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During 2008, have we seen many stories in the newspapers about 2007 being particularly warm as a result of global warming?During 2006, the doomsters were predicting that 2007 would be the hottest year on record, so why have we seen no reports about this?
The answer is simple – 2007 turned out to be the coolest year for 30 years. It is also the case that there has been no global warming since 1998. In fact, since 1998, there has been steady cooling.Even more dramatic is the fact that the most recent computer model predictions indicate that there will be no more global warming for the next ten years. But the doomsters say that, after this ten-year period, global warming will come back with a vengeance.
Why? Certainly, mankind's production of carbon dioxide (CO2) has continued to increase since 1998 and will continue to increase, particularly since countries such as China and India say that their economic growth comes first, so they do not intend worrying too much about CO2 production.I have repeatedly pointed out that there is little or no link between CO2 production by mankind and a rise in global temperature. In fact, indications are that it is the opposite – an increased temperature causes more CO2 to be ejected into the atmosphere.In the time of the Viking settlements on Greenland, about 1 000 years ago, there was a period of warming.
That is why the Viking settlements flourished and they could grow grapes and maize, which puzzled the archaeologists.Then it cooled, and the last Viking supply ship arrived at the settlements in 1410, after which it all froze up.The world then experienced the Little Ice Age, during the time of Shakespeare and Jan van Riebeeck. The Thames froze over, and there was a period of economic decline, in comparison to the economic boom during the Medieval period of global warming.There was also an earlier warming period, known as the Roman Warming, during the period of Roman economic prosperity.
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