Sunday, September 11, 2011

Neglected truths of climate change

When contentious issues become long standing and widely discussed their public debate tends to become fixated on particular understandings of certain issues.

Ancillary matters that should be of obvious importance often seem to be strangely ignored. The public debate over climate change is rife with such neglected considerations. Here is a selection of a few of the more obvious ones.

Unprecedented Warming

Climate alarmists claim that the global climate has warmed by about 0.7°C over the past century and that this is entirely due to the greenhouse effect of fossil fuel emissions. Even if one ignores the sundry uncertainties involved in the amount and cause of any such warming and accepts the entire fraction of a degree as real and due solely to the use of fossil fuels, why should this be so alarming? 0.7° is only a small fraction of the warming which occurs daily between night and day or winter and summer or from one day to the next.

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