Michael Mann is in the news again for making more outrageous claims, this time of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Quote:

“Dr. Mann is a climate scientist whose research has focused on global warming… As a result of this research, Dr. Mann and his colleagues have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize…”

A quick call to the Nobel Prize offices will disabuse you of this spectacular falsehood. The claim is made in his legal action against Mark Styne of the National Review mentioned in a previous post. His argument goes something like this.

In 2007 the Nobel Peace prize was jointly awarded to the IPCC and AL Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. Michael Mann contributed to the IPCC report that lead to them getting the prize, ipso facto Michael Mann was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Now let’s see – hmmmm? In 2012 The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”… I live in the Union and I have been part of that reconciliation and stuff – hells bells, I’ve been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize!! I’ll just ring the Nobel Prize Office to check. Oh, I haven’t won the Nobel Peace Prize. How disappointing.

Professor Phil Jones  – keeper of the world’s temperature, darling of the environmental movement, centre of the Climategate scandal, well, he has slipped some interesting figures onto the internet in the last week, very quietly, hoping no one will notice. Yes its official, from the Hadley CRU (via the British Meteorological office) which has been stoking the fires of Global warming hysteria these past few decades – Global Warming has stopped!

For 16 years now the World’s average temperature has remained static at 14.5 deg. C. Now I am not one to be too impressed by an average world temperature as it so happens. I think that an average world temperature is about as useful as an average of the numbers in a telephone book. I am also highly sceptical of the accuracy of the current temperature record. But that aside, for the shock troops of the army of Global Warming alarmism to admit that, even by their own biased figures, the World has not warmed in the last 16 years – hells bells this is some admission.

This disclosure has huge ramifications for people who are making claims about the effect on our environment of Global Warming. If Global Warming is not taking place, what credibility does that give to the research and claims that these individuals and organisations are making?

Now Phil Jones has qualified these inconvenient results. He points out that despite the temperature ‘pause’ that he believes that this decade will end up significantly warmer than the previous two.

Now let’s analyse this particular piece of double speak:

If I was driving a car at 30 miles an hour for one mile, then 50 miles an hour for a second mile and 60 miles an hour for a further half a mile and then told you that if I continue at 60 miles an hour for another half mile that the third mile would be travelled at a significantly higher speed than the previous two miles, would you be surprised? No of course you wouldn’t, in fact you would probably think I was treating you like an idiot for stating the obvious. Well, this is exactly what Jones has done. He has stated the obvious, but he has also been economical with the truth, because he, like the rest of his cadre, have been projecting a linear increase in the average world temperature in line with the (strangely) linear increase in the CO2 content of the atmosphere. His computer models (call them guesses) are shown to be wrong based on these latest figures.

Why is the north polar ice melting – well clearly it has nothing to do with Global warming.

Why is the south polar sea ice increasing – well nothing to do with Global warming, and so on and so on.  What will it take to put the brakes on this runaway trillion dollar global industry?

For more see here.

By Gordon G. Chang, Forbes

Sea levels have been rising inexorably since the end of the last Ice age about 10,000 years ago. We are currently in an interglacial period which will end in the not too distant future (in geological terms that is). We have also just exited a warm century – the 20^th – in fact it is the only century that has passed since the end of the little ice age (approximately 1300AD to 1850AD) so one would expect it to have been warmer than the 8 cold centuries that preceded it. So far the 21^st century has been slightly cooler than the 20^th– on average – though the sea level fall reported by NASA may only be temporary.

This article makes it clear that this temporary fall is due to short term weather cycles specifically a switch from El Nino to La Nina conditions. But could there be other factors? The Antarctic ice cap is thickening which (unlike the record sea ice levels in Antarctica) means there is less water going into the oceans and is not a temporary effect. Either way we are not looking at beach front property disappearing under the type of sea rises predicted by Al Gore (or any of his alarmist chums) in the near future.

Falling sea levels, record sea ice levels (Antarctic only), falling temperatures, record low levels of hurricanes, flooding – it would appear that the 21^st Century is becoming rather inconvenient for  the global warming industry.