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Like hoola hoops, mood rings, Farrah Fawcett and disco, every notable fad enjoys its halcyon days before it all comes to an end. You know the drill– one day, everybody is on the bandwagon– all but the losers, of course– and then it’s over, with many looking back scratching their heads wondering what the fuss was really all about.
More and more, it’s turning out that the global warming hysteria that has gripped the world for the last decade or so will join the above noted curiosities that appeared on the scene with much fanfare. And holding true to the pattern, following its demise, many people will undoubtedly deny ever having participated in such silliness…
From The Australian:
Duffy: "Can you tell us about NASA’s Aqua satellite, because I understand some of the data we’re now getting is quite important in our understanding of how climate works?"
Marohasy: "That’s right. The satellite was only launched in 2002 and it enabled the collection of data, not just on temperature but also on cloud formation and water vapour. What all the climate models suggest is that, when you’ve got warming from additional carbon dioxide, this will result in increased water vapour, so you’re going to get a positive feedback. That’s what the models have been indicating. What this great data from the NASA Aqua satellite … (is) actually showing is just the opposite, that with a little bit of warming, weather processes are compensating, so they’re actually limiting the greenhouse effect and you’re getting a negative rather than a positive feedback."
Duffy: "The climate is actually, in one way anyway, more robust than was assumed in the climate models?"
Marohasy: "That’s right … These findings actually aren’t being disputed by the meteorological community. They’re having trouble digesting the findings, they’re acknowledging the findings, they’re acknowledging that the data from NASA’s Aqua satellite is not how the models predict, and I think they’re about to recognise that the models really do need to be overhauled and that when they are overhauled they will probably show greatly reduced future warming projected as a consequence of carbon dioxide."
Duffy: "From what you’re saying, it sounds like the implications of this could beconsiderable …"
Marohasy: "That’s right, very much so. The policy implications are enormous. The meteorological community at the moment is really just coming to terms with the output from this NASA Aqua satellite and (climate scientist) Roy Spencer’s interpretation of them. His work is published, his work is accepted, but I think people are still in shock at this point."
If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting.
Whoa! Can you believe this!? When you combine this story, on top of all the previous ones with the same basic findings we’ve posted here at the ‘Grok– you do have to wonder. Actually, some of us never bought into the hype in the first place. What all this demonstrates is that the skeptics have been right all along. The big question is what will those who believed with the zeal of religious converts do now?
OHMYGODTHEWORLDISFREEZINGANDWE’REALLGONNADIEUNLESSAMERICAREDUCESITSSTANDARDOFLIVING!!!!!