George Will offers this valuable observation about the certainty of global warming data in his latest Newsweek column:
There is much debate about the reasons for, and the importance of, the fact that global warming has not increased for that long [11 years]. What we know is that computer models did not predict this. Which matters, a lot, because we are incessantly exhorted to wager trillions of dollars and diminished freedom on the proposition that computer models are correctly projecting catastrophic global warming. On Nov. 2, The Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Ball reported some inconvenient data. Soon after the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?it shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Thinking Man’s Thinking Man?reported that global warming is “unequivocal,” there came evidence that the planet’s temperature is beginning to cool. “That,” Ball writes, “has led to one point of agreement: The models are imperfect.”
