Quick Fact: WSJ's Freeman claims "there hasn't been any warming since 1998"; climate experts disagree
Wall Street Journal assistant editorial page editor James Freeman claimed that efforts to pass cap and trade legislation will fail because there is "no premise" for such legislation since "there hasn't been any warming since 1998," later adding that "there's no proof that this is happening as a result of man's activities, in fact, lately, it's not even happening anymore."
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From the November 21 edition of Fox News' The Journal Editorial Report:
FREEMAN: $800 billion is a lot of money. The cost is huge, and that's probably an underestimate. But, you know, there's also that little detail that there hasn't been any warming since 1998, so.
STUART VARNEY (host): But what really killed it here? Was it economics, was it the cost that killed it, or something else?
FREEMAN: Well, what is the argument for it? If you're saying this is a massive cost, even bigger than this crazy stimulus, even bigger than the TARP, and by the way, there's no proof that this is happening as a result of man's activities, in fact, lately, it's not even happening anymore. So it basically has no premise right now.
Fact: Climate scientists reject conservative claim that recent global average temperatures indicate global warming has stopped
Climate experts reject the idea that the relatively cooler global average temperatures in several of the last 10 years are any indication that global warming is slowing or does not exist. Scientists have identified a long-term warming trend spanning several decades that is independent from the normal climate variability -- which includes relatively short-term changes in climate due to events like El Niño and La Niña -- to which they attribute the recent cooler temperatures.
Fact: Climate experts overwhelmingly believe global warming caused by "man's activities"
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 "Synthesis Report" concluded that "[w]arming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level" and that "[m]ost of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely [defined in the report as a ">90%" chance] due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [human-caused] GHG [greenhouse gas] concentrations." According to its website, IPCC is "the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)," and "[t]housands of scientists from all over the world contribute to" its work.
You might find this comment interesting: "Many climate scientists believe the planet oscillates between warmer and colder periods without human intervention (italics mine) due to various factors related to its orbital path and also variations in heat output from the Sun on a millennial scale—and that we are naturally heading toward another ice age, regardless of greenhouse gas emissions, over the next several dozen millennia.
Source: http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/38582/
So much for the so-called "consensus" on man-made Global Warming.
Read more about the Ice Age at: http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Ice_Age.html
"Most years passed with good harvests and enough to eat. Average summer temperatures were between 0.7 and 1.0[degree]C above twentieth-century averages. Central European summers were even warmer, as much as 1.4[degrees]C higher than their modern averages. May frosts, always a hazard for warmth loving crops, were virtually unknown between 1100 and 1300." Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Agebasic books, 2000
"P.D. Nunn (2007). Most of this 300-page book can be found on Google books ... Nunn, who is a Professor of Geography and IPCC author, finds clear evidence for the MWP [mediaeval warm period] and a rapid cooling event around 1300 AD." http://globalwarmingquestions.googlepages.com/mwp
http://www.stanford.edu/~moore/Boon_To_Man.html
By the way, north africa and egyt were the bread basket of rome when they were cooling and rains were slowing but still sufficient.
NO FEAR
ugag, I'm willing to bet that I am more an environmentalist than you. As I've said before, it isn't possible for those in the AGW camp to fathom that an environmentalist and naturalist such as myself did not buy into the AGW propagandist drone.
I didn't need Al Gore to tell me to be a good steward of the Earth and its inhabitants. My family of three produces over a ton less garbage per year than the average American family. We are members of a number of environmental organizations and have been for a long time. We belong to a local farmer co-op. We compost, recycle, reuse, reduce, etc.
I am an environmentalist despite your protests. In fact, that is one of my primary gripes with all of this: the diversion of resources from real environmental issues and the potential damage to green causes when this AGW house of cards topples, as apparently now seems inevitable (thankfully).
I am also a scientist and inherently a skeptic (the foundation of science). I certainly will not be duped by the propagandists into believing in such a weak theory. I have instead read many papers and invested much time in independently investigating the issue. Have you? If not, you are just as much a religious zealot in preaching AGW as those who do believe in end times.
Best of luck with that approach. I prefer the less sheep-like route, thank you very much. In the meantime, chip...chip...chip...
"Most years passed with good harvests and enough to eat. Average summer temperatures were between 0.7 and 1.0[degree]C above twentieth-century averages. Central European summers were even warmer, as much as 1.4[degrees]C higher than their modern averages. May frosts, always a hazard for warmth loving crops, were virtually unknown between 1100 and 1300." Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Agebasic books, 2000
"P.D. Nunn (2007). Most of this 300-page book can be found on Google books ... Nunn, who is a Professor of Geography and IPCC author, finds clear evidence for the MWP [mediaeval warm period] and a rapid cooling event around 1300 AD." http://globalwarmingquestions.googlepages.com/mwp
Now then, global warming generally results in improved conditions so fear and rapid response are foolish.
Except for those coastal areas that will be flooded out of existence. Don't worry, your mountaintop retreat will be safe.
I suggest using the google and look up what the Pentagon has rated as the #1 national security issue.
(hint - it's global climate change)
Ocean temperatures have also been cooler since 2002.
"Most years passed with good harvests and enough to eat. Average summer temperatures were between 0.7 and 1.0[degree]C above twentieth-century averages. Central European summers were even warmer, as much as 1.4[degrees]C higher than their modern averages. May frosts, always a hazard for warmth loving crops, were virtually unknown between 1100 and 1300." Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Agebasic books, 2000
"P.D. Nunn (2007). Most of this 300-page book can be found on Google books ... Nunn, who is a Professor of Geography and IPCC author, finds clear evidence for the MWP [mediaeval warm period] and a rapid cooling event around 1300 AD." http://globalwarmingquestions.googlepages.com/mwp
just two...
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=83947f5d-d84a-4a84-ad5d-6e2d71db52d9
and move on to some independent research of your own here:
http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/
Actually, nothing is settled, including why temperatures are rising on other solar system planets and some satellites of those planets. Instead of frantic arm-waving encouraging others to throw money at something, try studying it a little more.
Come back when you truly are a common sense, smart, future looking liberal, quit falling for the endless left-wing fear mongering that is AGW.