So there you have it. The Global Warmists are latching on to a new argument: Global Warming causes Global Cooling...
Posted on 06/06/2008 10:09:52 PM PDT by melt
The deniers of global warming are about to latch on to a new argument. The world is cooling. And they are right - well, slightly.
Globally, this year is likely to be the coolest for some time - back to the average of the early 90s, according to some unpublished forecasts. This is no refutation of man-made global warming. It is the inevitable consequence of one of nature's climatic cycles. The La Niña, the cold phase of the El Niño cycle in the Pacific, has sent average global temperatures plunging this year.
And there is more. Longer term climate cycles that play out over a decade or so will also be working to cool us in the coming decade. In particular, changes in the currents of the north Atlantic - which have caused Europe to warm more than anywhere else in the past decade and helped melt all that Arctic ice - are about to go into reverse.
A Germany study published earlier this month predicts the world will cool over the coming decade. British climate modellers at the Met Office don't go so far. They think nature's cooling will be more than counterbalanced by the warming effect of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
But nobody is sure. In any case, we can expect the deniers to make the most of this opportunity to pour cold water on the whole climate change narrative. No year has yet been hotter than 1998, they will say. True: it was a huge El Niño year. Now we are on the way back down, they will say. Nonsense. The underlying trend remains upwards; and as every decade passes, natural cycles can do less and less to counter the growing human influence on temperature.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
So there you have it. The Global Warmists are latching on to a new argument: Global Warming causes Global Cooling...
What tripe. Cooling —> Natural and Good, even though it leads to crop failure and starvation. Warming —> Man made and Bad, even though it leads to a more temperate world more conducive to growing crops.
Oh, so now we actually have "climatic cycles". Thanks for the update.
Wait. Let me get this straight: Cooling is just a part of nature's cycle but a numerically smaller amount of warming over a longer period of time is a man made catastrophe?
Mark Twain talked about invincible ignorance. He was too optimistic.
Lets see if I have the Guardian’s logic straight.
Warming caused by man.
Cooling caused by nature’s usual cycles.
It’s kind of cool this evening so I’m thinking a good ole’ carbon belch should help warm things up.
The phrase "nature's climatic cycles" is a refutation of man-made global warming however.
The promoters of global warming had predicted accelerated warming by now.
The deniers of global warming had predicted that it would start cooling by now.
Now exactly who is latching on to a "new" argument?
It starts with an idea: man is bad for the world. Facts are filtered and organized to support the preconception. Any facts which can't be made to fit are ignored. If it's actually getting colder instead of warmer, that's only temporary. It must be El Niño. It couldn't be the sun.
If you don't fall into line, you are a “denier”. Lemmings.
“The deniers of global warming...
Should we start calling them the Global Cooling deniers?
It’s the “white guilt” thing, applied to an entire species.
Well physicists, unlike global warming alarmists, have known the overwhelmingly dominant greenhouse gas is water vapor, and that carbon dioxide has almost no effect at all, stupid.
“Global warming” hoax BUMP!
Hey, I'm just curious...... would these people be as alarmed or upset if the global warming was not man-made? Would they point out some of the benefits of warming?
One more question; If we all agreed that global warming is man-made, just how hot do they think we could make it?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.