International Law

Global Warming Has Stopped?

So says this article in The Australian. But if our evil industrialized lifestyle, and carbon emissions, was solely responsible for global warming, and emissions are up—wouldn’t the warming trend have continued past 1998?

The Australian columnist Christopher Pearson reported on an interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs in which it was discussed how new satellite data doesn’t fit the global-warming orthodox opinion. As Pearson notes, “Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril”. Here we go:

Duffy: “The climate is actually, in one way anyway, more robust than was assumed in the climate models?”

Marohasy: “That’s right ... These findings actually aren’t being disputed by the meteorological community. They’re having trouble digesting the findings, they’re acknowledging the findings, they’re acknowledging that the data from NASA’s Aqua satellite is not how the models predict, and I think they’re about to recognise that the models really do need to be overhauled and that when they are overhauled they will probably show greatly reduced future warming projected as a consequence of carbon dioxide.”

Duffy: “From what you’re saying, it sounds like the implications of this could beconsiderable ...”

Marohasy: “That’s right, very much so. The policy implications are enormous. The meteorological community at the moment is really just coming to terms with the output from this NASA Aqua satellite and (climate scientist) Roy Spencer’s interpretation of them. His work is published, his work is accepted, but I think people are still in shock at this point.”

What will become of all the people who make their living telling us about global warming? The Nobel Prize winning liars, the jet-setting NGOs trying to force the rest of us back 500 years, the carbon-trading hustlers, the government regulators, the schoolteachers filling children’s heads with lies—boy, talk about an inconvenient truth!

Full post as published by Korea Law Blog on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).