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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J.B.C. who wrote (2710)	7/6/2011 8:47:20 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 4326

Think It's Getting Hotter? Think Again ........................................................................................... July 6, 2011 investors.com The most recent "climate change" news is not about rising sea levels, baking temperatures or an increase in deadly storms. No, the latest news is that the world did not warm between 1998 and 2008. The study discussed in the editorial above discovered that, although global warming alarmists still claim the sky is burning, Earth's temperatures did not rise over that 10-year period. In fact, global temperatures actually fell 0.2 degrees Celsius between 2005 and 2008. In "reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature," the Boston University researchers found that despite the "widely noted increase in the warming effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations," "global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008." It's not clear why, the researchers say. The cooling effect of sulfur emissions, specifically from "large increases in coal consumption in Asia in general, and China in particular," may be one factor. But man did not act alone, the researchers say, in causing the temperature to flatline. Natural factors cited in the report include "declining solar insolation and a change from El Nino to La Nina conditions." Since it's impossible to say with any degree of certainty why Earth hasn't heated as so many predicted it would, we don't want to debate here any speculation that tries to explain what is responsible for the lack of warming. We do want to point out, though, that the researchers did acknowledge that the "recent hiatus in warming is driven largely by natural factors." What we want readers to remember is this: Our world's temperature, if such a thing can indeed be accurately measured, has remained steady over a period in which man's emissions of carbon dioxide, considered by activists to be the top global warming gas, have increased steadily — from roughly 369 parts per million to about 388. Subscribe to the IBD Editorials Podcast Global warm-ongers have been on shaky ground for some time, and these recent findings don't help their cause. True believers such as Al Gore and agenda-driven scientists will continue to talk about the "warmest year ever." But most of the hot air can be traced to activists yammering to a tuned-out public. If meteorologist Anthony Watts is right and 2011 ends up being cooler than any year of the last decade, the alarmists' grip on the public's attention, and their ability to raise money, will slip even further. This is one way movements die, especially those that had no substance to begin with.