
Dr. Tsonis: "In climate, when this happens, the climate state changes. You go from a cooling regime to a warming regime or a warming regime to a cooling regime. This way we were able to explain all the fluctuations in the global temperature trend in the past century. The research team has found the warming trend of the past 30 years has stopped and in fact global temperatures have leveled off since 2001."
But what about Al Gore's frantic claims that humans are responsible for burning up the planet and Barack Obama's plans to use man-made global warming hype as leverage to get his socialist political package accepted? Again; sorry, guys but the evidence just isn't on your side.
Dr. Tsonis: "But if we don't understand what is natural, I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing. So our interest is to understand -- first the natural variability of climate -- and then take it from there. So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural."
Of course, don't expect to see this story travel too far. Like our Democrat leaders are saying, "Why waste a good crisis?" So, even if hard science knocks man-made global warming into a cocked hat (as it has), the leftist political powers that be and their allies in the mainstream media will continue to ignore altogether such stories as this one (I found it via a local Milwaukee TV station) and instead report yet more of the same scare tactics.