Climate debate hots up - Scotsman.com News

...This is only a few years and no conclusion could be drawn about temperature trend, but what Mr Baxter ignores is that carbon dioxide, supposedly the major driver of man-made climatic warming, has inexorably and uniformly risen in concentration for every one of these years, with close to zero correlation with temperature. The previous three years 1998-2000 also show no temperature correlation with change, but 1998 was an atypically warm El Niño year.

We are making some of the most expensive global decisions ever, on the basis of what atmospheric physicist James Peden has described as "computerised tinker toys with which one can construct any outcome he chooses".

(DR) JOHN ETHERINGTON

kuratkull.com » PBS Frontline Two Hour Special on Global Warming [Framing Science]

In a two hour special, PBS Frontline tackles what the award winning series calls the most important issue of our time. (Promo above.) The special program airs Tuesday night in most US markets, check your local listings.
“I have reported on the Cold War, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the rise of Al Qaeda, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” says producer Martin Smith. “But nothing matches climate change in scope and severity.”