Sixteen notable scientists have signed a powerful op/ed in today’s Wall Street Journal illustrating how and why climate research devolved into an unwarranted global warming hysteria. First, they point out that the most recent data rebuts the hysteria meme. From “No Need to Panic About Global Warming:”
Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now…The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2.
