Quote Originally Posted by MrEmann View Post
This shall be exhibit B

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded....
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While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.
You left out the most dramatic claim from this article: "Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming".

Very dramatic. And very wrong! First off he admits that much of his "data" is anecdotal. He then describes weather patterns and tries to imply that they are indicative of climate patterns as well. This is just not true. All of his information is for a one year period between January 2007 and January 2008. Climate patterns can only be honestly judged over much longer time spans than that. Just off the top of my head I can recall that there is an 11 year (I think) solar cycle which can affect weather AND climate. All of the known natural cycles are already accounted for by climate scientists when they make their warnings of global climate change.

And if you had checked this author's source you would have seen a problem right away. He provides a link to the source just before making this alarming statement: The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years."

Well, turns out that there is an "UPDATE AND CAVEAT" a short ways down in which YOUR source is mentioned. Anthony Watts, the person who provided the information for Michael Asher, your source, says categorically: "I wish to state for the record, that this statement is not mine: “–a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years”

There has been no “erasure”. This is an anomaly with a large magnitude, and it coincides with other anecdotal weather evidence. It is curious, it is unusual, it is large, it is unexpected, but it does not “erase” anything."

Now, if this "anomaly" has continued over the past three years, then we might have an interesting story. But I haven't seen any evidence of that. Have you?