Study Funded By National Science Foundation Concludes: Global Warming Rate Less Than Feared by Publius
Chillin' at the ice hotel
As serious scientists pull back from the alarmist predictions of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and from the extreme policy pronouncements of left-wing lobby groups, the complex reality of climate is starting to emerge.
AFP reports today, Global warming rate less than feared: study:
High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have less of an impact on the rate of global warming than feared, a study said Thursday.
The authors of the study funded by the US National Science Foundation stressed that global warming is real, and that increases in atmospheric CO2, which has doubled from pre-industrial standards, will have multiple serious impacts.
But the more severe estimates, such as those put forth by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are unlikely, the researchers found in their study published in the journal Science
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Schmittner noted that many previous studies only looked at periods spanning from 1850 to today, thus not taking into account a fully integrated paleoclimate date on a global scale.
Critics of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) have long argued that climate change alarmists have ignored inconvenient data. That is starting to changeand so are the predictions.
We now await Al Gores pronouncement that Science is a disreputable publication, AFP a corrupt wire service, and the National Science Foundation a haven of Holocaust denial.