Climate Change Models Got It Wrong, Say Researchers

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Environment: The global warming models, as we have said repeatedly, are hopelessly flawed. Earth is not going to heat up as they have projected. Scientific research out of Norway confirms this.

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, maybe the most hysterical organization ever established, has predicted temperatures to rise by 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 if by then, carbon dioxide levels double from their preindustrialized levels of 1750. Such a projection has prompted much hair-pulling and routine public hand-wringing.

But never mind.

The Research Council of Norway plugged in real temperature data from 2000 to 2010 and from its calculations, determined that an increase in temperature due to a doubling of CO2 would be 1.9 degrees Celsius.

That number, of course, is really no more than a midpoint. The researchers say the increase could actually be as high as 2.9 degrees or as little as 1.2.

But even the 2.9-degree increase "is substantially lower than many previous calculations have estimated," the council noted.

"Thus, when the researchers factor in the observations of temperature trends from 2000 to 2010, they significantly reduce the probability of our experiencing the most dramatic climate change forecast up to now."

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