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David Archibald, an Australian scientist and visiting fellow at the The Institute of World Politics (IWP) in Washington, D.C., said during an IWP presentation Wednesday that contrary to a perceived consensus among the scientific community, the planet's climate is not warming. Global temperatures have essentially remained flat in the last thirty years, he said.
While temperatures have increased by a modest 0.8 degrees Celsius in the last 150 years, that rise is unremarkable compared to previous increases in earth's history, he said. Temperature spikes have occurred for hundreds of thousands of years and were slightly higher in the Roman Empire and Medieval periods, he added, according to a Swedish study and data from ice cores in Vostok, Antarctica.
Additionally, about 80 percent of the warming that has occurred can be attributed to water vapor compared to about 10 percent for carbon dioxide, said Archibald. The IPCC's report, scheduled for release Friday, is expected to state with 95 percent certainty that greenhouse-gas emissions generated by humans are responsible for 20th century warming.
"The IPCC models have failed," Archibald said, adding that meetings like the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark are "hilarious."
Archibald, credited as the first scientist to develop a method for using solar sunspot cycles to predict temperatures, instead said solar activity suggests global temperatures will cancel out previous warming and fall 2 to 3 degrees Celsius by 2040.
That could wreak havoc on the world's food supply by potentially reducing global grain production by 400 million tonnes - mirroring the skyrocketing crop costs and 200,000 European deaths sparked by the 1816 eruption of Mt. Tambora in Indonesia.
"There will be at least one consolation. Phil Jones, Michael Mann, James Hansen and Al Gore will all, most likely, still be around to see their entire religious belief system collapsing around their ears," wrote James Delingpole, a writer for the Telegraph, in a post last year on Archibald's work.
See slides from Archibald's presentation here.
It is worth taking a look at Archibalds presentation slideshow:
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His predictions for the coming cooling are quite scary showing that the cooling of the past few years is going to massively accelerate.pretty much as from now. The predicitons are based on the serious science of solar activity and the known strong correlations between it and global mean temperatures, effects which are completely ignored by those riding the IPCC gravy train.
His presentation also shows how sea levels correlate well with solar activity, that sea level data is "adjusted" to make sea level rises appear ten times greater than the raw data tells us and he shows how the corn belt will move South in the USA over the coming years threatening grain production in Canada with extinction.
Preparations for this unfolding disaster have not been made because of the fakery in so called climate science and the price for this will be much greater than the hundreds of billions already squandered on our new and very flakey green infrastructure. There is one exception to this of note: corn based ethanol production can (and will) be stopped to release this wasted food resource for human consumption. It is a buffer providing a useful safety margin which can save the lives of millions.
The time for action lies mostly behind us.
Let the catastrophe begin.