comes of ignorance of logic, facts, and reason.
No one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9959856/Its-the-cold-not-global-warming-that-we-should-be-worried-about.html
Of course not, Robert. There’s a growing resentment against old people, along with increasing indifference to their treatment.
The cult of youth worship makes the old disposable.
Compare this story with the one you have below about the EU planning to spend 20% of their budget to ‘combat global warming.” And on this side of the pond, we had Obama laying down markers for a massive green push by claiming that global warming is unabated. The cognitive dissonance is about at maximum.
And why the hell is James Hansen still in a position to control the U.S. temperature records. The man and the team he has put together are not scientists, their zealots, and indeed, they have altered temperature records to suit their cause. This really is like putting Dillinger in charge of national bank security standards. No one on the right has the balls to call for this guy to be terminated and his team kicked out of their offices.
Lastly, since 1750 and the Industrial Revolution, the world population has been skyrocketing upward. The surprise has been that agricultural output has kept pace, despite a long line of very bright people since 1750 pointing out how such population increases would surely lead to mass starvation. Yes, there have been many advances in agriculture, but it seems quite likely that the single most important contribution to the ever increasing agricultural output has been ever more plant food (carbon dioxide) being put into the air.
Notice that the Green Freaks always leave off “dioxide” when talking about “carbon” – so as to give the impression that Co2 is some kind of of nasty, dirty CARBON thing.
30 to 40 years, off course and it just so happens that around then this sack of shit Rajendra will be long gone into retirement and no one will be around to pay back the billions.
And it gets worse!
http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1989332-freezing-weather-wipes-german-flea-circus.html#.1258-stage-hero1-4