Will Cooler Heads Prevail?

More on the Junk Science of "Man-Made Global Warming"

From IBD:

Climate Change: As experts predict a milder hurricane season unrelated to global warming, 60 top scientists tell Canada's new leader that the Kyoto treaty is pointless. And where's that ice age we were promised?

A study by William Gray and Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University forecasts that this hurricane season, which begins June 1, will produce a total of 17 tropical storms, nine of them becoming full-blown hurricanes and five of those reaching Category 3 or above. This is well short of last season's 26 storms, 14 hurricanes and seven Category 3s or above.

According to evidence we have reported before, hurricanes follow a historically cyclical pattern in both frequency and intensity, and Gray and Klotzbach confirm this.

"It is statistically unlikely," they conclude, "that the upcoming 2006 and 2007 hurricane seasons that follow will have the number of major hurricane U.S. landfalls as we have seen in 2004-2005."

As for the relationship between global warming and hurricane activity, the study says: "No credible observational evidence is available or likely will be available in the next few decades which will directly associate global surface temperature change to changes in global frequency and intensity."

Meanwhile, some 60 leading scientists have written an open letter asking new Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to keep his pledge to review Canada's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty on greenhouse gases that 84 countries have signed. "Global climate changes all the time due to natural causes, and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural 'noise,' " the letter asserts.

It also says: "If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary." Activists, it adds, try "to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified."

In fact, how the media assess climate change depends on which decade we're in. The April 28, 1975, issue of Newsweek, for example, had as its science story, "The Cooling World." Meteorologists were "almost unanimous," it said, that catastrophic famines would result from — gasp! — global cooling. Global cooling?

The article said we were about "a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average" and cited not melting glaciers, but "a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72."

On Sept. 14, 1975, The New York Times opined that global cooling "may mark the return to another ice age," that "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" and that it was "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950." Huh?

The earth warms. The earth cools. Al Gore and his media friends should just chill.