[Originally published Friday, June 23, 2006, at https://reasonality.blogspot.com/]
An influential and controversial paper asserting that recent warming in the Northern Hemisphere was probably unrivaled for 1,000 years was endorsed Thursday, with a few reservations, by a panel convened by the nation’s pre-eminent scientific body…. It has been repeatedly attacked by Republican lawmakers and some industry-financed groups as built on cherry-picked data meant to create an alarming view of recent warming and play down past natural warm periods.At a news conference at the headquarters of the National Academies, several members of the panel reviewing the study said they saw no sign that its authors had intentionally chosen data sets or methods to get a desired result.… In the report, the panel emphasized that the significant remaining uncertainties about climate patterns over the last 2,000 years did not weaken the scientific case that the current warming trend was caused mainly by people, through the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Andrew C. Revkin, Panel Supports a Controversial Report on Global Warming, NY Times, June 23, 2006
I grew up in the heyday of folk music, including Peter, Paul and Mary. So I know the song about war Where have all the flowers gone? which includes the line “Oh, when will they ever learn?” The same could be applied to critics of global warming theories. It’s been clear for years that Read the rest of this entry »
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