Can Climate Campaigns Withstand a Cooling Test?

[Admiral Beez]

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/can-climate-campaigns-withstand-a-cooling-test/?hp

Hmmm....looks like North America is going to be colder in the next few years, but that won't stop the global warming crowd, we'll just call it climate change instead, in order to capture any perceived variation.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

aren't we going through la nina?

 

[Hydrogen]

It's a little more than just La Nina. The climate of the North Atlantic region exhibits fluctuations on the multi-decade scale. It is well known that the Atlantic Ocean undergoes oscillations over a period of 70 to 80 years. This Atlantic multidecadal variability has an effect on climate. There may also may a shift in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation underway as well.

It always worth taking model predictions with a big grain of salt. The IPCC models have never accurately predicted either an El Nino or La Nina event - and they (the IPCC) are pretending to forecast climate out over 50 or 100 years. The fact is that the full effects of these coupled ocean-atmosphere circulations are not very well understood, but that they do have a significant effect on climate.