According to the global warming sceptics the climate has not been warming in the last fifteen years. In fact, also in about every 15 year before the last, the climate hasn't been warming.
This is the statistic climate ceptics are using to prove that, infographic from Skeptical Science:
In reality real climate scientists have found that the 2000s were significantly hotter than the 1990s, which were clearly hotter than the 1980s. Data that are related to the steady rise in carbon dioxide emissions.
In the U.S. the oil and coal industry spends big amounts of money influencing public opinion against science so states and people don't invest in green energy. As a result a lot of the weatherman are climate science deniers, for example Mark Johnson, chief meteorologist for ABC affiliate WEWS-TV in Cleveland, OH.
This is how Johnson represents the findings of the UK Meteorological Office that show the 2000s are the hottest decade on record:
Last week, the UK Met released its latest global temperature data to the world. It shows that the Earth has not warmed in 15 years. The warming ceased after the great super El Nino of 1998. The numbers are based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations around the planet. The data was quietly released last week without fanfare and it confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
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Johnson, just another meteorologist paid to lie.
By repugs on 01/02/2012 - 9:43Johnson, just another meteorologist paid to lie.
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By repugs on 01/02/2012 - 9:44Johnson is nothing more than a true Ohioan.
In OH a big part of add revenues come from the fossil fuel industry.
By r.u.serius on 01/02/2012 - 10:04No surprise that OH got last year’s “dirtiest state” award.
By r.u.serius on 01/02/2012 - 10:0590% of their electricity comes from coal, and natural gas and oil drilling is so encouraged by governor Kasich that he is promoting drilling in all the state parks.
His claims are based on this;
Daily Mail Fabricates Claim That There’s Been 15 Years Of No Global Warming, Despite Hottest Decade In History
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/01/30/414836/daily-mail-fabricates-claim-that-theres-been-15-years-of-no-global-warming-despite-hottest-decade-in-history/
By kloeless on 01/02/2012 - 10:15Just another Fox News owned TV station
By dreamon on 01/02/2012 - 10:32The only war George W. Bush is winning: the war on science.
By rowdy on 01/02/2012 - 10:37