Another Reason The Global Warmists Lost II

They ignore the realities that are smacking them upside the head.

From one of the leading climate scientists on the planet:

"The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty we can't."

Yet the AP's resident environmentalist sees things otherwise.

Seth Borenstein:

Global Warming Has Sped Up Since Kyoto
Writing in Time magazine

Washington — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.

And it's not just the frozen parts of the world that have felt the heat in the dozen years leading up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen:

• The world's oceans have risen by about an inch and a half.

• Droughts and wildfires have turned more severe worldwide, from the U.S. West to Australia to the Sahel desert of North Africa.

• Species now in trouble because of changing climate include, not just the lumbering polar bear which has become a symbol of global warming, but also fragile butterflies, colorful frogs and entire stands of North American pine forests. [link]

Oh, and presumably with a straight face, Borenstein adds a fourth bullet:

• Temperatures over the past 12 years are 0.4 of a degree warmer than the dozen years leading up to 1997.

0.4°.  (Most estimates put the number at 0.2°, but neither is anything more than a rounding error or calculations that easily fall within what is called the margin of error).

0.4°.  The temperature outside has risen more than that since I started writing this post and yet no wildfires have ensued and no butterflies have expired.

But beyond that bit of idiocy, there is what we call reality:

The planet has not warmed at all this century.

How much longer are these snakes going to get away with this?