Climate change: The sun and the oceans do not lie
13th July 2009
The moves now being made by the world’s political establishment to lock us into December’s Copenhagen treaty to halt global warming are as alarming as anything that has happened in our lifetimes. Last week in Italy, the various branches of our emerging world government, G8 and G20, agreed in principle that the world must by 2050 cut its CO2 emissions in half. Britain and the US are already committed to cutting their use of fossil fuels by more than 80 per cent. Short of an unimaginable technological revolution, this could only be achieved by closing down virtually all our economic activity: no electricity, no transport, no industry. All this is being egged on by a gigantic publicity machine, by the UN, by serried ranks of government-funded scientists, by cheerleaders such as Al Gore, last week comparing the fight against global warming to that against Hitler’s Nazis, and by politicians who have no idea what they are setting in train.
What makes this even odder is that the runaway warming predicted by their computer models simply isn’t happening. Last week one of the four official sources of temperature measurement, compiled from satellite data by the University of Huntsville, Alabama, showed that temperatures have now fallen to their average level since satellite data began 30 years ago.
July 13th, 2009 at 17:21
Readers who want to know more about this important matter can go to wattsupwiththat.com, an excellent and accessible website. Its proprietor, Anthony Watts is the man behind the surfacestations.org project, in which it is demonstrated that well over 80% of US weather stations intended to measure the surface temperature of the earth, do not meet the government’s own specifications. He also reveals they were never intended to be used for weather prediction in the first place.