Wednesday, 21 January 2009

It's time to pray for global warming...

...the mantra is; atmospheric CO2 levels are escalating and this is unquestionably causing earth's temperature rise. But - if global temperatures are experiencing the biggest sustained drop in decades, while CO2 levels continue to rise - how can the mantra be true?
If you're wondering why North America is starting to resemble nuclear winter, then you missed the news. At December's U.N. Global Warming conference in Poznan, Poland, 650 scientists from around the world stood up and said man-made global warming is a media generated myth without basis. Said climatologist Dr. David Gee, Chairman of the International Geological Congress, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?" and...
“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.
I asked myself, why would such obviously smart guys say such ridiculous things? But it turns out they're right.

The earth's temperature peaked in 1998. It's been falling ever since; it dropped dramatically in 2007 and got worse in 2008, when temperatures touched 1980 levels...more here...
Yet, from James Hansen..."Before the end of Obama's first term, we will be seeing new record temperatures. I can promise the President that." As the article in the NZ Herald observes..."Hansen's uncompromising views are, in some ways, unusual. "
P.S. Although to be fair, note this survey...

1 comment:

Charles Pierce said...

I was interested to find your Micky's Muses blog. 20 years ago I had a book published on different economic concepts to point the way to a sustainable world economy. Someone who liked the book contacted me this year to suggest that I update and re-publish it as a blog. She set up the blog, and the book is now complete on the blog in a series of postings. There are now also additional pieces on global warming and other subjects. Here is the link:

http://www.economicsforaroundearth.com

With all good wishes,
Charles Pierce