“Within the lifetimes of most Americans now living, today’s media-manufactured alarm about man-made global warming might be an embarrassing memory. The nation will then be better off because Bush—during whose administration the embarrassing planet warmed not at all—refused to be stampeded toward costly “solutions” to a supposed crisis that might be chimerical, and that, if real, could be adapted for considerably less cost than will be sunk in efforts at prevention.” George Will, Newsweek, 1/17/09
George Will’s claim about recent global temperature trends is similar to others:
- There Is a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998 - Bob Carter in Telegraph, 4/16/06
- Has global warming stopped? by David Whitehouse in New Statesman, 12/19/07.
What’s the situation? Have George Will, Bob Carter and David Whitehouse interpreted the temperature trends correctly? This post looks at the long term global land and sea temperature anomaly trends to evaluate the accuracy of Mr. Will’s statement. (more…)
