🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:27:10 -0500, RLW wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:18:28 -0400, Leonard wrote:
> 
>> Abracadabra,  No More Mediæval Warm Period!
>> 
>> The lies behind the failed Hockey Stick
> 
> <yada, yada, yada>
> 
> I'm starting to get the impression that few posting here actually know
> what the "hockey stick" graph was intended to represent: runaway, nearly
> limitless increase in surface temperature.
> 
> A) We know that's wrong.
> 
> B) We know that the troposphere is getting warmer.

We know that the data points used show warming, but as Watt pointed out, 
58% are wrongly situated so they WOULD show warming. In fact, they would 
track US energy usage; if we do cut back on carbon emissions, these sites 
should show cooling!

We know that 70% of the data collection stations in the US are garbage 
for the purpose of tracking climate change. 

GIGO. 

Now, there's better data out there, like Satellite data, but... "Climate 
Scientists" don't use that. Of course, it shows cooling. :-D 



> (A) does nothing to disprove (B).  Indeed, (B) is something *observed*,
> not a matter open to debate.

How the data is collected is always open to debate.

Or did you miss the neutrino speed limit violation debacle? 

Gather your data, and mistrust it. 
 
> (B) means that a lot of weather patterns will change and a lot of ice
> will melt.  This doesn't mean Humanity will die off, but it will be very
> damn' expensive and inconvenient for a good many folks.
> 
> I'll hate having to explain to my grandkids that everyone stood around
> debating whether it was happening instead of figuring out what impact it
> will have and how to solve some of the attendant problems.

Instead you'll be denying that you were fooled in the great global 
warming fraud.