Gerard Wynn, over at Reuters asks “What happened to Global Warming?”
It’s not just that it’s disappeared from media headlines this year - shoved off by the credit crunch and natural disasters, for example. It can’t be ignored that 2007 came and went as another very warm year - the 7th hottest on record since 1850 according to the World Meteorological Organization.
But it wasn’t a record. In fact that was 1998, a full 10 years ago - the year of an exceptional El Nino, a Pacific weather pattern which heats the whole globe. So is global warming not living up to the hype?
Two weeks ago Leibniz Institute’s Noel Keenlyside stirred an academic hornet’s
nest by saying that we may have to wait longer - a decade or more - for another
peak year, because a natural weakening in ocean currents may be cooling sea
temperatures.Many scientists flatly rejected the idea, saying Keenlyside had over-estimated the effect. But some pointed out that a recent switch in a weather pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation could indeed cool temperatures globally.
Along with the gratuitous photograph of floating ice, this author actually covered a little of the other side. Well one paragraph anyway.
Meanwhile one or two doubters are already saying the present lull in warming
casts doubt on just how far manmade greenhouse gases are influencing the climate. MIT’s Richard Lindzen reckoned that if it was as bad as all that temperatures would be rising faster.What do you think?
Well, what do you think? You could always comment here, there, or both.
Fabulous article! I completely agree. Global warming is the largest hoax the world have ever seen yet there are so many people that think humans can significantly impact something as large and complex as the climate of the earth. The sun has a greater impact than humans ever could. Thanks for getting the conservative word out there for people who need to know the craziness of the leftist, elitist, and liberal ideas that are out there.
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