{"id":409943,"date":"2010-03-09T12:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5321"},"modified":"2010-03-09T12:36:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:36:42","slug":"the-only-thing-heating-up-is-the-debate-by-lorne-gunter-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409943","title":{"rendered":"The only thing heating up is the debate by Lorne Gunter, National Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you are driving a car (say an unrepaired Toyota) and it suddenly surges up to very high speeds, then runs out of gas, it may be true that the first 100 metres after the tank goes dry are the fastest 100 metres the car has ever travelled. It does not follow, though, that the car is still accelerating dangerously. Or at all.<\/p>\n

In their attempt to repair the recent damage to their climate-change cause, environmentalists \u2014 such as former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, whose defence of the climate-change theory appears opposite \u2014 have begun pointing out that the last decade was \u201cthe hottest decade since modern records have been kept.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is important,\u201d Mr. Gore writes<\/a>, is not the errors and manipulations recently uncovered in the work of the UN and leading climate scientist, but rather \u201cthat the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n

To both claims, I say, \u201cSo what?\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 1998, we haven\u2019t seen things heating up. One of the four main sources of worldwide temperatures (NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies) claims 2005 was hotter \u2014 slightly \u2014 than 1998. But the point is, the trend over the last 12 years been roughly flat. The earth is not getting warmer, at least not significantly. Global warming has paused.<\/p>\n

So think of the climate like our runaway car. Temperatures rose rapidly from 1979. Yet after 1998, the climb seems to have run out of gas. It\u2019s been warm since, but it is no longer getting warmer rapidly, if at all.
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\nSource: network.nationalpost.com<\/p>\n

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