Yet the northern hemisphere has been consistently warmer for at least two if not three decades. Not by much, but enough to likely see off the arctic sea ice by 2012. Yes, that still appears very possible as it seems that almost all the multi year ice has now gone. If true, then a fortuitous combination of winds is likely to present dramatic results over the next three years.
What is not convincing is the idea that CO2 and humanity had anything whatsoever to do with it at all. The brief coincidence of the CO2 growth sort of matching the apparent temperature trend has created more logic holes than Swiss cheese and the theory should be discarded out of hand.
We have a trend that fit well with the known climate of the Holocene and our own investigation over the past two years has elucidated every apparent anomaly with a more probable explanation.
We still need to stress test the impact of a major Alaska volcanic eruption on Europe, but in the historic period of slowly improving northern conditions over the past two hundred years, we have had fairly quiet mountains there. Surely that is not a coincidence?
Climate Depot Banned in Louisiana! State official sought to 'shut down' climate skeptic's testimony at hearing
Official irate that Climate Depot's Morano allowed to testify
Commissioner Foster Campbell of the Louisiana Public Service Commission is demanding to know why a witness skeptical of man-made global warming was not "shut down" during a May 13, 2009 hearing in Baton Rouge.
According to an article in The Times-Picayune on May 19, 2009, Campbell was irate that Climate Depot's executive editor Marc Morano was invited to speak at the hearing by Commissioner Eric Skrmetta. The paper reported: "Campbell criticized [Chairman] Boissiere for not shutting down Morano's presentation." [Morano n0te: This is eerily similar to the event that occurred in Congress on April 23, 2009. See: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing ]
Campbell attempted to verbally grill Morano during the hearing and has since publicly accused the Climate Depot editor of being a "phony" and a "hack" who is part of a "fringe group" and he accused Morano of "deception" and taking "quotes out of context." (See Times-Picayune article:
Campbell, who engaged in a testy back and forth during the standing room only hearing with Morano, is now apparently demanding any future witnesses that challenge his scientific understanding of global warming be promptly “shut down.” [Morano note: Campbell's low-brow insults and impulse to cut off debate only serve to diminish his reputation.]
The Times-Picayune reported: “After a presenter at last week's Public Service Commission meeting asserted that global warming is a hoax, Commissioner Foster Campbell said Tuesday he plans to introduce a motion at the June meeting requiring most people testifying before the commission to do so under oath.” [Morano note: The paper is incorrect; I never testified that global warming a “hoax.” ]
Campbell's call for future witnesses to be sworn-in is apparently his attempt to scare off any future skeptics of man-made global warming fears from testifying. Campbell implies "swearing" in witnesses would somehow force witnesses to change their dissenting views of climate change. [Morano note: Sadly, it seems as though Campbell actually believes that if you present scientific evidence refuting Gore's climate view, you must be a liar. I would be delighted to return to Baton Rouge to testify again under oath and allow Campbell all the time he would like to question my presentation. ]
The paper reported that Morano's testimony “upstaged” Campbell's invited witness.
“Marc Morano, a former aide to Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma who now runs an anti-global-warming website called
[ Morano note: A frustrated Campbell sat through my presentation which contained extensive
During the question and answer portion of the testimony, Campbell accused Morano of representing "big business" and not being kind to former Vice President Al Gore. Campbell has been on a public relations war path since Morano's 35 minute testimony at the hearing. Last week, Campbell released a May 14, 2009 letter calling Morano a “political operator from Washington, D.C. and he accused him of giving a “far-right sermon on Global Warming straight out of Rush Limbaugh, complete with obscure references, quotes out of context and personal attacks on a former Vice President and winner of the Nobel Prize.” Campbell called Morano's testimony a “political circus.” He then went on to label him a “hack” who used “deception.”
[Morano note: In addition to providing comic relief, Campbell's angry rants are quite chilling. As the science behind man-made global warming fears
NASA's James Hansen has called for trials of climate skeptics in 2008 for "
In 2006, the eco-magazine Grist called for
A 2008 report found that
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