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Global average temperature did not change significantly in the years 1998-2005, according to data recorded by the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. That’s eight years during which the world kept on pumping out carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but there was no measurable effect on global temperature. Says Prof Bob Carter, a geologist at James Cook Universiry, Queensland, and an expert in paleoclimate research:
In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say "how silly to judge climate change over such a short period". Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate.
Most of Prof Carter’s column is devoted to debunking global-warming myths and trouncing alarmist myth-spreaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury.
And goodly Archbishop Rowan Williams, who self-evidently understands little about the science, has warned of "millions, billions" of deaths as a result of global warming and threatened Mr Blair with the wrath of the climate God unless he acts. By betraying the public's trust in their positions of influence, so do the great and good become the small and silly.
Prof Carter also mentions that the infamous hockey-stick chart allegedly showing increasing global temperature was discredited by Canadian statistician Stephen MacIntyre. Hurrah for statisticians!
And hurrah for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, say sixty leading climate scientists, for deciding to review the pro-Kyoto stance of the former Liberal government.
In an open letter that includes five British scientists among the signatories, the experts praise his recent commitment to review the controversial Kyoto protocol on reducing emissions harmful to the environment.
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They emphasised that the study of global climate change is, in Mr Harper's own words, an "emerging science" and added: "If, back in the mid 1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary."
It is increasingly obvious that scientists have not reached a consensus on whether global warming is even happening, much less what’s causing it or what should be done about it.
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