Unpublished: (AP) A New Study Shows the World in a Weather U-Turn

Vincent J. Curtis

11 Mar 2013


I know this was written by the Associated Press, but you know and I know it is a piece of rubbish.  By journalistic standards it failed to report the contrary opinions of scientists who don't share the opinions of the global warming hacks, a.k.a. the 'balancing view'.  The piece even mentioned uncritically the so-called "hockey stick" graph which, having been shown to arise from sampling and mathematical chicanery, ought at least to have been qualified as 'controversial.'  The article does nothing more than advertise the opinions of certain people with a political agenda, without mentioning that other people think there is this agenda.

Let me enumerate some of the most obvious flaws in the article.  First, the headline confuses weather with climate.  What is changing is supposed to be climate, not weather.

Second, the author of the underlying paper admits that his fossil records conflict with thermometric measurements taken in the overlapping period.  He prefers actual thermometric measurements over fossils.  Well, then what stock can be put into the fossil records?

Is he claiming to be able to measure "average global temperature" (whatever that means) to within one one-hundredth of a degree by fossillometry?  He must be, since the article quotes a 1.25 degree increase in temperature recorded by his fossils over a 7,000 year period.  I can't do that with my mercury thermometer, yet he prefers actual thermometric measurements over fossil measurements!

The article mentions temperature reversals at the end of the ice age, another towards cooling at 6,000 years ago. snd finally the claim that the earth was actually warmer 125,000 years ago than it is now. Well, contrary to the conclusion then, the world is not in uncharted territory!

The article fails to mention the medieval warm period and the more recent little ice age, or explain them.  The article fails to mention other explanations for the observed phenomenon.

The article leads one to make value judgements.  But, if mankind's use of carbon fuels has postponed the onset of another ice-age, as is bruited at the end of the piece, that's a good thing, right?  Akin to deflecting an asteroid before it hits the earth.

None of these people appear to know the purpose of the use of carbon dioxide in greenhouses.

What this piece from AP establishes is that the next onslaught of pious nonsense about global warming is going to concern the alleged implications of fossil records.
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