AGW panic ending with a whimper
<p>This is how the AGW panic ends: <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissions">not with a bang, but with a whimper</a>.</p>
<p>The Economist, which (despite a recent decline) remains probably the best news magazine in the English language, now admits that (a) global average temperature has been flat for 15 years even as CO2 levels have been rising rapidly, (b) surface temperatures are at the lowest edge of the range predicted by IPCC climate models, (c) on current trends, they will soon fall clean outside and below the model predictions, (c) estimates of climate sensitivity need revising downwards, and (d) something, probably multiple things, is badly wrong with AGW climate models.</p>
<p>Do I get to say &#8220;I told you so!&#8221; yet?  </p>
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<p>The wheels are falling off the bandwagon.  The Economist has so much prestige in the journalistic establishment that it&#8217;s going to become difficult now for the mainstream media to continue averting their eyes from the evidence. Honest AGW advocates have been the victims of a massive <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1642">error cascade</a> enlisted in aid of a vast and vicious series of political and financial scams; it&#8217;s time for them to wake up and realize they&#8217;ve been had, taken, swindled, conned, and used.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t but think the record cold weather in England has got something to do with this.  Only a few years ago AGW panicmongers were screaming that British children would never see another snowfall &#8211; now they&#8217;re struggling with <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265333/Big-freeze-4-days-Chaos-roads-rail-runways-worse-snow-returns.html">nastier winter weather</a> than has been seen in a century.  Perhaps the big chill woke somebody at The Economist up?</p>
<p>And if you think I&#8217;m gloating now, wait until GAT actually falls far enough below the low end of IPCC projections that the Economist has to admit <em>that</em>.  I plan to be unseemly and insufferable about it, oh yes I do.</p>
