A new policy direction for climate change
Bob Carter writes in the April issue of Quadrant:
Get this. First, there has been no recent global warming in the common meaning of the term, for world average temperature has cooled for the last ten years. Furthermore, since 1940 the earth has warmed for nineteen years and cooled for forty-nine, the overall result being that global average temperature is now about the same as it was in 1940.
Second, this lack of overall warming over the last sixty-eight years happened despite an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide of more than 20 per cent; which is no surprise, because, notwithstanding that it is a greenhouse gas, the increase in the warming effect of carbon dioxide beyond 1940 levels is diminishingly small.
Read Bob Carter’s article at Quadrant Online.
Also in the April issue of Quadrant:
Ӣ How to win in Afghanistan (Justin Kelly)
Ӣ Kevin Rudd as philosopher-politician (Geoffrey Luck)
Ӣ Reflections of a neo-liberal (Steven Kates)
Ӣ Tributes to Peter Howson (Ray Evans, Colin Balmer, Tony Abbott)
”¢ John Howard’s pro-American trade legacy (Alan Oxley)
Ӣ The mesmerising Guy Pearce (Michael Connor)
”¢ On cinema’s “humanisation” of Hitler (Paul Monk)
