I suppose you've got to be philosophical about people like John Daly. He's on the public/political front of the Global Warming debate so he's not going to plead for the other side. Like your example, he has plenty of his own examples at john-daly.com, which don't get publicised by the opposing camp.
As regards the very real propaganda war I think the Global Warmers have the edge here. There is hardly a day goes by when the TV News is not forecasting doom and overheating. And then the Weather Forecast comes on to announce that much of the Northern Hemisphere is currently in the grip of one of the most severe freeze-ups for 50 years. It's all very confusing.
The trouble is that it's a very difficult topic and we know precious little about many of the factors such as long (and short) term solar cycles which will influence our climate to a great extent. However, there is a well respected scientific fact (not theory), which is the past cycle of long ice ages and short warm periods. We've a few thousand years to run in our little warm period yet and then we really will have a climate change to worry about.
Anyway for our amusement, here's a bit more well respected science from 1975.
http://www.globalclimate.org/Newsweek.htm
The lesson to be learnt is that it's dangerous to make long term forecasts from short term observations.
If you can still keep an open mind about global warming then have a long hard look at this page.
http://www.john-daly.com
This guy is very sceptical about it all and puts in some solid research to back it all up. At nearly 50, I've scare's come and go like in the late 60's when it was an accepted fact that by the year 2000 we would all have 1 square metre to stand in. Having read a lot of John Daly's evidence I think global warming falls into the same category, trendy pseudo-science.
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I suppose you've got to be philosophical about people like John Daly. He's on the public/political front of the Global Warming debate so he's not going to plead for the other side. Like your example, he has plenty of his own examples at john-daly.com, which don't get publicised by the opposing camp.
As regards the very real propaganda war I think the Global Warmers have the edge here. There is hardly a day goes by when the TV News is not forecasting doom and overheating. And then the Weather Forecast comes on to announce that much of the Northern Hemisphere is currently in the grip of one of the most severe freeze-ups for 50 years. It's all very confusing.
The trouble is that it's a very difficult topic and we know precious little about many of the factors such as long (and short) term solar cycles which will influence our climate to a great extent. However, there is a well respected scientific fact (not theory), which is the past cycle of long ice ages and short warm periods. We've a few thousand years to run in our little warm period yet and then we really will have a climate change to worry about.
Anyway for our amusement, here's a bit more well respected science from 1975. http://www.globalclimate.org/Newsweek.htm
The lesson to be learnt is that it's dangerous to make long term forecasts from short term observations.
If you can still keep an open mind about global warming then have a long hard look at this page. http://www.john-daly.com This guy is very sceptical about it all and puts in some solid research to back it all up. At nearly 50, I've scare's come and go like in the late 60's when it was an accepted fact that by the year 2000 we would all have 1 square metre to stand in. Having read a lot of John Daly's evidence I think global warming falls into the same category, trendy pseudo-science.