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July 25, 2009
Glad I didn't buy any carbon offsets
Since there's still some debate about the causes of warming. Anthropogenic or not?
Peer-reviewed study from Down Under points to nature as global warming sourceThis ought to stir things up royally. Three Australasian scientists have published a study in the Journal of Geophysical Research claiming that virtually none of the observed temperature increases in the Earth's atmosphere in recent years can be attributed to man-made factors.
Instead, researchers Chris de Freitas at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, John McLean from Melbourne, Australia, and Bob Carter from James Cook University in North Queensland, Australia, ), point to the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). [...]
The journal abstract of the study summarizes the conclusion thus: "Overall the results suggest that the Southern Oscillation exercises a consistently dominant influence on mean global temperature, with a maximum effect in the tropics, except for periods when equatorial volcanism causes ad hoc cooling."
Posted by joke du jour at July 25, 2009 06:02 PM
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