Quote of the week: Adrian Scaife of the UK Met Office

Posted: July 10, 2011 by tallbloke in climate, weather

We now believe that [the solar cycle] accounts for 50 per cent of the variability from year to year

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/35145bee-9d38-11e0-997d-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1RacNghPj

Comments
  1. Gerry says:
    July 10, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    This article marks the beginning of the end of AGW groupthink. Even the most brazen propagandists are not going to claim that mankind is to blame for the solar cycle.

  2. J Martin says:
    July 10, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    somehow I doubt that their intentions are honest. I think that the AGW zoo are looking for an exit strategy and this is part of that, along with the recent publication of graphs from GISS showing no rise in temperature, and graphs from Hadcrut showing a decline in temperature over the last ten years, and the recent amateurish excuse of aerosols from China.

    They will be looking to reposition themselves as being the discoverers of cooling and will adopt and claim all the science done by the sceptics as their own. They will likely be fairly succesful in this as they have positions and status eg. Hanson – NASA.

    They will state that it was their invaluable work on co2 that lead them to this discovery and that it confirms that they were right about co2 all along. And that the Global cooling was simply masking the co2 problem and that the need to destroy the economy of the Western World remains urgent.

    I live in hope that Santor, Mann, Hanson, Jones, will all go to jail, but I don’t expect to see it.

  3. tallbloke says:
    July 11, 2011 at 8:24 am

    I see Anthony already picked this one up too. Some entertaining comments here:

    The Met Office, eyes wide open

  4. Hidden in plain sight | The Digital Glebe says:
    July 21, 2011 at 2:36 pm

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