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Global Cooling/Warming hysteria: What happened to science?
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I have posted several commentaries over the past few months which dispute both global warming being caused primarily by carbon dioxide (it may have a smaller contribution) as well as any global cooling "ice age" scenario.
Why? Not due to any political ideology I assure you, but because the data does not seem to be consistent with either viewpoint.
For example, frequently touted facts such as shrinking arctic sea ice (true) prove nothing about human caused climate change. It is readily admitted by the NSIDC (www.nsidc.org) that changing weather patterns and ocean currents are the primary drivers behind recent years of summer ice melt. Furthermore, 30 years is a darned short time span in which to draw any conclusion from ice trends, heat waves or ocean temperatures towards either man-made cooling or warming!
On the other hand, the myth that will not die, that most scientists believed the Earth was going into an ice age in the 1970s, is hogwash. The Newsweek article so often shown to support this theory was typical media hyperbole and not consistent with the science even then. So please stop quoting this to debunk AGW. It is ridiculous.
So we owe it to ourselves as a civilization to continue scientific research with as little politics as possible, and the avoidance of cherry-picking data to support what one already wants to believe....IF that's possible!
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