Peope don't seem to understand that I am a global-warming skeptic, not a denier. I have friends whose knowledge, ability, and integrity I repect on both sides of the questions associated with global warming. And I have friends whose knowledge, ability, and/or integrity I do not respect on both sides of those questions.
Because so many people were yelling at me, haranguing me, that global warming is "settled science" 6 years ago, I hope you can understand my skepticism in light of the failures of so many computer models about climate change.
And when I see articles like this one, I'm not sure what it all means, but it certainly increases my doubts.
A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.
The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.
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Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century – a process that would expose computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming as dangerously misleading.
The disclosure comes 11 months after The Mail on Sunday triggered intense political and scientific debate by revealing that global warming has ‘paused’ since the beginning of 1997 – an event that the computer models used by climate experts failed to predict.
In March, this newspaper further revealed that temperatures are about to drop below the level that the models forecast with ‘90 per cent certainty’.
The pause – which has now been accepted as real by every major climate research centre – is important, because the models’ predictions of ever-increasing global temperatures have made many of the world’s economies divert billions of pounds into ‘green’ measures to counter climate change.
Those predictions now appear gravely flawed.