Posted by Kromey at 11:39am Jan 14 '09A new study is out that proves that the earth's magnetic field has an affect on global climate, a theory first proposed a decade ago and outright rejected by the CO2 camp.
The authors, contrary to the "mainstream" scientists who rejected the magnetic field theory, don't reject that CO2 plays a role; rather, they acknowledge that both are factors in global climate change.
I think it's important that we recall the original global warming alarmist, James Hansen, who first announced in 1988 that global temperatures would rise 0.35 degrees C over the next 10 years.
10 years later he was proven to be wrong by more than 300%! His response? "The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change," he said during a speech to the National Academy of Sciences in October of 1998. He later went on to say, "In climate research and modelling [sic], we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible."
And for those who still want to argue that we're warmer now than we've ever been before, consider this summary by George Monbiot in 2007:
The authors, contrary to the "mainstream" scientists who rejected the magnetic field theory, don't reject that CO2 plays a role; rather, they acknowledge that both are factors in global climate change.
The two scientists acknowledged that CO2 plays an important role in the changing climate, "but the climate is an incredibly complex system, and it is unlikely we have a full overview over which factors play a part and how important each is in a given circumstance," [Peter] Riisager told Videnskab.
I think it's important that we recall the original global warming alarmist, James Hansen, who first announced in 1988 that global temperatures would rise 0.35 degrees C over the next 10 years.
10 years later he was proven to be wrong by more than 300%! His response? "The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change," he said during a speech to the National Academy of Sciences in October of 1998. He later went on to say, "In climate research and modelling [sic], we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible."
And for those who still want to argue that we're warmer now than we've ever been before, consider this summary by George Monbiot in 2007:
The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by as much as 59cm this century. Hansen's paper argues that the slow melting of ice sheets the panel expects doesn't fit the data. The geological record suggests that ice at the poles does not melt in a gradual and linear fashion, but flips suddenly from one state to another. When temperatures increased to 2-3 degrees above today's level 3.5 million years ago, sea levels rose not by 59 centimetres but by 25 metres. The ice responded immediately to changes in temperature. [Emphasis mine]