Joe's Garage

[Tim7139]

Originally Posted by bliss

There has been no “global warming” since January 1997.

This is clearly shown by the most reliable global temperature dataset – the RSS satellite records – and was even grudgingly acknowledged in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment report. While still insisting that there has been a slight warming – an increase, since 1998, of around 0.05 degrees C per decade – the IPCC had in all honesty to admit that this is smaller than the 0.1 degrees C error range for thermometer readings, and consequently statistically insignificant.

But if there has been no “global warming” for nearly 19 years how can alarmist proselytizers like Joe (Joe's Garage) possibly hope to convince an increasingly skeptical public that this apparently non-existent problem yet remains the most pressing concern of our age?

As long as you decided to drop this, you'd be well advised to learn a hell of a lot more about how that IPCC report gets constructed.
There are multiple independant studies and detailed analysis on a wide strata of topics all related to climate.
What you refer to is the widely publicized " summary report" which is exactly what it sounds like, a summation in abbreviated form for folks without the time or will to chop through the detailed data.
Interesting point #1..... Nowhere in any of the individual reports in the most recent effort make ANY of the fairly aggressive assumptions the IPCC does which, by the way, is pushing hard for unified treaty agreement.( don't need a treaty without a crises).
Interesting point #2....... Leading he summation charge, for instance, are the noted luminaries from the University of Nigeria.( I **** you not).
Interesting point #3...... Many on the IPCC panel represent 3rd world countries instituting legal actions in the world court against developed nations such as, say, the USA ( there's a surprise) for damages resulting from...........wait for it............ Global climate agression, because apparantly, we don't give them enough $ to steal, defraud, or otherwise squander, while their citizens starve.