P Gosselin @ NoTricksZone:
After a foray in a cult, one of the first steps on the path back to reality is the process of deprogramming. Could it be that this step is now being self-administered by the German mainstream media? It appears so.
Harald Martenstein: “…it seems they are allowed to get away with everything.” Photo credit: Lumu, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2Now that the global mean temperature curve has drifted out of and below the IPCC’s projected range, panic is breaking out.
The mother of German green weeklies, Die Zeit, appears to be taking measurements at the back of the house in preparation for the installation of a back door! Rahmstorf is back there with them, trying to talk them out of it.
Leading lefty journalist Harald Martenstein of Die Zeit, a weekly that recentlyportrayed Marc Morano as the Don Corleone of the North American climate denial syndicate, has an amusingly satirical essay on the misfortunes of climate science and modeling: On the surprises of climate change. Hat/tip: klimazwiebel. If you can read German, his essay is a jewel in irony and humor to behold. Effective because few things convey a message better than music or humor.
Martenstein, once a devout believer of the global warming religion, apparently he has been struggling to reconcile the glaring differences between climate expectations and hard reality.
All of those ignorant people who touted consensus of scientists proves that AGW is real were raking in the grant money. Science isn’t about consensus, it is about proof. Computer models are only used to develop hypotheses and are not scientific proof. The models need to be proved through observations. Now that observations do not match the models and funding isn’t as readily available during poor economic times, those who were once called skeptics may now be called visionary! No, there are too many worshiping at the knee of liberalism where ideas are more important than scientific proof.
Here is some of Harald Martenstein’s article, computer translated:
To all supporters of AGW: beware!
There is no science there.
Find the graphs which show the infrared absorption spectrum of carbon dioxide. Consider the re-radiation time period. Look at the facts.
The major greenhouse gas is water vapor. And the water vapor depends on cosmic rays, because of their effect in producing clouds.
The evidence is overwhelming: carbon dioxide levels trail temperature changes by about 500 years (this from meticulous ice core analysis).
The evidence is overwhelming: temperature is strongly dependent on solar radiation (who would have guessed?). And the cycle of sunspots, which strongly affects the delta of solar flux, is itself quite variable (see the well-attested Maunder Minimum). Then check on the most recent solar flux measurements. We are headed for cooling.
These facts are not subject to government grants. These facts are observations.
Funny how Governor cummo of New Yawk fails to get the message. I’m sure global warming was the triggering event that propelled the two Muslim brothers to 5 days of reality show status in the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Just because cummo says so, it must be true. Maybe the whole event will be classified as a workplace violence in response to the various efforts to showcase the fraud inherent in the so-called scientific failures/(fraud) of the global warming redistribution crowd.
@Randy: #1: Did you mean “agendas are more important than scientific proof”?