It’s Baffling!
How come global warming went away?
There’s a general rule of life, the KISS rule: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Liberals never follow it. So, to them the fact that the earth is refusing to comply with their demented notion of global-warming-climate-change! means that the earth is wrong. Because the default position is that they are right. Always. If you disagree, you’re stupid, Stupid.
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.
At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.
Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth’s average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.
Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.
Reached a Plateau
The planet’s temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. “At present, however, the warming is taking a break,” confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany’s best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. “There can be no argument about that,” he says. “We have to face that fact.”
Bummer. I love a good catastrophe. I love pouring money down the toilet to avert a most excellent catastrophe. What will happen if the public decides that global warming is nonsense?
- Aggie
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
November 19, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
Hey Aggie,
This note by Mark Steyn at The Corner is relevant:
For every datum that shows warming, another shows no such thing.
Buck O'Fama said,
November 19, 2009 @ 2:48 pm
Whadya mean? The Goracle says the temperature at the ceneter of the earth is one million degrees! (Reality check: The Noble/Oscar winner and writer of science books says stuff like that and its Sarah Palin that’s stupid! Go figure.)
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
November 19, 2009 @ 3:34 pm
One of my dearest pals, an engineer by trade, showed me Al Gore making the million degree comment on Conan O’Brien. He honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. We’re so stupid.
- Aggie
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
November 19, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
My wife, the First Lady of Bloodthirstan (I guess that make Aggie Secretary of State) turned on the movie The American President the other night. Essentially, it’s a film version of The West Wing, with even some of the same actors. The plot involves a widowed president, Michael Douglas, dating an environmental lobbyist, played by the lovely and talented Annette Bening. She’d have to be lovely and talented because the drivel she was speaking made no sense. It was all about global warming and the ice caps and the polar bears.
She can be excused, I suppose, because the film was made in 1995—fourteen years ago! But it could have been made last week. The apocalyptic rhetoric was the same, so too was the lip-quivering. I swear, the movie is already as dated and unshowable as Birth of a Nation, with its insulting depictions of black people. Ms. Bening must feel humiliated every time its shown. The rest of us get a good laugh—while we shiver.