Saturday, January 22, 2011

Signs Of Strengthening Global Cooling
Climatic cyclic history repeats itself, even if you ignore it.

And it does so because it is so powerful that it neither allows itself to be suppressed nor appeased. Guest writer Matti Vooro presents here his latest work on why the future is looking cooler. This is also the view of a growing number of scientists. Expect cooling over the next 30 years.
A disastrous truth | Climate Etc.
I wholeheartedly agree EXCEPT FOR THE CLAUSE ABOUT “BETTER IGNORE THE SKEPTICS”, and expressed this sentiment in my post “Pakistan on my mind.” The rationale for tying individual (or collective) extreme events to global warming was reinforced by Hurricane Katrina, which became a focusing event for global warming when for the first time the public seemed to understand that a 1 or 2 degree increase in sea surface temperature could be associated with more intense hurricanes (I posted an overview on the hurricane/global warming issue here). The rationale then becomes to use each new disaster as a “teachable opportunity” to build support support for climate change science and policies. The strategy is no longer working, and worse, it is based on the premise that we can actually attribute individual extreme events to global warming (see my previous post on this).

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