On Tuesday, the BBC’s radio news breathlessly told us that the need for a
global climate treaty is now more urgent than ever, because new figures from
the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) show that CO2 levels last year
raced up faster than at any time since 1984. Apart from the fact that this
is blatantly untrue – according to the figures from the Mauna Loa
observatory in Hawaii, no fewer than nine years since 1984 have shown larger
increases – there was no mention of the fact that the trend in global
temperatures has now shown no rise for 18 years, making a mockery of all
those computer model projections relied on by the UN’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, that dubious body co-sponsored by the WMO itself.
At least a fuller report on the BBC website did admit that surface
temperatures haven’t been rising, but it hastily explained that this is
only because all of that additional heat has somehow been hiding away in the
oceans (a claim recently ridiculed as make-believe by one of the world’s
leading oceanographers, Professor Carl Wunsch)."
No comments:
Post a Comment