Fmr. Thatcher advisor Lord Monckton evicted from UN climate summit after challenging global warming -- 'Escorted from the hall and security officers stripped him of his UN credentials'
Monckton to UN: 'In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming'
Calls to 'deport Monckton' from UN conference in Qatar
Thursday, December 06, 2012By Marc Morano – Climate Depot
[Also see: New
Report from Climate Depot: 'Extreme Weather Report 2012': 'Latest
peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current
weather is 'unprecedented' or a 'new normal']#
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By Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter
Published: Thursday, December 6, 2012
[Reprint from E&E Greenwire - December 6, 2012 - subscription required]
Excerpt: UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a climate skeptic, gets evicted
After the news
conference, and as diplomats gathered for the climate conference
president's assessment of how close countries are to agreement, Monckton
quietly slipped into the seat reserved for the delegation of Myanmar
and clicked the button to speak.
"In the 16 years
we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global
warming," Monckton said as confused murmurs filled the hall and then
turned into a chorus of boos.
The stunt
infuriated negotiators and activists here who gather every year to
address what they believe is one of the world's top threats, the steady
rise of man-made global warming.
As Monckton was
escorted from the hall and security officers stripped him of his U.N.
credentials, several people noted that just a few hours earlier a group
of young activists had been thrown out of the convention center and
deported. Their crime: unfurling an unauthorized banner calling for the
Qatari hosts to lead the negotiations to a strong conclusion.
By late today, several activists attending the conference had posted calls to "deport Monckton" on their Twitter feeds.
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Climate Depot Note: Monckton was referring to the latest temperature data showing a 16 year stall in global warming.
Related links on 16 year global warming pause:
UK
Daily Mail: 'Global warming stopped 16 years ago' according to UK Met
Office 'quietly released' report -- 'Pause' in warming lasted about same
time as when temps rose, 1980 to 1996' -- 'The new data, compiled
from more than 3,000 measuring points on land & sea, was issued
quietly on internet, without any media fanfare, & , until today, it
has not been reported. This stands in sharp contrast to release of
previous figures 6 months ago, which went only to end of 2010 – a very
warm year...From beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no
discernible rise in aggregate global temps.'
UK
Daily Mail: 'Claim that there has been any statistically significant
warming for past 16 years is therefore unsustainable' -- Reaffirms 'a
16-year 'pause' in rising temps' -- 'Two new separate peer-reviewed
studies, published in prestigious academic journals last week
[challenged 'Hockey Stick'] -- 'The level of warmth during the peak of
the MWP in the second half of the 10th Century, equaled or slightly
exceeded the mid-20th Century warming.' There was also a pronounced
warming period in Roman times'
Prof.
Judith Curry on 16 year global temps: ' Nothing in Met Office's
statement...effectively refutes [UK Daily Mail] Rose's argument that
there has been no increase in global avg. surface temps for past 16
years' -- Curry defends UK Daily Mail article: 'How does this refute
Rose's argument? No statistically significant positive trend, and it
makes it look like [warmist Skeptical Science] hasn't done their
homework with the latest data'
Prof.
Curry: 'I think Rose's 2nd article is well done. He lays out arguments
the other 'side' is making, & provides his response. It is a
reasonable portrayal of debate surrounding this issue' -- Judith
Curry: 'The trend since 1997 is very small, much smaller than the
decadal trend of 0.2C that we have been led to expect by the IPCC for
the early part of the 21st century...'
Analysis
on 16 year 'pause' in global wamring: 'Regarding the significance of
the period from 1997, recall that Dr. Ben Santer claimed 17 years was
the period needed' -- 'They find
that tropospheric temperature records must be at least 17 years long to
discriminate between internal climate noise and the signal of
human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.' --
MIT Professor Richard Lindzen said something similar in a WUWT guest
post: 'There has been no warming since 1997 and no statistically
significant warming since 1995.'
Lüning/Vahrenholt
On HadCRUT's 16 Years Of No Warming: 'Tough Times Ahead For Climate
Science' -- 'It turns out that everything that had been suspected was
confirmed' -- 'This is a completely unexpected development when one
considers how all the boldly confident forecasts from the IPCC predicted
more warming. The release of new HadCRUT figures occurred almost in
absolute silence, without any media buzz whatsoever...One really has got
to wonder that Jones has suddenly extended his personal threshold of
pain to 20 years, and now claims that phases of no warming 15-16 years
long had always been expected.'
Prof.
Judith Curry: 'The data confirms existence of a 'pause' in warming':
'The natural variability has been shown over past 2 decades to have a
magnitude that dominates greenhouse warming signal' -- Curry: 'It is
becoming increasingly apparent that our attribution of warming since
1980 and future projections of climate change needs to consider natural
internal variability as a factor of fundamental importance. I sincerely
hope that the AR5 provides an assessment of what we know and what we
don't know and areas of disagreement, rather than trying to manufacture a
consensus.'
New Phil Jones quote: 'We don't know what natural variability is doing'
-- 'We don't fully understand how to input things like changes in the
oceans' -- '...and because we don't fully understand it you could
say that natural variability is now working to suppress the warming. We
don't know what natural variability is doing..'
Climategate's
Phil Jones 'insisted that 15 or 16 years is not a significant period:
pauses of such length had always been expected, he said' in 2012 --
'Yet in 2009, when the [temperature] plateau was already becoming
apparent and being discussed by scientists, Jones told a colleague in
one of the Climategate emails: 'Bottom line: the 'no upward trend' has
to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.' -- 'In other
words, though 5 years ago he seemed to be saying that 15 years without
warming would make him 'worried', that period has now become 20 years'
'The
UK Met Office says world has warmed by 0.03 deg C per decade since
1997...But what the Met Office doesn't say is that this is statistically
insignificant' -- 'There is no case to be made for a statistically
significant increase in global temperatures as given in the Hadcrut4
dataset between 1997 and August 2012. The Met Office says the 15-year
standstill is not unusual. This is true but again the Met Office is
being economical with the truth'
NOAA's
'15 year statement' from 2008 puts a kibosh on the current Met Office
'insignificance' claims that global warming flatlined for 16 years
-- 'Yet, today, we see evidence of the goalposts being moved again as
the Met Office tries to paint this lack of warming 'plateau' as being
insignificant...So we are at 16 years, soon to be 17 years. What happens
when we hit 20 years? Either the models are worth something or they
aren't. In this case it seems they aren't'
UK
Met Office: CO2 causes warming; other factors cause cooling -- 'We have
known for some time that [multi-decadal oceanic cycles] may act to slow
down or accelerate observed warming trend' -- 'We also know that
changes in the surface temperature occur not just due to internal
variability, but are also influenced by 'external forcings', such as
changes in solar activity, volcanic eruptions or aerosol emissions.
Combined, several of these factors could account for some or all of the
reduced warming trend seen over the last decade – but this is an area of
ongoing research'
Analysis: Global Warming Standstill Confirmed:
'There is now no consistent increase in temperature seen in this data.
The data, displayed this way, reveals that far from showing a steady
underlying rate of warming the global temperature has had two
standstills, with curiously, the 1998 super El Nino delineating them.'
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