Ahhh, I didn't know this - it turns out that Stu Ostrum, the weather channel guy whose youtube videos the rightwing likes to trot out, (I think I have that attribution correct, please correct me if I am wrong.) has reversed his position from the mid oughts and now says anthropogenic global warming is happening.
From a few days ago...
http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_22625.html
Quote:
And it could be said that while the skeptics might currently be sweating due to what's going on climatically and meteorologically, during the past couple of years my own faith in those climate scientists and data and models was tested due to such things as the "Climategate" email imbroglio and a temporary cooling of the Earth, but that my faith has emerged still strong. In fact, my point of view is now stronger than ever that our changing climate is a serious problem. With the goal of being objective and open-minded, I changed my point of view from what it was in the days of the Fred Singer article, and would do so again if that's what the evidence shows. But it does not.
As I wrote back in 2006, global warming is not a religion. The chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics involved are science, not religion, nor are they liberal or conservative.
Some have pointed to the sharp dip in globally-averaged temperatures during the past couple of years, coupled with a peak in 1998, as proof that global warming stopped. But when smoothing out the short-term wiggles the long-term trend is still up.
Those noisy ups-and-downs are the result of year-to-year natural variability which has always and will always be present. Natural variability and anthropogenic global warming are not mutually exclusive!
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