I'm just catching up on news, having been out and about all day.
Key paragraph
in the article:
Read carefully with other official data, they conceal a truth that for some, to paraphrase former US VicePresident Al Gore, is really inconvenient: for the past 15 years, global warming has stopped.
One needs to read the entire article for slowly and very carefully, but here is another excerpt:
But little by little, the supposedly settled scientific ' consensus' that the temperature rise is unprecedented, that it is set to continue to disastrous levels, and that it is all the fault of human beings, is starting to fray.
Earlier this year, a paper by Michael Mann - for years a leading light in the IPCC, and the author of the infamous 'hockey stick graph' showing flat temperatures for 2,000 years until the recent dizzying increase - made an extraordinary admission: that, as his critics had always claimed, there had indeed been a ' medieval warm period' around 1000 AD, when the world may well have been hotter than it is now.
Other research is beginning to show that cyclical changes in water vapour - a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - may account for much of the 20th Century warming.
A medieval warm period around 1000 AD when the world may well have been hotter than it is now: if true, no doubt due to the diesel-burning engines on all those Viking ships. I always wondered how those Viking ships could move so fast and so far. Now we know.
By the way, water vapor is a much bigger "greenhouse gas" than CO2 -- which this article points out. If you don't believe it, just step into a greenhouse and what do you notice more: CO2 or water vapor. As texters text: LOL.
Even without this story, "cap and trade" is dead in the water in the USA.
Updates, December 7, 2010
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