alt.energy.renewable

00ZNB wrote:
> 4 Apr 2008
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> http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=292204249288396
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> The United Nations World Meteorological Organization is reporting that
> global temperatures have not risen since 1998. That would be the same
> temperatures that models from the U.N.'s Inter-Governmental Panel on
> Climate Change said would be scorching the earth into an unlivable
> wasteland - except for those coastal areas flooded by seas gorged with
> water from melting ice sheets.
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> Of course the IPCC spins the news.
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> "You should look at trends over a pretty long period," said WMO
> Secretary-General Michel Jarraud, "and the trend of temperature
> globally is still very much indicative of warming."
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> His explanation for the cool spell is the effect of the Pacific
> Ocean's La Nina current, "part of what we call 'variability.' "
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> If that's the case, then why can't the Pacific's El Nino current,
> which played a large part in the warm reading for 1998, simply been
> seen as a "variability" and not part of a greater warming trend?

"Be seen", surely. Some high grade 'editorial' action there!

And it has.

The usual assortment of denialist lies, from yet another right wing
opinion piece. lol