Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn

A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.

The report — which is not scheduled for publication until 2014 — was leaked by someone involved in the IPCC’s review process, and is available for download online. Bloggers combing through the report discovered a chart comparing the four temperature models the group has published since 1990. Each has overstated the rise in temperature that Earth actually experienced.

“Temperatures have not risen nearly as much as almost all of the climate models predicted,” Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, told FoxNews.com.

“Their predictions have largely failed, four times in a row… what that means is that it’s time for them to re-evaluate,” Spencer said.

It figures it’s snowing outside as I post this…Can you find the money shot in the next two paragraphs?

But he says it does indicate that greenhouse gases are having less of an affect on climate than the IPCC thought.

“It is evidence that CO2 is not nearly as strong a climate driver as the IPCC has been assuming. This is the possibility they do not allow to be considered, because it would end all of their policy-changing goals,” he said.

I suggest that you read the whole article and then think about it as you drive to work in a (outrageously) priced hybrid or suffer the cost, low-performance and inconvenience of Ethanol tainted  fuel.

I love the free market system…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqMxM0pHAmA&feature=player_embedded

Seattle Gun BuyBack Get’s JACKED! Turns Into a Damn Gun Show! LOL

Also, the local ABC TV news affiliate covered the police buy-back and totally ignored the other story, private buyers outbidding police.  That’s like the old joke about a cub reporter who was sent to cover a society wedding. When he got back his editor asked him for his story, the cub replied,”No story Chief. The bride didn’t show up so there was no wedding.”.

The local Fox affiliate did cover the entire story, (Very good, you get a cookie).