Posted on 02/11/2007 6:39:36 AM PST by Valin
I not only remember history, I remember fairy tales as well...such as the Pied Piper.
And The Emperor's New Clothes. Talk about PR jobs!
LOL!
Some things are dead giveaways, aren't they!
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Noooooooooo! The sun can't cause climate change until politicans learn how to tax it!
excellent... thanks...
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But you're not alone, there are three duplicate threads.
It's a shame we don't see more Green House Gas debunkers.
The moonbats beat these poor guys up brutally whenever that find them.
Remember that after 1998, because 1999 was a La Nina year, the trend starting in 1998 was a strong cooling. That's changed as subsequent years have been warmer, and 2005 was only a tick under 1998.
Yet more betting on climate with World Climate Report
I think El Nino this year has pretty much fizzled, so I don't think 2007 will be a record year (I could be wrong, of course).
But, as pointed out, the critical thing to see is that average tmperatures have NOT increased the past 8 years (1998 through 2006-2007: they HAVE remained steady, DESPITE the tremendous increase in greenhouses gasses from China and India and Brazil over those 8 years!
There's no expectation of linearity in a chaotic system, and the CO2 concentration is only going up a couple ppm. Over time, that becomes significant. In any given year, that's not much different than the year before. (Remember, you liked my post about the difference between climate and weather - a decade is barely enough to discern climate trends.
But... imagine if there had not been a monstrous El Nino in 1998, and it had been a normal or just slightly warmer year due to a moderate El Nino. Then what would the trend look like? 1998 threw off everything -- it yanked a small positive trend significantly higher, and it's so big that it disturbs perception of the underlying trend.
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