Science News: Expert says climate cooling misinterpreted

UPI.com ^ | December 28, 2010

[Oldeconomybuyer]

CANBERRA, Australia -- Recent short-term cooling of global temperatures shouldn't be misinterpreted as meaning an end to global warming, an Australian expert says.

Barrie Wanker-Hunt of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization says overall global warming is happening despite natural variability that can bring periods where the global climate can be either cooler or warmer than usual.

Seasonal cold spells can still be expected under enhanced greenhouse conditions, he says.

"Future changes in global temperature as the concentration of greenhouse gases increases will not show a simple year-on-year increase but will vary around a background of long-term warming," he says.

This underlying warming trend, he says, will highlight the need to both adapt to what is now inevitable change and mitigate even greater changes.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[ClearCase_guy]

Weather -- sometimes it's hotter, and sometimes it's colder.

And the conclusion is -- We need to deindustrialize, raise taxes, kill off the useless eaters, and live in caves eating berries.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

He’s obviously preachin’ to da choir. ‘Cause skeptics are simply going to laugh at him.

[AU72]

So don’t assume just because the climate is cooling, that it’s not warming.

[gov_bean_ counter]

CANBERRA, Australia -- Recent short-term cooling of global temperatures shouldn't be misinterpreted as meaning an end to global warming, an Australian expert says.
Barrie Wanker-Hunt

Of course not Mr. Wanker...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cool it, Wanker...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Recent short-term cooling of global temperatures shouldn't be misinterpreted as meaning an end to global warming, an Australian expert says.

Short-term warming of global temperatures is always taken as evidence of global warming, but short-term cooling is not evidence to the contrary.

[mountainlion]

With the extremes of ice ages and topical weather in the past scientists make themselves out to be fools.

[Marty62]

New age Snake Oil Salesman.

[Pharmboy]

Someone should tell this guy that facts are stubborn things. Here's a reminder from the '80s of the brilliance of the media.

[sasquatch]

“Vice President Gore has written, in Earth in the Balance, that journalists should downplay scientific findings of ecological improvement because good news may dilute the public sense of anxiety.”

James Buchal, ‘The Great Salmon Hoax’

[mfish13]

You bunch of idiots, can’t you see the evidence right in front of you?? We say it is Global Warming, and so it is. Remember we were right in 1975 when we said it was Global Cooling.

[hotshu]

I never trust, or respect the words of, anyone with a hyphenated last name. Particularly if it a guy named BarrIE!

[gov_bean_ counter]

As if spelling it with a "y" makes it any better.

Cue the Hope and Change rap song...

[thulldud]

I never trust, or respect the words of, anyone with a hyphenated last name. Particularly if it a guy named BarrIE!

Somebody please confirm that this article isn't a hoax.

[UCANSEE2]

“Expert says climate cooling misinterpreted”

Experts can’t even get their own terminology correct.

CLIMATE is a local ‘definition’, not a global one.

[capt. norm]

I'm guessing that it must be "Grant Renewal Season"

As opposed to "Wabbit Season".

[onedoug]

...expert....

[Circle_Hook]

These F*****G people make me sick!

Up is down, hot is cold, white is black.

Seriously!

[MrB]

Leave [dingle]Barrie alone!
Show Dick some respect!