As recently as two years ago, former finance minister Nick Minchin was mocked on the ABC’s Q&A for suggesting that temperatures had plateaued. “There is a major problem with the warmist argument because we have had rising CO2 but we haven’t had the commensurate rise in temperature that the IPCC predicted,” he said. “That’s just not true Nick,” responded Anna Rose, chairwoman of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. The University of NSW’s Matthew England joined in. “What Nick just said is actually not true. The IPCC projections of 1990 have borne out very accurately the projections now 22 years old.” As it happens, it was true. The 1990 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report predicted temperature rises of 0.3C each decade. In fact, according to the latest report global temperatures have risen only 0.14C per decade since 1978. theaustralian.au/news/time-for-cooler-heads-to-prevail/story-e6frg6n6-1227096554835?from=google%20current_rss%0A%3Ffrom%3Dpublic_rss&utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&net_sub_uid=32535672
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:19:08 +0000