Last year, 2007, some really smart galacticly inspired British "scientist" said that if we kept breathing out CO2, we would kill half of all species on Earth. And, they predicted that it would not take much of an increase at that. We were on the precipice of DOOM! DOOM I tell ya!
When CO2 levels rise and the planet heats up, species die out; when CO2 levels fall and the planet cools down, life flourishes once more. That's how nature's worked for the last half-billion years, say British scientists -- and to make it worse, predicted future temperatures are comparable to those associated with global mass extinctions.
"The first clear evidence that global climate may explain substantial variation in the fossil record in a simple and consistent manner," said University of York ecologist Peter Mayhew, a co-author of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B study. "If our results hold for current warming - the magnitude of which is comparable with the long-term fluctuations in Earth climate - they suggest that extinctions will increase.”
Recent studies by the Hadley Climate Research Center (UK), the Japan Meteorological Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of East Anglia (UK) and the University of Alabama Huntsville show clearly that the rising trend of global average temperature stopped in 2000-2001.
Unfortunately, many scientists appear to forget that weather and climate also are controlled by nature, as we witness weather changes every day and climate changes in longer terms.
The stopping of the rise in global average temperature after 2000-2001 indicates that the hypothesis and prediction made by the IPCC need serious revision. I have been suggesting during the last several years that there are at least two natural components that cause long-term climate changes.
The first is the recovery (namely, warming) from the Little Ice Age, which occurred approximately 1800-1850. The other is what we call the multi-decadal oscillation. In the recent past, this component had a positive gradient (warming) from 1910 to 1940, [Ed: remember the Dust Bowl during the 30's?] a negative gradient (cooling — many Fairbanksans remember the very cold winters in the 1960s) from 1940 to 1975 [Ed: remember the cold winters and the doomsday scientists predicting another ice age?], and then again a positive gradient (warming — many Fairbanksans have enjoyed the comfortable winters of the last few decades or so) from 1975 to about 2000. The multi-decadal oscillation peaked around 2000, and a negative trend began at that time.
The second component has a large amplitude and can overwhelm the first, and I believe that this is the reason for the stopping of the temperature rise. Since CO2 has only a positive effect, the new trend indicates that natural changes are greater than the CO2 effect, as I have stated during the last several years.