Despite "global warming" and an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, some UN Scientists are now asserting a likely cooling trend. Here's the story:
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
The scientists’ predictions also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.
Fundamentally, this is the basis for the conclusion:
They say that their research shows that much of the warming was caused by oceanic cycles when they were in a ‘warm mode’ as opposed to the present ‘cold mode’.
This challenge to the widespread view that the planet is on the brink of an irreversible catastrophe is all the greater because the scientists could never be described as global warming ‘deniers’ or sceptics.
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The problem, of course, is that Al Gore and other policitians continue to assert that the "science is settled" and that "the world is facing imminent disaster without drastic cuts in CO2". The more recent analysis referred to above suggests that fears of a worldwide catastrophy are unfounded and that draconian measures, including complete control of the means of production, may be motivated by something other than science.
It won’t be, but this should be good news to the climate hysterics: They won’t die of global warming. – Second Hand Smoke
