Global warming denier Jim Inhofe: ‘Fewer and fewer’ senators believe in climate change ‘hoax’ By Travis GettysMonday, January 13, 2014 10:41 EDT The U.S.
Senate’s leading global warming denier says “fewer and fewer” of his colleagues believe in climate change. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) told WABC-AM that he was initially intrigued when former Vice President Al Gore began warning about human-induced climate change but became skeptical after discovering that environmental regulations might prove costly to business. He complained to talk show host Aaron Klein that progressives are using science to enact their “green schemes” agenda. “They don’t get away with it in the eyes of the American people,” Inhofe said. If that is indeed the case, U.S. senators would be breaking with the general trend on climate change. Recent polls have found that Americans increasingly believe that evidence supports global warming caused by human activity, albeit with a sharp partisan divide. Fewer Americans, however, cite global warming as a major threat than those in other countries. Hansen and Sato 2012.
Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated by Half. A new study by British and Canadian researchers shows that the global temperature rise of the past 15 years has been greatly underestimated.
The reason is the data gaps in the weather station network, especially in the Arctic. If you fill these data gaps using satellite measurements, the warming trend is more than doubled in the widely used HadCRUT4 data, and the much-discussed “warming pause” has virtually disappeared. Obtaining the globally averaged temperature from weather station data has a well-known problem: there are some gaps in the data, especially in the polar regions and in parts of Africa. As long as the regions not covered warm up like the rest of the world, that does not change the global temperature curve. But errors in global temperature trends arise if these areas evolve differently from the global mean. The “Arctic hole” is the main reason for the difference between the NASA GISS data and the other two data sets of near-surface temperature, HadCRUT and NOAA.
Climate: Cloud Mixing Means Extra Global Warming. A decline in ocean cloud cover projected in climate models points to more than 5.6°F (3°C) of global warming coming in this century, on the high end of past global warming estimates, warn climate scientists in a new study.
(See also: "Global Warming Effects Map. ") "This degree of warming would make large swaths of the tropics uninhabitable by humans and cause most forests at low and middle latitudes to change to something else," says Steven Sherwood of Australia's University of New South Wales, who led the study. The changes, Sherwood says, would take Earth "back to the climate of the dinosaurs or worse, and in a geologically minuscule period of time—less than the lifetime of a single tree. " Atmospheric scientists have long asked how high atmospheric temperatures will rise if greenhouse gases double. Cloud Cover Cook-Off In the study, the researchers looked at ocean clouds, which at low altitudes reflect sunlight and lead to cooler global temperatures.
Climate Sensitivity Settled?
Surface Temperature. Scorecard. Later. Basics of Climate Science. Green House Gasses. Energy Budget.