Midnightrider wrote on 04/01/13 at 18:32:39:The Economist has been fairly consistent in its stand that carbon dioxide emissions from man-made sources are the chief cause of global warming. But in an editorial this week, it sounds less certain.
Global warming predictions haven’t panned out as predicted in the past decade, but the why is a bit fuzzy, the magazine admits.
Greenhouse gas emissions have soared during the past 15 years, the magazine notes, with 100 billion tons of carbon having been added to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. Still, both air and ground temperatures during that time have remained virtually unchanged.
Everything from how many meteors hit the earth to how many solar flares to how much rain and where to how much algae to a 1000 things make a difference.
We cant measure it over 10 years ... but here is another possibility ... we are dumping something else possibly that is countering it ... or we are trapping more of the methane (worse than co2 by almost 10 X) cos we can burn it.
I am still not sure global warming is real, not sure if it is even all bad if it was real, but the last 10 years isn't a good measuring period, nor does this hideously cold winter we have had in NC, especially compared to last year.
Cool.
Srinath.