What a bizarre story on Sept. 23, “What 95% certainty of warming means to scientists,” that skepticism about catastrophic global warming has increased recently due to the failure of the Earth to actually warm for over a decade. Something that is not even addressed.
The scoffing is not at the lack of virtual certainty among these scientists; it is at the failure of their past predictions to come true and the disappearance of the rising temperatures upon which their initial investigation was based. If carbon causes warming (and the planet is not more sophisticated than we credit it with) temperatures should rise as more carbon is produced. Despite increased world output in carbon the temperature has not followed suit, this needs explanation and was not predicted. All of this makes comparisons between global warming theory and the theory of gravity or the rising of the sun seem idiotic.
Matt McLellan
Vancouver
