Tuesday, January 27, 2009

global warming skepticism grows (in scientific community)

One can infer that this is going on from the subtle change in language-- over the last year or so-- from "global warming" to "climate change".

But it's also more directly observable in scientific opinion changing on the matter.

Here's World...

Global warming has stopped. Carbon dioxide emissions have not decreased. And climatologists the world over are taking notice. A 231-page report that documents skepticism of climate change alarmism dropped this month citing the views of some 650 prominent international scientists. The document, an update from a 2007 U.S. Senate Minority Report that cited 400 dissenters, directly challenges the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN body warning of calamitous climate outcomes if greenhouse-gas emissions are not substantially reduced.

Among this new batch of dissenters are some former members of the IPCC, who have since come to disagree with the view that global warming is man-made....

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