Ken Nelson

If only it would get WARMER!

In 2008 the Climate Research Unit models predicted 2009 would be among the warmest years ever. But, as has happened through out the decade, it was cooler, not warmer.

There are a number of reasons why this could happen: faulty measurements, the earth is naturally in a cooling cycle, sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions from India and China.

The Powerline guys report on a hacked CRU e-mail thread that isn’t so much about fudged data, or really bad science, as it is about the attitude of the scientists involved.

They desperately want WARMER so the skeptics won’t be right. And I suspect, unspoken, so they won’t lose their funds, jobs and credibility.  And in this fear they fail in their role to inform us what will really happen:

But as a result of increased SO2 in the atmosphere, there is "potential for a distinct lack of warming in the early 21st C."

Well, isn’t that good news?  That we aren’t warming? Yet they are not very excited about the idea:

I hope you’re not right about the lack of warming lasting till about 2020. I’d rather hoped to see the earlier Met Office press release with Doug’s paper that said something like -half the years to 2014 would exceed the warmest year currently on record, 1998!

I do not think we can trust climate science. I do not know how, or if, trust can be regained.