Posted on 06/24/2013 5:29:32 PM PDT by neverdem
Following The New York Times admission that for the last decade and a half its been all quiet on the warming front, The New Republic is now the latest full-bore warm-monger to acknowledge that the science has gotten all unsettled:
Even as scientists asserted an incontrovertible consensus on climate change, a funny thing has happened over the last 15 years: Global warming has slowed down. Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century, temperatures have not kept up with computer models that seemed to project steady warming; theyre perilously close to falling beneath even the lowest projections.
Some people are playing the hiatus as good news: Apocalypse perhaps a little later, the Economist put it. But in a political environment where vast swathes of the American right reject even the premise of global warmingand where prominent right-wing pols suggest its an enormous fraudthis inconvenient news could easily lead to still more acrimony over the subject. Especially since scientists themselves arent entirely sure what the evidence means. If scientific models cant project the last 15 years, what does that mean for their projections of the next 100?
Who knows? All we can say for certain is that no one can say for certain and a humble circumspection might be appropriate from those whove got the entire century to date all wrong...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
It's hot here in Indian Trail, NC today. Weatherbug says it's 88 deg. F. I need more beer to be able to cope.
When they flipped from the fear of global cooling, to the fear of global warming...I started to have doubts. You can’t flip....on absolute science. So after a while, they flipped to climate change, at that point I lost confidence. If science is absolute, then you need to stand still and defend your one cause.
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