I'm not a meteorologist, climatologist or scientist of any type. I do consider myself to be smarter than the average bear, informed, a natural skeptic of most things and fairly analytical. That being said, I depend on reputable scientists for information and since their studies are often not easy to read for the lay man I depend on analysts and publications to put the studies into context for me. I have read the same things stating that NOAA and the IPCC report that global average temps have not risen in the last 15-17 years. When Ronald Bailey, a respected science correspondent, and Dr. James Hansen, a proponent of AGW, who works at Columbia University and NASA report these things and there isn't a immediate castigation of them I take it as fact.


Ronald Bailey -
Ronald Bailey : Staff - Reason.com
Heads Up Climate Change Combatants: Global Warming Likely To Resume This Year - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Dr. Hansen -
Global Warming at a "Standstill" Admits Man-Made Warming Proponent Hansen - Hit & Run : Reason.com
James Hansen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


When Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville shows that most of the AGW predictive models were incorrect in the climate behavior over the last 10+years I take a serious pause on how well we think we understand the climate. The earth's climate is and has always been fluid. We have had something around 10 ice ages since the planets beginning and each has been followed by a warming period. So the question isn't really is the earth's climate warming but what affect does human behavior have on it. If I and 99 other people took a data sampling and derived a methodology to predict future results but 95 of us were wrong then the correct response would be that there is something wrong with our data (which there very well might be considering the condition of many weather stations), the methodology of the predictive analysis or both. I don't deny climate change, nor do I deny that we are in a warming trend on the planet, nor do I deny that with billions of us alive that human behavior can affect the climate but my analysis of the science provided is that the scientific community does not understand the relationship between human behavior and the climate's change nearly as well as they thought they did.


Dr. Christy
John Christy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Climatologist John Christy: "The Science Is Not Settled" - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Dr. Christy's data
Global Temperature Report :: UAHuntsville
Weather Station Issues
Amazing Climate Predictions Revealed—Climate Models Reviled - Reason.com