Saturday, July 19, 2008
Monckton and the Two Minutes Hate
Via NRO: the Physics branch of the Gaia Megachurch has played a classic Stalinist trick. Orwell defined it perfectly: Let dissidents speak "freely", while surrounding their speech with a context of dirt, discredit, and dementia. In 1984, dissident Emmanuel Goldstein gets his chance to speak for two minutes every week, surrounded by signals that he is a crazy Jew who wants to destroy you and prevert your vital bodily fluids.
The Physics branch of the Gaia megachurch has allowed Lord Monckton to publish a paper which systematically destroys every scrap of the "facts", logic, mathematics, and philosophy of the Global Warmers, but they place the following Two Minutes Hate title on top of his paper, thus signaling their fellow Gaia zealots to hiss, cuss, and throw eggs at Monckton during his speech:
I've read through the paper, trying to keep up with the math ... not very successfully. Still, the graphs tell the story nicely. The most dramatic one is the "tropical hotspot", which is an especially sharp warming at a certain altitude in the atmosphere near the equator. All the IPCC models predict this hot spot arising from anthropogenic warming, as opposed to solar or volcanic warming. The actual facts show no heating at this altitude and latitude. Instead, the actual data most closely resembles the pattern that should arise solely from volcanic emissions.
Monckton's concluding paragraph is worth reading on its own. It's a long series of "even ifs", disassembling the "facts" and logic of the Warmers step by step. ¶ 12:48 PM
The Physics branch of the Gaia megachurch has allowed Lord Monckton to publish a paper which systematically destroys every scrap of the "facts", logic, mathematics, and philosophy of the Global Warmers, but they place the following Two Minutes Hate title on top of his paper, thus signaling their fellow Gaia zealots to hiss, cuss, and throw eggs at Monckton during his speech:
I've read through the paper, trying to keep up with the math ... not very successfully. Still, the graphs tell the story nicely. The most dramatic one is the "tropical hotspot", which is an especially sharp warming at a certain altitude in the atmosphere near the equator. All the IPCC models predict this hot spot arising from anthropogenic warming, as opposed to solar or volcanic warming. The actual facts show no heating at this altitude and latitude. Instead, the actual data most closely resembles the pattern that should arise solely from volcanic emissions.
Monckton's concluding paragraph is worth reading on its own. It's a long series of "even ifs", disassembling the "facts" and logic of the Warmers step by step. ¶ 12:48 PM
