Scientists Confirm That Global Warming Is a Lie

by Van Helsing | July 24, 2009 1:38 pm

A peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Geophysical Research confirms what anyone who isn’t drunk on Kool-Aid has already figured out: fluctuations in the climate are not caused by capitalism. Via Climate Depot[1]:

According to this study little or none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to human activity.

The research, by Chris de Freitas, a climate scientist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, John McLean (Melbourne) and Bob Carter (James Cook University), finds that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a key indicator of global atmospheric temperatures seven months later. As an additional influence, intermittent volcanic activity injects cooling aerosols into the atmosphere and produces significant cooling.

“The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Niño conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Niña conditions less likely” says corresponding author de Freitas.

“We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century. It may even be more if the period of influence of major volcanoes can be more clearly identified and the corresponding data excluded from the analysis.”

Fluctuations in solar activity account for most of what El Niño and volcanoes don’t. Even if CO2 has any effect at all, the vast majority of it is generated naturally. The likely effect of all human activity is effectively zero — difficult as it may be for liberals to accept that the weather could escape their regulations.

Bob Carter, one of four scientists who has recently questioned the justification for the proposed Australian emissions trading scheme, says that this paper has significant consequences for public climate policy.

“The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions. The available data indicate that future global temperatures will continue to change primarily in response to ENSO cycling, volcanic activity and solar changes.”

“Our paper confirms what many scientists already know: which is that no scientific justification exists for emissions regulation, and that, irrespective of the severity of the cuts proposed, ETS (emission trading scheme) will exert no measurable effect on future climate.”

But I’m sure grasping hucksters like Al Gore know much better.

Hat tip: Planet Gore[2]. On a tip from V the K[3]. Cross-posted at Moonbattery[4].