viernes, 18 de octubre de 2013

Dos apuntes y un gran articulo: la bolsa, los extremismos y R. Lindzen

-Hoy el índice de la bolsa de Madrid ha alcanzado nuevamente los 10000. Razón la de siempre, pura especulación. No tiene nada que ver con la economía real. Hoy por ejemplo también se ha disparado la morosidad de la banca española al 12%, ha estallado el problema de Fagor, etc, etc
-Cuando las noticias son sensacionalistas sin base científica ocurre lo que muestro en la fotografía y que no merece más comentario.
-Excelente y recomendable artículo de Richard Lindzen del Massachusetts Institute of Technology "UNDERSTANDING THE IPCC CLIMATE ASSESSMENT" en GWPF.
Each IPCC report seems to be required to conclude that the case for an international agreement to curb carbon dioxide has grown stronger. That is to say the IPCC report (and especially the press release accompanying the summary) is a political document, and as George Orwell noted, political language “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
 With respect to climate, we have had 17 years without warming; all models show greater tropical warming than has been observed since 1978; and arctic sea ice is suddenly showing surprising growth. And yet, as the discrepancies between models and observations increase, the IPCC insists that its confidence in the model predictions is greater than ever................