To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (535644 ) 12/10/2009 3:05:35 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to But I for one remain skeptical, especially when the global warming movement has been taken over by extremists in the UN who are now claiming that global warming increases prostitution. Sorry, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Or a measure of faith. "Could this be evidence against global warming? The scientists, David Easterling of the National Climatic Data Center and Michael Wehner of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, say that up-and-down temperatures year-to-year don't undermine the overwhelming evidence for global warming."The reality of the climate system is that, due to natural climate variability, it is entirely possible to have a period as long as a decade or two of 'cooling' superimposed on the longer-term warming trend due to anthropogenic [human-caused] greenhouse gas forcing," write the authors. "Climate scientists pay little attention to these short-term fluctuations as the short term 'cooling trends' mentioned above are statistically insignificant and fitting trends to such short periods is not very meaningful in the context of long-term climate change." Further evidence for a warming world is that the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998 and that even though 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, it was still the 8th-warmest year on record."
