re: #106 Charles

Yes, the sleepers have awakened.

Now, for the newest bit of propaganda, the executive summary being posted right here, right now (thx, Charles!)

Pretzel logic numero uno -

Even over the past ten years, despite a decrease in solar forcing, the trend continues to be one of warming.

This, in spite of the stabilisation/slight cooling observed for the past 10 year period, lamented by the AGW crowd as lamentably unaccountable. This following the statement in the opening paragraph indicating a 40% increase in CO2 emissions.

Pretzel logic, numero dos - extapolation of scale of sea level rise. 3.4MM/year. Millimeters followed by an extrapolation one order of magnitude HIGHER through the end of the century, which, oh by the way, they insinuate we’re already in store for, despite anything we may do with CO2. Being able to measure sea levels to the millimeter is suspicious enough to raise red flags on this one

Gratuitous hysteria shout out number one -

Delay in action risks irreversible damage: Several vulnerable elements in the climate system (e.g. continental ice-sheets. Amazon rainforest, West African monsoon and others) could be pushed towards abrupt or irreversible change if warming continues in a business-as-usual way throughout this century. The risk of transgressing critical thresholds (“tipping points”) increase strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized.

paraphrase “if we don’t do sumthin, we’re all gonna DIE!!1!!, thus exceeding my own personal Godwin’s corrollary (see comment in previous thread)

Gratuitous hysteria toss off number two -

The turning point must come soon: If global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2oC above pre-industrial values, global emissions need to peak between 2015 and 2020 and then decline rapidly. To stabilize climate, a decarbonized global society – with near-zero emissions of CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases – need to be reached well within this century. More specifically, the average annual per-capita emissions will have to shrink to well under 1 metric ton CO2 by 2050. This is 80-90% below the per-capita emissions in developed nations in 2000.

To paraphrase, you must commit economic seppuku, right freaking NOW, buckwheat.

No, thank you.

Let’s see who put all this together - ah, here we go - prominently displayed among those nodding in agreement to this charade - Michael ‘discredited hockey stick’ Mann, from the East Anglia CRU.

See, the material that some around here insist upon playing ‘three monkeys’ about clearly documents an effort to cook up some numbers to fit a narrative - and voila, herewith the final product. While it’ll never see the light of an LCD from this portal, the examination of the efforts to jam the mish-mash of unregulated, unstandardized, widely varying data through a new and improved FORTRAN algorithm filter to achieve the politically desirable results is particularly brutal - by the end of the thread I reviewed of some coders picking it apart, they were actually sympathetic to the poor guy at CRU, in over his head, trying to make it work.

This isn’t science. It’s a power and money grab, using science as a smokescreen.