HIGH NOON PASSES–Global Warming Doesn’t Show Up At The Inaugural

by Sam Kazman on January 20, 2009 · 5 comments

in Energy, Global Warming, Regulation

Well, the noon temperature in Washington DC at the President Obama’s swearing-in was 28 degrees F., eight degrees colder than when Bush was sworn in eight years ago.

So is that what Bush’s much bally-hooed failure to curb CO2 emissions produced in the way of climate change—a Inauguration Day for Obama that’s eight degrees colder than Bush’s inauguration eight years ago? Shouldn’t more CO2 mean warming, not cooling?

Well, as I said in my earlier post today, this is not scientifically significant. But it is funny.

It’s also in line with the lack of warming of the last decade, and with the global cooling we’ve experienced over the last three years. This has occurred even though atmospheric CO2 levels have continued to increase. That is scientifically significant—it casts quite a bit of doubt on the climate models that supposedly indicate that higher CO2 levels mean higher temperatures.

By the way, if we forget about Inaugural Day temperatures and compare Bush’s first year in office with his last year, we find global cooling as well. The British Hadley Centre shows a lower overall global temperature for 2008 than for 2001.

So here we’ve got rising CO2 and declining global temperatures. Just what kind of demon gas is this carbon dioxide?

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Charles Pierce, Aust January 20, 2009 at 5:34 pm: I was interested to find your Open Market blog. 20 years ago I had a book published on different economic concepts to point the way to a sustainable world economy. Someone who liked the book contacted me this year to suggest that I update and re-publish it as a blog. She set up the blog, and the book is now complete on the blog in a series of postings. There are now also additional pieces on global warming and other subjects. Here is the link:

http://www.economicsforaroundearth.com

With all good wishes,

Charles Pierce
Dreadnaught January 21, 2009 at 12:13 pm: Don't you know, if it is colder, that only proves global warming.
Allen January 22, 2009 at 9:11 am: Sure, those things cast some doubt. But you can go beyond casting doubt. IIRC not a single climate model that predicts warming has yet had successful back testing. That just flat out says there are still too much we don't know to even have an inkling of what may happen in the future.
Dreadnaught January 23, 2009 at 2:42 am: If only things could be simple. We could just blame man, buy a Prius, and think everything is going to be just fine.