Will Al Gore Have To Cancel His Subscription Now?

The Economist is a highly regarded global news source, though with admittedly left leaning tendencies.  Its archives provide a global and international perspective on events here in America going back to before the American Civil War.  And until recently it has been a proud sponsor of the intellectual argument for Climate change, formerly known as global warming.  But their sensibility (at least on this issue) may have finally caught up with them.

OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO2 put there by humanity since 1750. And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observes, “the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.”

If the weather man says it is “raining” but no one bothers to look out a window….? So somebody looked out a “window” then, did they?

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