KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'...........

Government reports claiming that global warming exists (and, of course, what else can you expect from career federal government workers who almost always vote Democrat and are concerned with nothing but th security of their own jobs?)

AJStrata takes them to task:

the report was dumbed down by a spiffy PR firm in order to make it clearer to those who struggled through high school calculus or sweated trying to help their teenagers through it (you know – politicians, entertainers, etc who all of sudden are experts in science and math). Ripped away of its complicated – yet precise – wording and recast into something grade schoolers could read. Anyway, it made it much easier to point out the blatant errors in the underlying ’science’ and conclusions.

He goes on to quote the paragraphs witrh the errors in bold:

Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal. The global warming observed over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. These emissions come mainly from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), with important contributions from the clearing of forests, agricultural practices, and other activities.
Warming over this century is projected to be considerably greater than over the last century. The global average temperature since 1900 has risen by about 1.5ºF.

Take a look at the chart and his analysis:

First off, note that the supposed increase in average global temperature is claimed to be “about 1.5°F”. That is in fact a very bogus claim. First off, not the following chart from the National Climate Data Center – which is supposedly a source for this report:
 

 

This period, from 1880 to the present, is the one period that has had regular, global measurements using instruments. Prior to this date the global temperature record is derived (many times inaccurately) from ‘proxies’ like the diversity of certain marine fossils in core samples, ice core levels of trace gases, tree rings. I say in accurately because the IPCC and others have attempted to delete the Medieval and Roman Warming periods from the historical record. But these periods when the global temperatures rivaled, if not exceeded, todays warm cycle are not solely predicated on exotic proxies and loose statistics. There are many other records (such as population numbers, growing season numbers, conditional descriptions) which also reflect these warm periods.

Anyway, if we look at this 1880-2009 period we see two ‘peaks’: a low point around 1910 of -0.3°C and the high peak sitting around present time of +0.5°C. Now these are maximum and minimum peaks – they are not averages. The report claims (falsely) that “The global average temperature since 1900 has risen by about 1.5ºF“. (I need to use one temperature scale or the other, so I will do the rest in °C. The 1.5°F = 0.83°C, which will be the comparison from herein). These ’scientists’ used the min-max difference from this data set to exaggerate their claim of past warming! And their own data proves this is the case!

He has more charts and analysis at the link.

Remember the big brouhaha the media and its apologists on the left made over how polar bears are dying due to global warming?

Well, bullshit! Not true. And along the way other “truths” are debunked:

a new book, compiled by Stanley Feldman, a professor of anaesthetics at London University, and Vincent Marks, a former professor of clinical biochemistry and dean of medicine at the University of Surrey, are questioning the end of the world and healthy eating tips.

Writing in The Daily Mail, the pair discuss Global Warming And Other ——–: The Truth About All Those Science Scare Stories, where they examine the “facts” behind global warming, the future of polar bears and chef Jamie Oliver’s nemesis, Turkey Twizzlers.

The Sun is behind Global Warming

Rather than man-made CO2 being responsible for global warming, they argue that there is evidence it is caused in part by the increase in the intensity of the Sun’s heat.

CO2 levels

Although the level of CO2 is higher than the “pre-industrial” level – today it is about 0.038 per cent of the atmosphere, compared to 0.02 per cent, carbon dioxide levels have often been as much as 10 times higher than they are today.

Polar bears and penguins are not dying out

Most populations of polar bear are doing well. Despite the melting in the Arctic ice cap, numbers have more than doubled since 1950. They are also good swimmers. Although some Antarctic penguin colonies are decreasing in size, their numbers are also steady.

More at the link.

I like these:

There are few ‘bad’ foods

Fears about hamburgers are irrational. Most countries’ national dish is based on minced meat, with none suffering from a junk food-related epidemic. Obesity is not caused by these foods, but by those who gorge on it.

Organic food is no better for you

Plant nutriment comes from the air, in the form of CO2, and from water-soluble chemicals in the soil. By the time organic foods – thought to not contain “chemicals” used in large-scale conventional farming – reach your plate, it is all the same.