[Heartwarming]: Residents question science of emissions rule at greenhouse meeting - Farmington Daily Times

FARMINGTON — A public forum intended to outline a proposed state rule requiring increased monitoring of greenhouse gases shifted focus Wednesday night as residents called into question the science behind the new regulations.
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But more than 50 San Juan County residents and business leaders who participated at the Wednesday meeting expressed concern that politics trumped scientific analysis as the new rule was drafted in conjunction with other Western states.

That debate, however, was one Environment Department officials hosting the public forum attempted to avoid, repeatedly requesting participants to focus on the new rule and not on the science of climate change.

"They're saying they're not going to talk about the science, but the science is debatable," said Jeff Peace, of Kirtland. "If you're going to pass a law based on science, you should have the science right."

Participants called into question whether the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide should be regulated as a pollutant...

Alarmist Mark Lynas now discovers natural variability - How climate change is blowing hot and cold

The suggestion that global warming might stop for a few years gained much prominence after a paper (innocently entitled "Advancing Decadal-Scale Climate Prediction in the North Atlantic Sector") was published in the journal Nature last year. The last line of the abstract set the shadowy corners of the blogosphere haunted by climate-change deniers (we call it the "denialosphere" for short) buzzing.
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No one who knows their climate onions ever expected global warming to be a linear trend of year-on-year temperature rises, and the continuing role of natural variability - in particular cycles in the world's oceans, which store vastly more heat than the atmosphere - is a perfectly legitimate area of research. This is actually all rather technical and arcane: it's about how best to tune the models that give us an insight into the globe's likely climate future. But that's fine - and it doesn't falsify global warming: unless, that is, you're a "climate sceptic", desperate to add a tiny scrap of false scientific credibility to your ideological position.

Mark Lynas: Information from Answers.com

Mark Lynas (born 1973) is a British author, journalist and environmental activist who focuses on climate change. He is a contributor to New Statesman, Ecologist, Granta and Geographical magazines, and The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in the UK; he also worked to the film The Age of Stupid, set for release in February 2009. He holds a degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Oxford, England.