Global Cooling for a while
March 22, 2008
Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs was asked by Michael Duffy, ”Is the Earth stillwarming?”She replied:
“No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.”
Duffy: “Is this a matter of any controversy?”
Marohasy:
”Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued … This is not what you’d expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you’d expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up … So (it’s) very unexpected, not something that’s being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it’s very significant.”
Meanwhile, guys with money that want to feel like they care and are smart about things they nothing about jet in on carbon polluting jets to a distant island. Hey Sergey, Branson and Tony Blair! Have you heard about teleconferencing?
The event dramatically void of any scientists was a cornucopia of todays business and internet all star team. Making one wonder if this was not a stop global warming fest, and more of a how can we profit from the hype fest?
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