Dec 28 2008
“2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved”
It will be interesting to see how people respond to the Times of London column by Christopher Booker, who writes:
Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.
The practical effect, for Booker, is something Americans may need to take more seriously:
As 2009 dawns, it is time we in Britain faced up to the genuine crisis now fast approaching from the fact that – unless we get on very soon with building enough proper power stations to fill our looming “energy gap” – within a few years our lights will go out and what remains of our economy will judder to a halt. After years of infantile displacement activity, it is high time our politicians – along with those of the EU and President Obama’s US – were brought back with a mighty jolt into contact with the real world.
It’s still the case that annual temperatures in the continental U.S. are up. Of course, climate, like everything else, fluctuates. The trend is what matters.
I have a friend who has 2 brother in laws who work in Alaska as climatologists. They said they had no summer this year. I haven’t checked but according to him they said it didn’t get above 60* all year.