More Inconvenient Truths

More climate data you won't find in the New York Times, appears in the June 13 issue of Geophysical Research Letters (a peer reviewed publication of the American Geophysical Union) and it's not good news for "An Inconvenient Truth" (which apparently was also peerreviewed, but by Al Gore's peers--pot smoking hippies).

Apparently "An Inconvenient Truth" contends that a rise in human caused global temperatures from greenhouse gas emissions are currently melting the Greenland Ice Sheet and we're going to need to start building dikes aroundManhattan less we suffer an invasion of Nordic ice water.

As the study says:

"An important question is to what extent can the current (1995-2005) temperature increase in Greenland coastal regions be interpreted as evidence of man-induced global warming? Although there has been a considerable temperature increase during the last decade (1995 to 2005) a similar increase and at a faster rate occurred during the early part of the 20th century (1920 to 1930) when carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases could not be a cause. The Greenland warming of 1920 to 1930 demonstrates that a high concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is not a necessary condition for period of warming to arise. The observed 1995-2005 temperature increase seems to be within a natural variability of Greenland climate. A general increase in solar activity [Scafettaand West, 2006] since 1990s can be a contributing factor as well as the sea surface temperature changes of tropical ocean [Hoerling et al., 2001]."