Re: [asa] Climate change not all man-made, NOAA report says

Not an April Fool's story -- maybe one told, however, by an April Fool.

Check out the source -- "The National Post," a paper devoted to the
denialists' claims. Check the citation on the article -- oh -- there
isn't one! Why am I not surprised?

Many of the denialist "newspapers" and web site and institutes are
funded by ExxonMobil and the like. I don't know if this one is -- but
I am pretty sure they have a sponsor.

I seem to remember RealClimate.org commenting on this NOAA report. The
full report, they said, has a much different thrust. What The National
Post has done is to cherry pick.

Burgy

On 4/2/09, Dave Wallace <wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1453831
>
> Interesting but maybe an April Fools story, but I doubt it.
>
>> It's wrong to blame our warming climate on human pollution alone, says
>> a major analysis by U. S. climate scientists who say North America's
>> warming and drying trend also has important natural causes.
>>
>> Natural shifts in ocean currents have caused much of the warming in
>> recent decades, and almost all of the droughts, says the U. S.
>> National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
>>
>> Most climate researchers today deal exclusively with man-made
>> "greenhouse" gases, and often dismiss suggestions of naturally caused
>> warming as unscientific.
>>
>> Yet NOAA says Western Canada has warmed by two degrees and Eastern
>> Canada hasn't warmed at all because flows of air from naturally
>> shifting Pacific currents have affected the West most.
>>
>> The lengthy re-analysis of climate data doesn't dispute that
>> greenhouse gases from fossil fuels cause a warmer climate. But it
>> raises questions about the details: How much warming? How many causes?
>> And why isn't it the same every-where?
>>
>> It also stresses that we don't understand climate as well as we like
>> to think, because scientists only have good data from about 1948 onward.
>>
> Maybe some of the regional variations explain some of Glen's data on
> tree rings, although I have not had time to follow Glen's posts in any
> detail as I have been down with pneumonia.
>
>
> Dave W
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