August 21, 2009

Main-stream media starting to notice

Finally... From the McClatchy news service:
Drop in world temperatures fuels global warming debate
Has Earth's fever broken?

Official government measurements show that the world's temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998.

That's given global warming skeptics new ammunition to attack the prevailing theory of climate change. The skeptics argue that the current stretch of slightly cooler temperatures means that costly measures to limit carbon dioxide emissions are ill-founded and unnecessary.

Proposals to combat global warming are "crazy" and will "destroy more than a million good American jobs and increase the average family's annual energy bill by at least $1,500 a year," the Heartland Institute, a conservative research organization based in Chicago, declared in full-page newspaper ads earlier this summer. "High levels of carbon dioxide actually benefit wildlife and human health," the ads asserted.
Why do none of the climate models that the warmists are using account for the sun being a variable star? And why do none of the models predict with any accuracy events leading up to the present when fed 200 years of prime historical data? Posted by DaveH at August 21, 2009 3:33 PM