I sig selv ret banebrydende artikel fra selveste the Economist, der ellers ikke er kendt for at høre til blandt de klimaskeptiske. Måske varsler det en ny kurs og nye tider:
OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO₂ put there by humanity since 1750. And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observes, “the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.”
Og bemærk så lige figur 1.
Selvfølgelig er det, ifølge the Economist, for tidligt at afblæse den globale opvarmning. Men bare 5 år til uden opadgående udvikling i temperaturen vil betyde, at vi ryger negativit ud af forudsigelsesområdet.
