As you put on you heavy winter coat, your warm boots, thick gloves and ready to venture outside for your daily routine. You may think this not unusual for December/January weather, only problem is you are in Florida. With record, and near record temperature lows around the world, we now advised by the proponents of Man caused Climate Change (aka. Global Warming) to ignore the apparent data.
The question that now comes to mind is "Why now is the data unreliable?" As supporters to manmade global warming scrabble to explain this cooling trend we are offered one guess after another, and conflicting arguments on what is causing the dramatic cooling trend. Without any concrete facts or unifying theory the one thing these proponents do agree on is that any data that does not support their position is inconsequential.
Professor Mojib Latif, one the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lead researchers, has recently stated that the earth may be in for a 30 year "mini ice age", but as soon as it is done, global temperatures will rise as per their model. He has down played this cooling trend as a "pause" and that catastrophic warming will continue afterwords. With all due respect to Professor Latif, but is he mad? An Ice Age, no matter how small, is a way less desirable circumstance then global temperatures rising 1 to 3 degrees Celsius. What an Ice Age could mean is diminished food production, greater energy needs, and reduced access to fresh water supplies. If Professor Latif is right, he should be encourage the nations of the world to prepare and innovate to combat the human disasters the would accompany global cooling, instead he presents it as a short vacation from global warming.
If you don't like Professor Latif explanation, fear not, here comes the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSICD) with Senior Research Scientist Mark Serreze. Serreze argues that the decline in global temperatures is yet another effect of global warming. "We are indeed starting to see the effects of the rise in greenhouse gases," he said. Although Serreze agrees that the cooling is unusual, he discounts it by stating "This is just the roll of the dice, the natural variability inherent to the system."
With all the scandals, conflicting theories, and of course political agendas, what are we to believe? The truth is that the study of the atmosphere is a worthy one, but it is a lot more complicated and dynamic then what has been present to us. Warming, cooling, weather patterns have more variables then can be explained by the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Proximity to the Sun and Jupiter, atmospheric density, amount of solar activity all play roles in our temperature and weather. The important thing is to not stop asking questions. Scientific fact is not decided by consensus, but instead by exploring doubt. For those whom wish to learn more about the science of climate change, Steven Milloy has a great website explaining this study at http://junkscience.com.
The question that now comes to mind is "Why now is the data unreliable?" As supporters to manmade global warming scrabble to explain this cooling trend we are offered one guess after another, and conflicting arguments on what is causing the dramatic cooling trend. Without any concrete facts or unifying theory the one thing these proponents do agree on is that any data that does not support their position is inconsequential.
Professor Mojib Latif, one the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lead researchers, has recently stated that the earth may be in for a 30 year "mini ice age", but as soon as it is done, global temperatures will rise as per their model. He has down played this cooling trend as a "pause" and that catastrophic warming will continue afterwords. With all due respect to Professor Latif, but is he mad? An Ice Age, no matter how small, is a way less desirable circumstance then global temperatures rising 1 to 3 degrees Celsius. What an Ice Age could mean is diminished food production, greater energy needs, and reduced access to fresh water supplies. If Professor Latif is right, he should be encourage the nations of the world to prepare and innovate to combat the human disasters the would accompany global cooling, instead he presents it as a short vacation from global warming.
If you don't like Professor Latif explanation, fear not, here comes the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSICD) with Senior Research Scientist Mark Serreze. Serreze argues that the decline in global temperatures is yet another effect of global warming. "We are indeed starting to see the effects of the rise in greenhouse gases," he said. Although Serreze agrees that the cooling is unusual, he discounts it by stating "This is just the roll of the dice, the natural variability inherent to the system."
With all the scandals, conflicting theories, and of course political agendas, what are we to believe? The truth is that the study of the atmosphere is a worthy one, but it is a lot more complicated and dynamic then what has been present to us. Warming, cooling, weather patterns have more variables then can be explained by the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Proximity to the Sun and Jupiter, atmospheric density, amount of solar activity all play roles in our temperature and weather. The important thing is to not stop asking questions. Scientific fact is not decided by consensus, but instead by exploring doubt. For those whom wish to learn more about the science of climate change, Steven Milloy has a great website explaining this study at http://junkscience.com.
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