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Global warming skeptics score a few points

Written by Ted Byfield

Monday, June 25, 2007

In the rising hysteria over the global warming issue, a kind of race against time appears to be developing. The question is: What will happen first?

Will the “global warmists” be able to stop the oilsands projects, wrecking the economy of Alberta and much of Canada in the process?

Or will the growing chorus of skeptics about global warming be able to command enough attention to put the brakes on the warmists before they do the wrecking job?

In the last week, the skeptics scored two goals.

The first was scored by a Canadian. Timothy Patterson, director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre at Carleton University in Ottawa, published an article conclusively demonstrating climate change is a permanent condition, that the Earth’s climate has never been stable.

Many times in the past the Earth’s climate has been far higher than it is today and, occasionally, temperatures were colder. As recently as 6,000 years ago, it averaged two degrees warmer than it does now.

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