Here is a setback for climate hysterics who say the Earth is warming catastrophically and drastic action is needed to save us. A new study by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) shows that the planet is warming at a much slower rate than believed previously, and the atmosphere is less sensitive to rising levels of CO2 than predicted. The exhaustive study indirectly confirms recent research that shows that a jump in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has had little effect on rising temperatures.  This contradicts climate models that predict that rising levels of CO2 lead directly to rising temps. Anthony Watts: Mathematically removing the natural but transient climatic effects of volcanoes and El Niño/La Niña Pacific Ocean warming and cooling events leaves an underlying climate trend, all or some part of which might be attributed to human causes – including enhanced greenhouse forcing caused by rising levels of CO2 and other...(Read Full Post)