Cue a little blog jealousy…
George Monbiot seems to have dropped in to Michael Moore’s CairnsBlog to comment on a video by the potty peer Christopher Monckton. Here’s Monbiot’s comment in full:
Even if you were to exclude every line of evidence that could possibly be disputed (regarding Climategate) – the proxy records, the computer models, the complex science of clouds and ocean currents – the evidence for man-made global warming would still be unequivocal. You can see it in the measured temperature record, which goes back to 1850; in the shrinkage of glaciers and the thinning of sea ice; in the responses of wild animals and plants and the rapidly changing crop zones.
No other explanation for these shifts makes sense. Solar cycles have been out of synch with the temperature record for 40 years. The Milankovic cycle, which describes variations in the Earth’s orbit, doesn’t explain it either. But the warming trend is closely correlated with the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. The impact of these gases can be demonstrated in the laboratory. To assert that they do not have the same effect in the atmosphere, a novel and radical theory would be required. No such theory exists. The science is not fixed – no science ever is – but it is as firm as science can be. The evidence for man-made global warming remains as strong as the evidence linking smoking to lung cancer or HIV to Aids.
It’s a nice brief summary of where climate science stands. I wonder if Michael Moore recognised Monbiot’s name. Monbiot has, in recent times, gained a lot of attention for pwning Ian Plimer, possibly Australia’s second best known climate change denier behind Andrew Bolt.
I do like Moore’s CairnsBlog, particularly for a bit of local government gossip, but why did he have to put Monckton on it? Argh! I also don’t think the word Lord should ever be used to prefix the potty peer’s name.
I also couldn’t help noticing one simpleton stepping up to claim the “Mike’s Nature trick” email was a smoking gun despite the fact I had explained it away in an earlier comment in the very same thread. Anthropocentric climate change deniers are starting to annoy me almost as much as Creationists.
