Sceptics Display an Exquisite Sense of Timing!
Your Green team enjoyed this post from DeSmogBlog which is another example of the continuous ding-dong going on between the believers and non-believers.
Some 94 skeptics published a letter in the National Post declaring that:
“[D]espite computer projections of temperature rises, there has been no net global warming since 1998. That the current temperature plateau follows a late 20th-century period of warming is consistent with the continuation today of natural multi-decadal or millennial climate cycling.”
Most unfortunate timing.
The same day, NOAA declared that:
“The year 2007 is on pace to become one of the 10 warmest years for the contiguous U.S., since national records began in 1895…The year was marked by exceptional drought in the U.S. Southeast and the West, which helped fuel another extremely active wildfire season. The year also brought outbreaks of cold air, and killer heat waves and floods. Meanwhile, the global surface temperature for 2007 is expected to be fifth warmest since records began in 1880.”
But we have to ask ourselves how much energy will the world continue to invest in this squabble, and what will it take to come to an agreement on the way forwards? Will there ever be an answer?
In the next few days we are going to take a closer look at the war between the Red Sceptics and the Green believers - starting with the correct spelling of the word ‘sceptics’. Later in the week we also planning an article on climate change extremism and its impact on critical environmental policy decisions.
We would love you to comment or contact us if you have points of view you would like to share on these subjects.
If you look at 2007 Monthly, you will see an unusally warm spike in January, based on stations data, and a pretty normal rest of the year. But if you use the land-sea index it was nothing special, the US temperature has no relevance to the issue except as part of the total global picture. We also will have an unusally cold December to tack onto the chart. BTW deSmogBlog is a joke, they are professional character assassins who dig for dirt on anyone with a contrary opinion, no matter how far back they have to go and do this even when their own funding source is rather “shady” as well.