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Friday, November 20, 2009

Der Spiegel bought off by fossil fuel interests!!!

DEAR READERS,

I STRONGLY URGE YOU ALL TO WRITE IN TO DER SPIEGEL AND COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS ARTICLE FULL OF LIES ABOUT GLOBAL TEMPERATURES.  IN FACT, I NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN.  IF ANYONE CAN FIND ME THE CONTACT E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS TYPE OF SHOCKING LIES, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME -- I HAVE MANY OTHER PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COMPLAIN. 

THIS ARTICLE IS A STRONG INDICATION OF THE FAR REACHING POWER OF THE MONEY OF THE OIL AND COAL COMPANIES.  IT IS REALLY SHOCKING.

Stagnating Temperatures

Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

By Gerald Traufetter

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.


Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.

Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.

Reached a Plateau
The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."

Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend, it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models, and it is also a political issue. For months, climate change skeptics have been gloating over the findings on their Internet forums. This has prompted many a climatologist to treat the temperature data in public with a sense of shame, thereby damaging their own credibility.

"It cannot be denied that this is one of the hottest issues in the scientific community," says Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. "We don't really know why this stagnation is taking place at this point."

AND MORE OF SIMILAR DISTORTION AND LIES ....

Look here:  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html

4 comments:

Sue said...

Hi Tenney, I do some freelance work for a firm of solicitors, and they've been fighting a website containing defamatory content! The way that they dealt with it was to threaten legal action against the HOSTING company, that hosts the website. Apparently, according to UK law it is the host company that is liable for the legality of content, just as a publisher of a magazine would be. Hope that this insight helps and offers a legal recourse to anyone who finds GW denial information online.... Of course you've got to be prepared to take legal action - or bluff!

Tenney Naumer said...

Dear Sue,

This is an excellent idea. Would that I had the resources to wage such a battle.

Tenney Naumer said...

When I lived in Holland, there were laws there that made it illegal to use Nazi slogans and to deny the events of WWII.

Eventually, when it is far too late, we may have similar laws concerning global warming.

In any case, people should be held responsible for delaying action, especially if they were paid by fossil-fuel interests.

10in10Diet.com said...

When George Monbiot announces that 'we're losing', it's bad.
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/11/02/death-denial/

Lynn Shwadchuck
http://www.10in10diet.com/
Diet for a small footprint, and a small grocery bill.