For all you global warming or climate change enthusiasts
Here is a report from NewsMax
"No Global Warming in 18 Years
On September 21, an estimated 300,000-plus demonstrators turned out for the
People's Climate March in New York City
to call for international action against climate change.
Two days later, President Obama addressed the United Nations General
Assembly and called on all countries to cut carbon emissions "right
now."
And eight days after that, October 1, will mark 18
consecutive years without global warming.
There has been "no significant warming trend in surface average
temperature" in those 18 years, said Patrick Michaels, director of the
Cato Institute's Center for the Study of Science.
Al Gore and other climate change alarmists will have to concede that their
predictions of catastrophic global warming were off by a long shot, Michaels,
who has a doctorate in ecological climatology, told CNS
News.
"It has to be admitted eventually that too much warming was forecast
too fast," he said. "This just has to happen. You can't go on and on
and on.
"If the surface temperature resumed the warming rate that we observed
from, say 1977 through 1998, we would still go close to a quarter of a century
without significant net warming because there's such a long flat period built
into the record now."
Michaels pointed to findings by the University
of Illinois' Polar
Ice Research Center
that Antarctic ice "is at its highest extent measured by the current
microwave satellite sounding system" since 1978.
"And if you take a close look at the Arctic data, it appears the
decline [in polar ice] stopped around 2005/2006, which means we've almost had
10 years without any net loss in Arctic ice."
Michaels spent three decades as a research professor of environmental
sciences at the University of Virginia
and was a contributing editor to the United Nations' second Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change report.
He noted that in a survey earlier this year, global warming ranked No. 19
out of 20 issues that Americans consider top priorities — and contrasted that
with Secretary of State John Kerry's recent proclamation that climate change is
"the biggest challenge of all that we face right now."
Michaels told CNS: "I would say that
his order of needs is a little bit out of whack.""
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