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Decade of Global Cooling Called Temporary
Scientists at Germany’s Kiel University predict the Earth’s temperature will stay roughly the same in the coming decade as the planet’s natural climate cycle enters a cooling phase. But thereafter, the researchers expect temperatures to begin rising quickly by about 2020. – unless they don’t. The forecast centers around the ocean’s natural temperature cycles, called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), which is closely associated with the warm currents that carry heat from the tropics to European shores. “One message from our study is that in the short term, you can see changes in the global mean temperature that you might not expect given the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),” Noel Keenlyside of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University told BBC News.
Read the entire article in the Journal Science.
Karoly Versus Chapman and Carter Versus Gore and Global Warming
Geophysicist Chapman’s assertions on global warming provoked a sharp response from Dr. David Karoly of the University of Melborne published in the Australian April 29th saying Chapman is wrong in his assumptions and that global warming is correct, and will continue into the 21st century despite fluctuations like Chapman cites.
Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia has previously said, “Gore’s circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention.” Carter’s assessment is notwithstanding the hyperbolic most scientists agree “there is (i) absolutely no consensus on the degree of risk from human warming, and (ii) no direct evidence that CO2 is producing dangerous warming.”
Scientific debate can be lusty particularly when it is extracted for political purposes or hired out for other reasons as has been the allegations in global warming. “Produced facts,” otherwise known as fiction, like the styrofoam icebergs and staged polar bear scenes in Gore’s “documentary” An Inconvenient Truth raises the volume but doesn’t provide facts.
GORED BY STYROFOAM ICEBERGS
It turns out that AL GORE’S so-called documentary AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH “borrowed” its key scene from the fiction film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW of icebergs “calving” that was produced on a sound stage using Styrofoam ice. Gore looks evermore the prevaricator for contriving one of his key global warming arguments as simply stage craft. This added to the now infamous polar bear clip that turned out to be fabrication too making everything he says suspect. Gore’s argument is that facts should not get in the way of terrible message of the planet’s demise.
Mostly By Mankind
A spectacular, pulse racing recent National Geographic show called “Six Degrees Could Change the
World” and “An Inconvenient Truth” which garnered Al Gore it’s high profile author and promoter a Nobel Prize each have a similar point of view of science and man’s carbon based activities. Each in it’s own ways present the case that man made doom is on the way unless rich nations like the US reduce it’s oil consumption before it is too late. They believe it could be too late within 5 or 10 years.
Please contribute to thoughtful discussions on this issue which some say is “closed science” and others dispute.
