Climate change

I am also a scientist, an oceanographer and certified consulting meteorologist. I know that the 97 percent consensus has been repeated enough to make people believe it to be true, but it is, in fact, a lie which has been rebutted. 

The Cook study attempted to survey 10,000 scientists, yet the author whittled the number of responses to 77 people (not scientists!) to meet their agenda. There is no consensus on whether the warming which occurred recently, since 1970, is anthropogenic. Certainly the warming occurring since the Little Ice Age, since about 1850, is not CO2 related.

Similar warming has occurred previously, in the 1930s, for example, when most of the high temperature records in the United States were set. That was well before any increase in CO2.

The historical record in ice cores confirms that each time there were large fluctuations in temperature and CO2, temperature increased first, then CO2. In other words, temperature increases cause increases in CO2, not the other way around.

I suggest you look at NOAA’s Climate Reference Network which since 2004 has shown no warming, apart from the 2016 El Niño event. That data is in pristine areas, and therefore does not need the adjustments for urban effects that provide the opportunity to adjust the historical temperature record. 

Man has always preferred warmer temperatures; we settled Greenland, and later had the Renaissance in warmer times, but had the Black Death, and the pilgrims almost perished during the Little Ice Age.

Bob Cohen

Menlo Park