The global atmospheric temperature anomaly dropped by about 0.33° C to +.18 degrees above from 30-year (1981-2010) average.
In my previous posting I wondered when the “consensus” scientists would begin to openly call into question the theory that CO2 is the primary forcing agent driving global warming. The longer the “pause” in global warming continues, (the IPCC head, Dr. Pachuri said the pause is now at 17 years), the harder it must be to steadfastly hold to the CO2 theory. Skeptics largely agree that CO2 is a forcing agent but have maintained that natural forces were probably the dominate force. In my opinion, the Sun is most likely the major forcing agent even though the exact mechanism has yet to be proven.
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The second draft of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was leaked to the internet on 13 December. It is generating a lot of discussion. So far the main talking point seems be that the leaked report says that the Sun is as great a forcing agent as is CO2. I scanned the “Summary For Policy Makers” (SPM) from the leaked draft. I don’t see that view being reflected there. One of the 13 lead author of Chapter 7 “Clouds and Aerosols” was interviewed by Australia’s ABC TV network and he said Chapter 7 does not say the Sun is a major factor. Chapter 8 “Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcings” also discusses this issue. While I think that the Sun is a major forcing agent, much more powerful than CO2, I have little doubt that the final report will not say that. Especially the SPM. The full report is large and quite technical. Most people do not read it and you can bet that no politician or journalist anywhere in the world will read the full report. So the SPM, in the past, ignored any scientific conclusion that did not fit the narrative of catastrophic man-made global warm. It will again.
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Recently a Washington Post article by Melinda Henneberger stated that “Sandy puts climate change back in the conversation”. To bolster the author’s case, she relied upon politicians among whom were Dan Quayle and NY mayor Bloomberg for “expert” analysis. The only scientist quoted was the widely discredited James Hansen who offered evidence in the form of heat waves in Russia and drought in Texas and Oklahoma. The “bible” of the warmers are the reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However the IPCC says that man’s influence on extreme weather is uncertain and may not be known for another 30 years. About American Central Plains droughts, the IPCC says that droughts there have decreased in recent decades. Although not a hurricane, Sandy was a serious storm abetted by high tides. But the author is obviously not a student of history or she would have known that many hurricanes have hit the East Coast over the years that were much more violent than Sandy. For example, the category 3 “New England Hurricane” of September 1938 made landfall on Long Island. In the years 1954 and1955, three category 3 and two category 4 hurricanes hit the East Coast of the US.
Over the years there were many other major Atlantic hurricanes . (See listing in Wiki by clicking here.) Most of which predate the current time where warmist claim that hurricanes are more frequent and deadly due to rising amounts of atmospheric CO2.
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Climate Change Sanity 