From John Hawkins of Right Wing News and his interview with Dennis Avery, co-author of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years:
...The very mild warming that the earth experienced over the last century: does that have more to do with mankind's activities or the sun?
It seems like it must be the sun. The reason we say that is because 70% of the warming we've had since 1850, when the Little Ice Age ended -- 70% of that warming came before 1940. 85% of the human emitted greenhouse gasses came after 1940. In fact, the net warming of the earth since 1940 is a miniscule 2/10 of 1 degree celsius....
One of the things that really annoys me about global warming alarmists is how they invariably select some point in time, before today but not so long ago that nobody remembers it, and compare us today to that time. As if they know exactly what is the absolute perfect weather condition for the planet, forever. "It seems warmer than it was when I was a kid," they think. So what? Why not be happy that you're freezing your ass off a little less than you used to?
Another question related to your last book: if you listen to global warming alarmists, they'll tell you that the earth is warmer than it ever has been during mankind's history. Is that true?
No. Absolutely untrue. The...warming before our last ice age was much warmer than anything we've had since. We had a warming that peaked 9000 years ago, another warming that peaked 5000 years ago. Both were warmer than today. Probably the Roman warming and the medieval warming were both warmer than today -- and we've had 8 warmings of the earth since the last Ice Age.
Of course. Things have been warmer before, they've been colder before.
You've recently said you believe we're about to experience mild global cooling. Can you tell us about that?
We are experiencing now, mild global cooling. We had a peak temperature in 1998, at the end of a hot El Nino and the climate model said this is just the beginning, it's going to get much hotter. But, it didn't. For 10 years, the temperature held stable.
During this time, from 2000 onward, the sunspots were predicting cooling. Let me point out to your readers that sunspots have had a strong history of predicting our temperature changes 10 years from now. A 10 year lag in predicting how solar activity will warm or cool the ocean. But, from 2000 on, they were predicting cooling.
2007, we got it. 2007 was significantly cooler and that was the first major downturn in the temperature in 30 years. That cooling has persisted -- at this point, in temperature, about back where we were in the year 1900.
Yesterday, I debated a guy on the Irish radio network and he said, "Oh that's not true, the UN has not told me that the temperatures went down." I said, "If the UN can't read their own thermometers they're in even bigger trouble than I thought."
But, the Hadley Centre in Britain, the Goddard Space Institute here in the US, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, which gathers data from the temperature satellites, all told us the temperatures have gone down. They also just announced weeks ago that their...satellite shows the Pacific has shifted into a cooling phase. This is important because for the last 400 years, the earth's temperatures have mirrored the temperatures in the Northern Pacific.
...The end of the warming phase was 1998 then the Pacific fluttered around for 10 years...and now the cooling phase has begun, is likely to last for another 25-30 years....moderate cooling, not another ice age -- the same sort of cooling we had from 1940-1976.
Many global warming alarmists say there is a scientific consensus on global warming, that almost everyone agrees with them, almost unanimously among scientists. Is that true?
...With the temperatures scheduled for a 25 year cooling, I think the consensus just went out the window. I think the consensus people have just run off a cliff like Wile E. Coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons and they're in mid-air with their feet spinning madly while they wait for the earth to smash them to the ground far below.
Obviously. And when the same people are ginning up fear about global cooling in another decade, asking for the same socialist and anti-capitalist solutions they asked for with global warming, will most first-world people be duped again? Of course they will. Hopefully you won't be, and hopefully you weren't fooled by it this time around.
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