Consensus trouble
Tim Blair reports on scientific data that doesn’t fit the global climate warming change consensus.
First, oceans are not cooperating:
A major ocean-circulation pattern that plays a crucial role in global warming might not have been slowing down over the past few decades as scientists believed, according to a study released this week.
In a single year of measurements, scientists found enough normal variation in the pattern’s flow to suggest that previous studies were premature in asserting a long-term trend.
Second, climate itself is not playing ball:
New research from Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National Lab concludes that the Earth’s climate is only about one-third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as the IPCC assumes.
This means the Live Earth concert was only a third as destructive to the environment as previously thought, paving the way for more awareness raising! On the other hand, if this keeps up there will be no way to convince people to pose naked on glaciers. Assuming, of course, they need a reason.