What The IPCC Wants To Hide. The "Greenhouse Signature" Is Missing!
Ray Evans
Quadrant Magazine Environment
June 2008 Volume LII Number 6
http://quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=3936
QUOTE: In 1800 William Herschel, the Astronomer Royal, published his
famous paper in which he took the wheat prices recorded by Adam Smith in
The Wealth of Nations, and found they correlated extremely well with the
sunspot record as it was then known.
BUT THESE CONSIDERATIONS are not as important as the inconvenient facts
which are finally coming into public view. The first is the
contradiction between what the climate models predict and what
temperature measurements of the troposphere are telling us. There are
more than twenty climate models around the world. Every one predicts
some degree of warming from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentrations (although estimates vary greatly) and every one requires
significant warming to take place in the troposphere in tropical
latitudes, at altitudes of about ten kilometres.
This phenomenon is known as the "greenhouse signature".
There has been intensive investigation into the actual temperatures at
these latitudes and altitudes using radiosonde balloons and satellites.
The results are now beyond dispute.
There is no warming. None.
This result poses a huge crisis for the IPCC and all those whose
reputations and livelihoods depend upon it. Do you stick with the
climate models, or do you believe the temperature data? This quandary
has been kept pretty quiet and it hasn't yet reached the mainstream
press. But it will be impossible to keep it under wraps indefinitely;
those who are in the know and appreciate the implications are
re-positioning themselves. When it finally breaks out, many people will
be searching for new careers.
The second is much better known; the failure of the planet to warm,
despite steadily rising carbon dioxide concentrations, since 1998.
The third is the record-breaking fall in global temperature in 2007.
The fourth, and most serious, is the failure of solar cycle 24 to become
manifest. Until belief in the IPCC theory of anthropogenic carbon
dioxide climate control became mandatory, the study of solar influences
on the world's climate had occupied scientists for at least two
centuries.
In 1800 William Herschel, the Astronomer Royal, published his famous
paper in which he took the wheat prices recorded by Adam Smith in The
Wealth of Nations, and found they correlated extremely well with the
sunspot record as it was then known. He was probably spurred into this
investigation because the Thames had frozen in London for the first time
for nearly a century, an early manifestation of the Dalton Minimum. This
period, which began about 1795 and persisted until 1820, had begun its
grim passage throughout Europe, where the combination of bad harvests
followed by the Napoleonic Wars caused great distress. It was coincident
with solar cycles 5 and 6, which were of very low intensity. But of
greater significance was that solar cycle 4 had been of high intensity
and long duration, thirteen years, and a period of warmer temperatures
and excellent harvests.
Historically, such long-duration, high-intensity solar cycles have been
excellent predictors of weak cycles and miserable weather for the next
twenty-five to thirty years. Why this should be so is an issue over
which many scientists, many of them retired or amateur, now argue. But
because the correlation is from a past event into a future event, no one
can argue that the climate change causes sunspot activity to diminish.
(In his movie Al Gore tried this reverse-causation trick in his
discussion of the carbon dioxide and temperature curves found in the
Vostok ice cores.)
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
".it should not be surprising to see hordes of former Reds, or of those
who otherwise would have become Reds, turning from Marxism and becoming
the Greens of the ecology movement. It is the same fundamental
philosophy in a different guise, ready as ever to wage war on the
freedom and well-being of the individual." Dr. George Reisman's book
Capitalism
