Evidence refutes global warming
WorldOil Magazine, February 2002, Editorial Comment
There seems to be a steady stream of media stories about how this or that proves the GW theory, but the other side of the argument rarely gets mentioned. Thus, we were not surprised when some new evidence challenging GW was buried in a small article in the local newspaper.
According to an Associated Press story, new measurements show the ice in West Antarctica is thickening, reversing earlier estimates that it was melting. Now, one would think that this should assuage scientists' concerns that higher temperatures would melt the massive ice sheet and cause worldwide sea levels to rise.
Two researchers from California (yes, California) say that if the thickening is not merely part of a short-term fluctuation, it represents a reversal of the long retreat of the ice. These findings by Ian Jouglin of the California Institute of Technology and Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, come less than a week after a separate paper in Nature reported that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys have grown noticeably cooler since the mid-80s. In that study, air temperatures recorded over a 14-year period ending in 1999 were stated to have declined by about 1°F in the polar deserts and across the "White Continent."
The scientists say that Antarctica is the only continent that is cooling. But they could not say why. Could it be that they have been wrong about the other continents as well? |
