This is from Dr. Fred Singer’s newsletter the Week That Was from April 15. Fred is the President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project and was a speaker for a JLF Headliner last summer.
“Global Climate is Cooling, not Warming.
Did you know that the official temperature record of NOAA’s National Climate Data Center shows a global cooling trend over the past seven years in spite of rapid increases in levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases? You might ask: How is this possible? Doesn’t everyone agree that the climate is warming?
The answer is: It all depends on how you define the trend. When you start in 1998, a peak warm year, you will get a cooling trend.
But is this fair? That’s the whole point of this exercise. The widely announced loss of Antarctic ice (seen by the GRACE satellite, as published in Science 24 March, 2006) is based on only three years of data. And even if this trend is sustained, it translates into a sea-level rise of only 0.4 mm (less than 0.02 inch) per year.
Isn’t science wonderful?”
