We are facing an economic crisis that is within our capacity to solve, and an ecological crisis that we lack the political means to prevent. It’s only by failing at the former that we might have a chance at surviving the latter.
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"Carbon Is Building Up in Atmosphere Faster Than Predicted"
And yet, the trend from 2000 until the end of 2008 was actually slight global cooling: http://masterresource.org/?p=1065
Maybe our models aren't very good?
Wes - 19th March 2009 22:53 - #
Wes, the models have been very good. Between 1961 and 2007 (the numbers I have handy), the 10 warmest years worldwide have occurred since 1995. Every year from 2001-2007 was in the top 10. The current La Nina event has depressed temperatures temporarily (La Ninas almost always do), but not the overall direction. When the La Nina ends, the temperature trendline will reassert itself with a vengeance.
Maciej might be correct, but I rather hope that it doesn't take a worldwide economic crisis to solve the Global Warming problem.
PS Simon: your comment system gave a "'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 196: ordinal not in range(128)" warning ... it was complaining that I had properly spelled La Nina (sic).
huxley - 22nd March 2009 20:00 - #