Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

You must have missed it okie..

http://able2know.org/topic/44061-639#post-3604129

The link in my post will give you all the math you need to understand it.

After looking at your graph, when you simplify the obfiscation of the math, all it really shows is the preponderance of higher temperatures are on the last five years of the last 10, so the line inclinces upward.

By Noel Sheppard
December 11, 2006 - 11:15 ET

The UK Telegraph reported Sunday that the United Nations will significantly reduce its global warming assessment in a document set to be published in February (emphasis mine):

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent. [……]
The panel, however, has lowered predictions of how much sea levels will rise in comparison with its last report in 2001.
http://newsbusters.org/node/9585

Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:22AM GMT 11 Dec 2006

Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.

In a final draft of its fourth assessment report, to be published in February, the panel reports that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has accelerated in the past five years. It also predicts that temperatures will rise by up to 4.5 C during the next 100 years, bringing more frequent heat waves and storms.

The panel, however, has lowered predictions of how much sea levels will rise in comparison with its last report in 2001.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1536454/UN-downgrades-mans-impact-on-the-climate.html

Media Fired Up About U.N. Global Warming Report
News reports eagerly promote global warming, predict catastrophe and selectively silence climate experts.
By Julia A. Seymour
Business & Media Institute
2/7/2007 12:40:10 PM

As Manhattan enjoyed an unseasonable 72-degree winter day on January 6, news media quickly claimed that the weather inspired fears of “the end of the world.” But as the thermometer dipped into extreme cold, the rhetoric of human-caused global warming has not cooled off.

“Do people here [South Beach, Fla.] know that very likely in the next "" well several decades "" all of this is going to be underwater?” asked CBS “Early Show” anchor Harry Smith during an interview with author Carl Hiaasen. Smith injected the topic of global warming into his interview about the appeal of Miami on February 1.

ABC flashed an onscreen graphic that read “Will Billions Die from Global Warming?”

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a summary of its upcoming report on February 2, the media supplied catastrophic predictions. But they left out two key elements: experts who questioned the report and U.N. predictions that were actually downgraded from earlier warnings.

NBC anchor Brian Williams treated the report as above reproach when he said on “Nightly News,” “Climate change is increasingly a political issue. But today’’s report is all about science.”

But as the Business & Media Institute reported in the study Fire and Ice, the media have frequently hyped the threat of climate catastrophe "" alternating global cooling and global warming "" throughout the past 100 years. Each of those reports was “all about science,” too.

Coverage of the U.N. report gave no explanation of who writes the summary that was released on February 2. “The Summary for Policymakers is designed to be a propaganda document that will promote global warming alarmism,” said the Competitive Enterprise Institute’’s Myron Ebell. “It is not written by the scientists who wrote the report, but by the governments that belong to the IPCC.”

See No Debate, Speak No Debate

Media reports following the IPCC release could be summed up like this: “The earth is warming, it’’s mankind’’s fault, and no one can question it.”

During Sam Champion’s January 31 ABC segment, he stated that the IPCC report would conclude with 99 percent certainty that global warming is caused by mankind’s fossil fuel pollution.

But the actual report, released on February 2, “confirmed they’re 90 percent certain manmade greenhouse gas emissions are causing alarming rates of global warming,” according to correspondent Dawna Friesen of NBC “Nightly News.”

Unlike the IPCC scientists, the media must have been 100 percent certain, because stories about the IPCC report on February 2 ABC, NBC and CBS broadcasts included no other point of view.

“The top climate experts from all around the world, speaking with one voice, issued a blunt and bleak assessment today on global warning. There was no ambiguity in their words,” said ABC’’s Charles Gibson during “World News.”

Experts who disagreed with the IPCC were nowhere to be found in those February 2 network stories.

But there are many experts who disagree, including climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball, who stated in a February 5 article that “Global warming, as we think we know it, doesn’’t exist.” Ball earned his Ph.D. in climatology from the University of London and taught the science at the University of Winnipeg.

In his article, Ball also said that global warming is not caused by human carbon dioxide emissions, calling it “the greatest deception in the history of science.” He then cited the global cooling consensus from 30 years ago and said “global temperature trends now indicate a cooling” to come.

Another scientist, astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shariv, once said that human carbon dioxide emissions were causing global warming, but has since recanted and now blames solar activity. Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov agrees because he has seen evidence on another planet.

“Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians,” Abdussamatov told Canada’’s National Post.

Convenient Fact Selection

Also conspicuously absent from the post-IPCC report stories on the networks was the mention of a significant revision to U.N. predictions of sea level rise. According to The Wall Street Journal, in 2001 the U.N. was predicting a high-end sea level rise of three feet by 2100, but the new report leaves high-end estimates at 17 inches "" a 52.7-percent decrease.
“[W]hat’s not new in today’s IPCC report "" that humans are warming the planet "" will be treated as big news, while what is new "" that sea levels are not likely to rise as much as previously predicted "" will be ignored, at least by everyone except the extremist fringe,” predicted climatologist Patrick J. Michaels on February 2.

Michaels was correct. ABC’s Bill Blakemore left out the revision of U.N. predictions in a segment about that very topic: rising sea levels. “World News” anchor Bill Weir introduced the report saying that rising water “may be the scariest part of all.” In fact, Blakemore’’s story sounded like the opposite of the U.N.’’s reduced prediction.

“Sea levels could rise in the coming decades faster than anyone thought,” said Blakemore, who later warned that by the year 2030, 2,000 Indonesian islands could disappear.

Instead of reporting the backpedaling of the IPCC, NBC’s Campbell Brown interviewed eco-celebrity Laurie David of http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/ on February 3. The Saturday “Today” co-host gushed about Al Gore’’s Academy Award and Nobel Peace Prize nominations and how his documentary caused people to take the issue of global warming “to heart.” She also told viewers to change their light bulbs.
The reports didn’’t even attempt to provide balance or to present all the relevant facts.

But that was nothing new to CNN’s Lou Dobbs. Just two days earlier, Dobbs left behind all journalistic objectivity and admitted to silencing the debate for the purposes of his show “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” “I’ll tell you something we did on this show, oh about seven, eight months ago because I finally got tired of the debate. I said, ‘‘All right, on this broadcast at least for the purposes of this audience and this broadcast we’’re going to assume that mankind has a significant role in global warming,” said Dobbs on January 30.

What about Today’’s Weather?

CBS weatherman Sam Champion was concerned that the extremely cold weather might freeze out acceptance of the IPCC report.
“Good Morning America’’s” Champion even shook off the notion that currently cold temperatures could undermine the theories about human-caused climate change during the February 5 broadcast. “Remember, your day-to-day temperatures are not gauging global warming,” Champion said.

Tell that to The Washington Post and The New York Times reporters as well as NBC’s Meredith Vieira, who all linked unseasonably high temperatures in the Northeast to global warming in early January.

Joel Achenbach declared on January 7, “The weather is sublime, it’s glorious, it’s the end of the world,” in the Post.

Vieira even asked “are we all gonna die?” on the January 7 “Today Show.”
Or tell that to Al Gore, who "chose January 15, 2004, one of the coldest days in New York City's history, to rail against the Bush administration and global warming skeptics," as James M. Taylor wrote in Environment & Climate News. Gore, Taylor said, told his audience that global warming was causing record cold.

"The extreme conditions are actually the end result of the planet warming," Gore claimed.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20070207122211.aspx

The soon-to-be-released new IPCC report should be an interesting read. Over the last months, one or two at a time, Ican has been patiently posting the comments of 400 well credentialed scientists who once promoted a theory of anthropogenic global warming but have sense recanted those views and are now among the ranks of the skeptics.

And the scientific opinion now is all over the map while the leftwing media that has been such a strong advocate for the AGW theorists isn't quite ready yet to eat any crow:

Quote:

By Noel Sheppard
December 11, 2006 - 11:15 ET

The UK Telegraph reported Sunday that the United Nations will significantly reduce its global warming assessment in a document set to be published in February (emphasis mine):

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent. [……]
The panel, however, has lowered predictions of how much sea levels will rise in comparison with its last report in 2001.
http://newsbusters.org/node/9585

Quote:

Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:22AM GMT 11 Dec 2006

Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.

In a final draft of its fourth assessment report, to be published in February, the panel reports that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has accelerated in the past five years. It also predicts that temperatures will rise by up to 4.5 C during the next 100 years, bringing more frequent heat waves and storms.

The panel, however, has lowered predictions of how much sea levels will rise in comparison with its last report in 2001.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1536454/UN-downgrades-mans-impact-on-the-climate.html

Quote:

Media Fired Up About U.N. Global Warming Report
News reports eagerly promote global warming, predict catastrophe and selectively silence climate experts.
By Julia A. Seymour
Business & Media Institute
2/7/2007 12:40:10 PM

As Manhattan enjoyed an unseasonable 72-degree winter day on January 6, news media quickly claimed that the weather inspired fears of “the end of the world.” But as the thermometer dipped into extreme cold, the rhetoric of human-caused global warming has not cooled off.

“Do people here [South Beach, Fla.] know that very likely in the next "" well several decades "" all of this is going to be underwater?” asked CBS “Early Show” anchor Harry Smith during an interview with author Carl Hiaasen. Smith injected the topic of global warming into his interview about the appeal of Miami on February 1.

ABC flashed an onscreen graphic that read “Will Billions Die from Global Warming?”

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a summary of its upcoming report on February 2, the media supplied catastrophic predictions. But they left out two key elements: experts who questioned the report and U.N. predictions that were actually downgraded from earlier warnings.

NBC anchor Brian Williams treated the report as above reproach when he said on “Nightly News,” “Climate change is increasingly a political issue. But today’’s report is all about science.”

But as the Business & Media Institute reported in the study Fire and Ice, the media have frequently hyped the threat of climate catastrophe "" alternating global cooling and global warming "" throughout the past 100 years. Each of those reports was “all about science,” too.

Coverage of the U.N. report gave no explanation of who writes the summary that was released on February 2. “The Summary for Policymakers is designed to be a propaganda document that will promote global warming alarmism,” said the Competitive Enterprise Institute’’s Myron Ebell. “It is not written by the scientists who wrote the report, but by the governments that belong to the IPCC.”

See No Debate, Speak No Debate

Media reports following the IPCC release could be summed up like this: “The earth is warming, it’’s mankind’’s fault, and no one can question it.”

During Sam Champion’s January 31 ABC segment, he stated that the IPCC report would conclude with 99 percent certainty that global warming is caused by mankind’s fossil fuel pollution.

But the actual report, released on February 2, “confirmed they’re 90 percent certain manmade greenhouse gas emissions are causing alarming rates of global warming,” according to correspondent Dawna Friesen of NBC “Nightly News.”

Unlike the IPCC scientists, the media must have been 100 percent certain, because stories about the IPCC report on February 2 ABC, NBC and CBS broadcasts included no other point of view.

“The top climate experts from all around the world, speaking with one voice, issued a blunt and bleak assessment today on global warning. There was no ambiguity in their words,” said ABC’’s Charles Gibson during “World News.”

Experts who disagreed with the IPCC were nowhere to be found in those February 2 network stories.

But there are many experts who disagree, including climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball, who stated in a February 5 article that “Global warming, as we think we know it, doesn’’t exist.” Ball earned his Ph.D. in climatology from the University of London and taught the science at the University of Winnipeg.

In his article, Ball also said that global warming is not caused by human carbon dioxide emissions, calling it “the greatest deception in the history of science.” He then cited the global cooling consensus from 30 years ago and said “global temperature trends now indicate a cooling” to come.

Another scientist, astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shariv, once said that human carbon dioxide emissions were causing global warming, but has since recanted and now blames solar activity. Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov agrees because he has seen evidence on another planet.

“Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians,” Abdussamatov told Canada’’s National Post.

Convenient Fact Selection

Also conspicuously absent from the post-IPCC report stories on the networks was the mention of a significant revision to U.N. predictions of sea level rise. According to The Wall Street Journal, in 2001 the U.N. was predicting a high-end sea level rise of three feet by 2100, but the new report leaves high-end estimates at 17 inches "" a 52.7-percent decrease.
“[W]hat’s not new in today’s IPCC report "" that humans are warming the planet "" will be treated as big news, while what is new "" that sea levels are not likely to rise as much as previously predicted "" will be ignored, at least by everyone except the extremist fringe,” predicted climatologist Patrick J. Michaels on February 2.

Michaels was correct. ABC’s Bill Blakemore left out the revision of U.N. predictions in a segment about that very topic: rising sea levels. “World News” anchor Bill Weir introduced the report saying that rising water “may be the scariest part of all.” In fact, Blakemore’’s story sounded like the opposite of the U.N.’’s reduced prediction.

“Sea levels could rise in the coming decades faster than anyone thought,” said Blakemore, who later warned that by the year 2030, 2,000 Indonesian islands could disappear.

Instead of reporting the backpedaling of the IPCC, NBC’s Campbell Brown interviewed eco-celebrity Laurie David of http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/ on February 3. The Saturday “Today” co-host gushed about Al Gore’’s Academy Award and Nobel Peace Prize nominations and how his documentary caused people to take the issue of global warming “to heart.” She also told viewers to change their light bulbs.
The reports didn’’t even attempt to provide balance or to present all the relevant facts.

But that was nothing new to CNN’s Lou Dobbs. Just two days earlier, Dobbs left behind all journalistic objectivity and admitted to silencing the debate for the purposes of his show “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” “I’ll tell you something we did on this show, oh about seven, eight months ago because I finally got tired of the debate. I said, ‘‘All right, on this broadcast at least for the purposes of this audience and this broadcast we’’re going to assume that mankind has a significant role in global warming,” said Dobbs on January 30.

What about Today’’s Weather?

CBS weatherman Sam Champion was concerned that the extremely cold weather might freeze out acceptance of the IPCC report.
“Good Morning America’’s” Champion even shook off the notion that currently cold temperatures could undermine the theories about human-caused climate change during the February 5 broadcast. “Remember, your day-to-day temperatures are not gauging global warming,” Champion said.

Tell that to The Washington Post and The New York Times reporters as well as NBC’s Meredith Vieira, who all linked unseasonably high temperatures in the Northeast to global warming in early January.

Joel Achenbach declared on January 7, “The weather is sublime, it’s glorious, it’s the end of the world,” in the Post.

Vieira even asked “are we all gonna die?” on the January 7 “Today Show.”
Or tell that to Al Gore, who "chose January 15, 2004, one of the coldest days in New York City's history, to rail against the Bush administration and global warming skeptics," as James M. Taylor wrote in Environment & Climate News. Gore, Taylor said, told his audience that global warming was causing record cold.

"The extreme conditions are actually the end result of the planet warming," Gore claimed.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20070207122211.aspx

A year ago, British meteorologists made headlines predicting that the buildup of greenhouse gases would help make 2007 the hottest year on record. At year’s end, even though the British scientists reported the global temperature average was not a new record " it was actually lower than any year since 2001 " the BBC confidently proclaimed, “2007 Data Confirms Warming Trend.”

When the Arctic sea ice last year hit the lowest level ever recorded by satellites, it was big news and heralded as a sign that the whole planet was warming. When the Antarctic sea ice last year reached the highest level ever recorded by satellites, it was pretty much ignored. A large part of Antarctica has been cooling recently, but most coverage of that continent has focused on one small part that has warmed. . . . .

. . . .Roger A. Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, recently noted the very different reception received last year by two conflicting papers on the link between hurricanes and global warming. He counted 79 news articles about a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and only 3 news articles about one in a far more prestigious journal, Nature.

Guess which paper jibed with the theory " and image of Katrina " presented by Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”?

It was, of course, the paper in the more obscure journal, which suggested that global warming is creating more hurricanes. The paper in Nature concluded that global warming has a minimal effect on hurricanes. It was published in December " by coincidence, the same week that Mr. Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize.

In his acceptance speech, Mr. Gore didn’t dwell on the complexities

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/science/01tier.html?_r=1

I really think you should drop the whole IPCC chairman bit unless you can come up with something he actually said, which I don't believe exists.. It certainly doesn't gibe with anything he's said since and continues to say.

The soon-to-be-released new IPCC report should be an interesting read. Over the last months, Ican has been patiently posting the comments of 400 well credentialed scientists who once promoted a theory of anthropogenic global warming but have sense recanted those views and are now among the ranks of the skeptics.

"Paleoclimate research shows that the chillier periods of the Earth's history have always given way to warmer times, and vice versa. But it is not quite clear what causes this change,"