Global Warming Mulligan #1

In this crazy, mixed up, topsy-turvy world--where anything can cause everything, or even nothing at all--it makes perfect sense that a cooling trend can be interpreted as further evidence that man is causing global warming.

Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming, Researchers Say

April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period. `

`Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend over the next 10-year period,'' Wood said in an interview. ``Without knowing that, you might erroneously think there's no global warming going on.''

Germany's universities have been going downhill since they quit charging tuition; arguably longer. I assume that the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences is staffed by many graduates of German universities. But honestly, is "don't believe your lyin' eyes" the best they can offer the world?

``Natural variations over the next 10 years might be heading in the cold direction,'' Wood said. ``If you run the model long enough, eventually global warming will win.''

Yes, Dr. Wood, and if you ran your model even longer, I bet global cooling would win. Variations in global temperature is the nature of, er, global temperature variation afterall. By the way, what does global warming win?

Here's my favorite part:

``We thought a lot about the way to present this because we don't want it to be turned around in the wrong way,'' Keenlyside said. ``I hope it doesn't become a message of Exxon Mobil and other skeptics.''

Cause, like, only shills for BIG OIL don't believe in global warming.




This is a picture of Palm Jumeirah, which is a man-made luxury island just off the coast of Dubai. It has more than doubled the waterfront area of Dubai and created luxury homes for thousands of people. I was reading an industry report today from a well-known investment bank and it stated that there is estimated to be $1.5 trillion invested in Dubai and the greater surrounding area over the next 5 years. Dubai, is at sea-level. I wonder how serious those who are going to invest $1.5 trillion at sea-level consider the imminent threat of rising tides due to anthropogenic global warming?

I hope Al Gore is translating "An Inconvenient Truth" into Arabic. Who else can save them from themselves?