Global Cooling is Rejected

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"... the Union of Concerned Scientists, which said the book mischaracterizes climate science with "distorted statistics."
We all know ALGORE and the "Union of Concerned Scientists" would never distort statistics to support their agenda - nope....No way.
More than 40% of surface temp reporting stations, that were once in open space, are now surrounded by heat holding/generating asphalt, concrete, buildings, automobiles, factories, homes, furnaces and airports - literally millions of individual sources of heat. Would that skew the numbers? Nah, of course not.
Well, just to be sure, perhaps we should rely on satellite data - which supports a cooling trend? The Climate Change Hysterians scream, "No fair!"
Gee, maybe in the giddiness of their doomsday prophesying perhaps they poured a little too much loose sand into the foundation of the theory they have built their reputations and lives around. Ya think they may want to protect the fantasy at all costs? Just Maybe?
Finally, there are all those eco-driven "save the planet" grants that would stop flowing into liberal think-tanks and universities if the Earth wasn't in a constant state of peril.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 7:21PM October 28, 2009

I am not sure what the point of this story was. If it is was to throw doubt on those who say that man is not causing global warming, then it does not serve that purpose becasue the pertinent question is not whether or not the earth has warmed or cooled over the last ten years. It is whether CO2 emissions by generated by mankind has had anything to do with the apparent warming of the earth that had occured since man started to measure the temperature of the earth on a global scale in the 1880's. The warming began before man started to put any appreciable CO2 into the atmosphere. And from the 1940's through the 1970's the earth cooled even though CO2 was increasing. The rise in temperature since the 1880's does statistically correlates very poorly the increase in CO2 content in the atmosphere. All of the talk about the earth warming is based upon the highly suspect assumption that we can accurately measure an average global temperature over a long period of time.

Bob Longstreet of IN 3:55PM October 27, 2009