August 24, 2012

Models, Not Climate, Are Hypersensitive to Carbon Dioxide

By Steve Milloy
The Kyoto Protocol is expiring this year, having accomplished what climate skeptics expected -- nothing. Manmade greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric greenhouse are up while global temperature have gone nowhere, the latter a trend that started years before Kyoto went into effect. But before the international climate kleptocracy descends en masse to its next exotic location (Doha, Qatar in November 2012) to try breathing life into the Kyoto Protocol, someone should check under the hood to review what is trying to be achieved and why. JunkScience.com has done this work and we have come to the conclusion that the Kyoto Protocol is a clunker that should be allowed to expire without progeny. As a column like this is too short to cover any real detail, we have prepared about 20 pages of explanation in downloadable PDF format. But here is a very brief and simplified overview. Climate concern originally began because the planet appeared to have warmed about seven tenths of one degree...(Read Full Article)