Another Nail In the Global Warming Coffin | Power Line
Statistics Norway, the government agency that produces official statistics for that country, released a report last month titled To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? The report concludes:
[T]he results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations. In other words, our analysis indicates that with the current level of knowledge, it seems impossible to determine how much of the temperature increase is due to emissions of CO2.
The report looks at the last 400,000+ years of Earth s climate history:
The preceding four interglacial periods are seen at about 125,000, 280,000, 325,000 and 415,000 years before now, with much longer glacial periods in between. All four previous interglacial periods are seen to be warmer than the present. The typical length of a glacial period is about 100,000 years, while an interglacial period typically lasts for about 10-15,000 years. The present inter-glacial period has now lasted about 11,600 years.
So sometime relatively soon, the Earth is going to start getting really, really cold. This accompanying chart shows that history, based on ice cores:
Elon Musk recently said in one interview or another that an irony-maximization rule seems to be the predictor of history. The climate debate seems well on its way to conforming with that rule. Maybe what we need is more SUVs, more gas stoves, more pointless airline vacations, more BBQs, more drag races, and more 10,000 square foot houses to spare ourselves freezing to death in the next ice age.