Permanent Temperature Data Torture.
Harry Emerson Fosdick :-
“The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.”
The article here: www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/ explains it better than anywhere in my opinion. Thus I leave it all to them. You couldn’t make this stuff up. With this revelation and the “news” that the PDO or the thermohaline circulation or the meridional overturning circulation being factored into a model for the first time has resulted in a new “estimate” that cooling will continue until 2015 – {klaxon}eeeerrggghh! I will have to stop you there. Wrong. Sorry, but 2015 is due to be very(very) cold in comparison to the the hallowed year of our Gored 1998. Time for someone to post all those temperature lists from …. oh yeah, one of the cheats. Time for someone to call me “useless troll” again – and express the hope that I hold zero scientific qualifications… again. Time for someone to explain why another stupid hack or paid lackey of the oil/coal companies or retired people who are out of their field or non climate scientists or someone who once proved secondary smoke doesn’t kill or a denialist nutter have got it all wrong and the news from realclimate/tamino/nasa is that we are still going to fry just not quite yet. Not before the next round of funding at least. Time for someone to cut’n'paste some stale stuff from a weird place. Time for the charlatans to be uncovered. Time for tax refunds, Oscar returns and Nobel retractions. Time for the “what to do about the cold?” and “can we stop making biofools of ourselves please?” type questions – oh, and let us debate the science in a public place. Soon too.
Unfortunately it is also time to endure the shrill shrieks of the true faithful writhing and contorting in ecstatic whirls in defense of the new spin – “Praise be! We have been given this holy pause in order to fulfill thy works oh Bored. We can take this blessed respite and pour despite all over it by insisting to the infidel that it will get warmer next time it gets warmer”. “Let us pay oh Bored”.
There may yet be apostasy. I always hold the hope that mankind solves problems, and learns whilst doing so. Hopefully this cool period before the cold will allow us to show conclusively that CO2 should be loved, up to and beyond say… 800ppmv to be on the safe side of caution. By then if we have not contained fusion or done better then we deserve to run out of “fossil” fuels.
Somewhere, not too far in the distance, crickets chirp…
