New Sunday Times Report Smacks Down Global Warming Theory, Again
 Al "Pinocchio" Gore |
LONDON - February 17, 2010: This past Sunday, February 14th, the London Sunday Times published a new article challenging the veracity of man-made global warming.
The story, written by Jonathan Leake, states:
"...new research,
including work by British scientists, is casting doubt on such claims. Some
even suggest the world may not be warming much at all.
“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of
global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science
at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the
IPCC.
The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the
thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to
collect temperature data over the past 150 years.
These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors
such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved
from site to site.
Christy has published research papers looking at these effects in three
different regions: east Africa, and the American states of California and
Alabama.
“The story is the same for each one,” he said. “The
popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise
was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such
as land development.”
The IPCC faces similar criticisms from Ross McKitrick, professor of
economics at the University of Guelph, Canada, who was invited by the panel
to review its last report.
The experience turned him into a strong critic and he has since
published a research paper questioning its methods.
“We concluded, with overwhelming statistical significance, that
the IPCC’s climate data are contaminated with surface effects from
industrialisation and data quality problems. These add up to a large
warming bias,” he said.
The complete Times story can be found at
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece.