al gore’s film an inconvenient truth documented the effect of ________ on climate temperature

Most of that data is freely available to scientists and others on the Internet. Since that conference, billions of dollars in government funding have generated floods of research data, a myriad of computer models, political posturing and the Kyoto Protocol. I’ve continued to follow the climate controversy, especially since the 1997 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. But the “New Ice Age” scare faded as more refined data emerged and the longer-term, slow recovery from the Little Ice Age resumed. This cooling attracted widespread press coverage and even some political pressure-to reduce “aerosols” or fine particles of pollutants which must be making our atmosphere more opaque.

states had fallen by more than six-tenths of a degree Celsius since 1930. The data looked ominous: Average temperature in the 48 U.S. Africa’s Sahel desert would expand much farther southward, spreading famine across northern Africa. In the early 1970s, I wrote a short book, Tomorrow’s Wild Weather, which warned what could happen if there was a long-term continuation of the cooling trends in the mid-latitudes since the 1930s.Īs climatologist Reid Bryson advised me at the time, a cooler climate in temperate zones would have been serious for world agriculture: Westerly winds would intensify, making U.S. I’ve studied weather and climate for more than 50 years. That would create a crisis of confidence among the activists, researchers and global-governance apparatchiks who want a global carbon tax to build their political and financial power base.Īs an agricultural journalist, I find this a fascinating new development in the climate controversy. There’s a real possibility that big-name journalists will break ranks and pursue their next Pulitzer Prize by exposing the lack of scientific consensus on CO 2 as a planet-heating pollutant. In the past several months, a new “crisis” has heated up the controversy over man-made global warming.Ī few major-media writers and TV personalities are actually reporting statements by credible scientists who are challenging the assumption that carbon dioxide is the primary force causing global warming. The Chinese word for crisis is a combination of the two ideograms Wei, which means “danger” and Ji, which means “opportunity.”

Al gore’s film an inconvenient truth documented the effect of ________ on climate temperature