Dennis Avery: The “Near-Virtual Reality” of Man-Made Global Warming

“As Barack Obama shifts from a waking dream to the real world, he faces the near-virtual reality of climate change. He has to move decisively.” (Ian McEwan, “A New Dawn,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 8/9.)

What is near-virtual reality? I’m fascinated that McEwan starts his sermon upholding his belief in man-made global warming by quoting George Berkeley, the 18th-century Irish philosopher. Berkeley contended that the physical world does not exist; that it’s a “virtual” product of our minds.

That’s pretty much the case with man-made global warming.

Temperatures are lower today than in 1940. Over the past two years, global temperatures recorded by Britain’s Hadley Centre and the U.S. satellites have dropped sharply, by about 0.6 degree C.
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Falling thermometers underline the importance of understanding the 1,500-year solar-linked climate cycle, revealed since 1984 in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies of oxygen isotopes (in ice cores and cave stalagmites), seabed microfossils, fossil pollen, and carbon 14 all over world.

Sunspots had predicted the recent temperature drop since 2000, and sunspots have a 79 percent correlation with our past thermometer record (with a ten year lag). The correlation between our temperatures and CO2 is a dismissive 22 percent and falling as we speak.

Before we dismantle the most productive economy in history, maybe the new Obama administration should at least examine the long, proven relationship between the sun’s activity and our climate.

[Via CO2 Sceptics]