Bad Climate For Global Warming - Joshua Green - Politics - The Atlantic
...rarely has a first-order concern like the nation's climate and energy policy actually regressed -- and so dramatically as we've seen since the last presidential election.The Canadian Press: Cold weather, snow hinders travel during Lunar New Year holiday season in China
BEIJING, China — Snow and icy roads are causing travel woes in southern and eastern China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, which unleashes the world's biggest annual human migration.Melting ice sparks global warming debate, but who’s right? - Tainted Green
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In previous years, snowstorms have stranded millions of workers and students across the country trying to make it home. For many Chinese, it's the only visit home during the year.
First, 30 years is not a sufficient amount of time to gauge global climate change. Even Karen Shell, a professor from Oregon State who participated in the study, admitted, “[it] isn’t a long enough time period to attribute this entirely to ‘forcing,’ or anthropogenic influence.”
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A study that only last 30 years creates an array of variables that simply do not take into account the cyclical trends of the earth.
Second, as already proven in many global warming studies, models are often times overly sensitive and need to be taken with a grain of salt.
Certainly, changes are happening and a study like this that showcases a developing trend is something to watch, but it may be a while before there is much validity to its global warming data.
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