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**dXI9XFOA** · 02-08-2012, 01:40 AM

Warming data show shades of grey

THE former deputy prime minister of Britain was apocalyptic. "Our polar ice caps are melting," thundered John Prescott. "Only this weekend Mexico was hit by freak snowstorms ... a world of drought and crop failures, rising seas, mass migration and disease ... rising greenhouse grasses (sic)." The year was 1997 and Prescott had just come back from Kyoto in Japan to give the House of Commons his account of the latest climate talks.

Prescott's terrifying warnings were backed by Britain's leading climate scientists. Just before Kyoto a Met Office report warned that climate-related floods would put 50 million people at risk of death from starvation in the coming decades. Whole island nations would disappear, it added, while the American midwest, which helps to feed 100 nations, was likely to face drought and the North Pole might melt.

That was 15 years ago - what has happened to world temperatures since then? Last month came the suggestion that the answer was, embarrassingly, nothing. Research based on Met Office figures pointed to temperatures having been flat since 1997.

t was the kind of admission that those who doubt climate science pounce on. "Forget global warming" trumpeted the Mail on Sunday, because "the planet has not warmed in 15 years". It then cited other research, into the declining energy output of the sun, to suggest the real danger was from a big freeze, raising the prospect of a reprise of the frost fairs held on the frozen Thames in the 17th century.... http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226264121900

Maunder minimum closing in.

02-08-2012, 01:40 AM	#8
dXI9XFOA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 562 Senior Member	Warming data show shades of grey THE former deputy prime minister of Britain was apocalyptic. "Our polar ice caps are melting," thundered John Prescott. "Only this weekend Mexico was hit by freak snowstorms ... a world of drought and crop failures, rising seas, mass migration and disease ... rising greenhouse grasses (sic)." The year was 1997 and Prescott had just come back from Kyoto in Japan to give the House of Commons his account of the latest climate talks. Prescott's terrifying warnings were backed by Britain's leading climate scientists. Just before Kyoto a Met Office report warned that climate-related floods would put 50 million people at risk of death from starvation in the coming decades. Whole island nations would disappear, it added, while the American midwest, which helps to feed 100 nations, was likely to face drought and the North Pole might melt. That was 15 years ago - what has happened to world temperatures since then? Last month came the suggestion that the answer was, embarrassingly, nothing. Research based on Met Office figures pointed to temperatures having been flat since 1997. t was the kind of admission that those who doubt climate science pounce on. "Forget global warming" trumpeted the Mail on Sunday, because "the planet has not warmed in 15 years". It then cited other research, into the declining energy output of the sun, to suggest the real danger was from a big freeze, raising the prospect of a reprise of the frost fairs held on the frozen Thames in the 17th century.... http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226264121900 Maunder minimum closing in.
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