From the CBC:
So now the Arctic was “almost going down for the count” and you punched it in the head, or ran it over with your SUV as the case may be. Still, it almost sounds like they aren’t exactly sure why the Arctic has melted so rapidly over the last few years. Meanwhile, its 11 degrees outside and Drudge has posted this story:
It certainly feels cooler. But two things here trouble me. First, I just don’t buy that anyone can say with confidence what the global mean temperature was in 1850. NASA recently revised temperature data for the 1990s. It seems entirely possible, if not likely, that some bright guy will come along and point out that temperature estimates for the 19th century failed to account for some crucial factor (laudanum drinking meteorologists?) . Also, who cares what the 1961-1990 average was? Of those three decades, one–the 1970s–was so freakishly cold that it prompted widespread fears of a new ice age. It stands to reason that the average of the three would be pretty cold. And finally, one other bit of climate change news. Reuters reports:
Who’s fault is that?
