It’s been a HOT August for mankind-caused Global Warming proponents, what with the quietly-released revisions in NASA’s temperature-record data showing that many of the hottest years on record preceded the rise in atmospheric CO2 over the latter half of the 20th Century that the Warmies are so frightened about. Of course, that type of trend — warming happening BEFORE the rise of CO2, (an effect can’t be the cause of same-said effect, unless of course you’ve got one of Hermione Grainger’s time-travel amulets handy) — is “conveniently” ignored by anthropogenic climate change believers. With that said, wonder what they’re gonna think about this? Data on Atlantic flow are undercut, which is an article in yesterday’s LA Times of all places.

A massive ocean circulation pattern that plays a crucial role in shaping the world’s climate may not have been slowing down over the last few decades as scientists previously believed, according to a study released Thursday.

The perceived slowdown had been considered alarming support for computer predictions that global warming would disrupt the planet’s heat regulation.

In a single year of measurements, published in today’s issue of the journal Science, the scientists found enough normal variation in the pattern to suggest that previous studies were premature in asserting a long-term trend.

“We can’t strictly say they are wrong, but we can have an alternative explanation,” said coauthor Torsten O. Kanzow, an oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England.

The ocean flow, known as the meridional overturning circulation, has been a focus of global warming debates.

Well, well . . . normally news like that would curdle someone’s milk just a bit — two of the Global Warming fear-mongers biggest bug-a-boos shot down in a single week. Year 1998 was not the hottest year since record keeping began, and a rational basis exists for doubting that the Gulf Stream is slowing down and will continue to do so.

The researchers had no definite explanation for the wide variation in flow, but Kanzow surmised that the dynamics of wave movements, eddies and currents that interfere with the circulation pattern could be more influential than previously thought.

“[T]he dynamics of wave movements, eddies and currents” might be affecting something — Gee, ya think? But, I really like this next statement ’cause it presents the Warmie mindset so perfectly.

Despite their own findings, many of the researchers believe that a slowdown is occurring. But they lack proof.

That folks, is the very definition of faith — belief in man-caused Global Warming is a religion, not science! Another case in point, from the LA Times Sports section of the same day’s issue, in the fishing/whale watching report no less.

Global warming is the theme of the September issue of Backpacker magazine and 10% of poll respondents claim the phenomenon is a hoax.

Some words for these people: Melting ice and vanishing glaciers aside, the world has thousands more people every day.

There’s more waste and more demand for energy — and more carbon emissions.

More pollution is entering the ocean. Increasingly congested freeways and streets — with more asphalt covering cool earth daily — are themselves a considerable source of artificial heat.

How can this not have an adverse effect on the environment?

Thankfully, 90% of those polled expressed concern and most said they were willing to make lifestyle changes in an attempt to alleviate the problem.

I’m actually quite impressed by that 10% number. In an enthusiast magazine like Backpacker one would actually expect the rate of believers would be at around 98%-99%, with a couple points of what they would consider raging idiots for not being part of the avowed consensus. I’d be “thankful” if that 90% would slam their Priuses (Prii?) into long-term storage so I don’t have to look at so many of the ugly little suckers!

However, not to be upstaged by the NASA data revision and new Gulf Stream flow numbers, the LAT found us something new to freak out about — Record Arctic ice shrinkage is seen as global warming effect.

There was less sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record, and the melting is continuing, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.

“Today is a historic day,” said Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at the center in Boulder, Colo. “This is the least sea ice we’ve ever seen in the satellite record, and we have another month left to go in the melt season this year.”

Scientists began monitoring the extent of Arctic sea ice in the 1970s, when satellite images became available.

“It is very strong evidence that we are starting to see an effect of greenhouse warming,” Serreze said.

Ol’ Mark Serreze actually seems to be gleeful about all this, doesn’t he? Another case of “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine!” This one is so absurd on the surface that it almost doesn’t warrant fisking — ’cause it basically fisks itself! Let’s go through this slowly so even our Warmie troll, Boris, might have a shot at gettin’ it — (I’m not holdin’ my breath there, Boris!)

1) “[L]ess sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record” – Warmies so love to use that phrase. Wow, we must have been keeping accurate, detailed temperature records for millenniums, right? Well, there’s ice-core data, deep-water sediment data, tree rings? But, there’s nothing that one could hang a hat on and make such an absurd statement. Even the most intellectually incurious among the Warmies should be made to contemplate how warm it must have been when Greenland was settled by exiled Norwegians in the late 900s AD — where they actually farmed in protected areas of the southwestern tip of the island.

2) Monitoring began in the ’70s, with the advent of satellite data availability — Hmmm, 37 years of data to backup the claim in item #1. Like I said above — idiotic.

3) “Strong evidence” that the effects of Global Warming are beginning to be seem — I’m not gonna use the i-word again, it’s like beating a dead horse after it bloats . . . it makes a real mess and the stench is just too much!

What scientific research keeps discovering is that the Earth’s climate record shows patterns, many cycles of warming, then cooling, more intense warming, then glaciation and back again, and again, and again — and a rational mind would say that this will continue, whether mankind exists or not. What all this effort and monies being wasted on trying to scare the bejesus out of us should be going toward is to understanding how the current cycle of minimal warming can be taken to advantage. While there truly might be adverse weather effects in some areas, others like the far-north and far-south could blossom with agricultural opportunities on previously unused, unspoiled land. Just because something is like “it is”, today, doesn’t mean that “it” is the optimal situation.

Complete and total hubris — epitomized by anthropogenic climate change proponents.

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