The Church of Man
Back in the early 1500s, astronomers had a real problem calculating the location of the planets and the sun. The religion of the time required that planets and sun orbit the earth, and so astronomers used horrendously complicated calculations to do their work. Astronomers knew from the time of the ancient Greeks that planetary motion made a lot more sense if they made the assumption that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun instead. The numbers were off a bit, but that was because their religious belief was that the heavens were perfect, and objects could only move in perfect circles. Orbits are more of an ellipse. But even without knowing that, planetary movement made a whole lot more sense with the sun at the center rather than the Earth. And if they had overcome their first preconception, the second would have been solved fairly quickly.
That, however, required ignoring their human-centric religion, and so, for the most part, they stuck with their complicated calculations.
Move forward to the early 2000s. It turns out that if you take the current major climate model and remove the human-centric belief in man-made global warming suddenly the climate model becomes both simpler and more accurate. Hat tip to AJStrata.
- Heliocentrism (Wikipedia)
- “The Greek Aristarchus of Samos, in the 3rd century BC, was the first known person to speculate that the Earth revolves around a stationary sun.”
- Reformation In The Church Of Al Gore/IPCC?
- “Now another IPCC group has come out and proven that the Ocean water temperatures can be shown to have caused the global warming we have seen recently—not CO2 (man-made or otherwise). What this group did was run those models at the Church of Al Gore/IPCC which keep screaming ‘the world is going to end unless you pay high taxes on energy’ on their outputs but with a different set of assumptions. They DELETED the CO2 factor and just ran them with Ocean Temperature measurements. Guess what happened?”
- Rethinking Observed Warming
- “Atmospheric model simulations of the last half-century with prescribed observed ocean temperature changes, but without prescribed GHG changes, account for most of the land warming.”
More global warming
- Lord Christopher Monckton in San Diego
- I went to see the Americans Protecting Private Property Rights presentation by Lord Christopher Monckton about the economic and scientific fallacies of the anthropogenic global warming movement last night. It was mostly stuff I’ve seen before, mainly from the climategate emails and software leak.
- Climate scientists say Hispanics, Africans mentally ill
- Study links living in warmer climates to increased rates of mental illness.
- Apocalypse cult: world will end in fire
- Influential apocalypse cult predicts end of world “within five to two hundred years”.
- Coal in their stockings: climategate Christmas
- If unknown data tracks known bad data, it’s a good guess there’s something wrong with the unknowns as well.
- Google hacked by climategate deniers?
- I can’t believe that Google would actually remove climategate from their common search drop-down. But something appears to be happening here.
- One more page with the topic global warming, and other related pages