Minnesota State Senator Tom Neuville

2007 has turned out to be a pretty cold year. It seems whenever we have a “hot day” someone claims that is proof of global warming. So why isn’t cold or frigid temperatures evidence that global warming is not at a “tipping point” ?

Here is an interesting article from the Washington Times entitled, “Year of Global Cooling” which provides some evidence that earth may be getting colder on a global basis. As usual, I invite comment. But, the author clearly has his own belief in the soundness of global warming theory. The final sentance of the article is:

“Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.”
 

Here is a critical, but well documented and footnoted article which looks into the workings of the IPCC.
The Article is entitled: ” Politics Posing as Science: A Preliminary Assessment
of the IPCC’s Latest Climate Change Report “.
The article includes this sentence, “The people of the world should not let themselves be steamrolled by a report that reflects the IPCC’s interest in promoting climate change fears, rather than in conveying the weight of the scientific evidence.”
It’s an interesting read and I invite comments.

I also read another interesting article in the Christian Science Monitor entitled, ” Let Policy follow Science: Tie a Carbon Tax to Actual Warming. ” The article is Linked here. The article makes a case for “dynamic” global warming strategy, which allows change in policies based upon new scientific observations in the future. Many scientists believe that sunspot activity, or the lack thereof, has more impact on global temperature, than carbon emissions. Better evidence of the effect of sunspots will be known by 2010, when the model projects the beginning of global cooling.

Here is a good article from the Wall Street Journal today. The article discusses the “cascade effect” of global warming “consensus”.  The study of “cascade effect” was also the subject of a Nobel Prize in 2002 to Daniel Kahneman.  “Availability cascade” has been coined for the way a proposition can become irresistible simply by the media repeating it; “informational cascade” for the tendency to replace our beliefs with the crowd’s beliefs; and “reputational cascade” for the rational incentive to do so.

It’s an interesting article and I invite comments.