>From the article: Theories for the pause include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds are blocking the sun, or that greenhouse gases trap less heat than previously believed.
They forgot one: The scientist were flat out wrong. A rapid rise in global temperatures in the 1980s and 1990s - when clean air laws in developed nations cut pollution and made sunshine stronger at the earth's surface - made for a compelling argument that human emissions were to blame. Say what? This does not make a compelling argument that emissions were to blame. It makes the argument that cutting emissions is to blame. Greenhouse gas emissions have hit repeated record highs with annual growth of about 3 percent in most of the decade to 2010, partly powered by rises in China <http://www.reuters.com/places/china> and India. World emissions were 75 percent higher in 2010 than in 1970, UN data show. Yet there was no temperature explosion. The hockey stick was a lie. Pachauri said climate change can have counter-intuitive effects, like more snowfall in winter that some people find hard to accept as side-effects of a warming trend. An IPCC report last year said warmer air can absorb more moisture, leading to heavier snowfall in some areas. It's the: We can't lose argument. If it gets hotter, it's global warming. if it gets colder, it's global warming. Awesome. Some experts say their trust in climate science has declined because of the many uncertainties. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had to correct a 2007 report that exaggerated the pace of melt of the Himalayan glaciers and wrongly said they could all vanish by 2035. Uncertainties? What about outright lies. "The climate system is not quite so simple as people thought," said Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" who estimates that moderate warming will be beneficial for crop growth and human health. Ahhh. A breath of fresh air. A slight warming is much more beneficial than cold. Many more people die from cold weather than warm weather. J - "In fact, the Second Amendment was clearly designed with the mindset of protecting Americas citizens from people like Senator Feinstein: government officials, who want to impose their own will on the citizens of this country by any means necessary." - Jordan Hunter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362811 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
