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So now Kyoto is a reality, will it get cooler? : Comments
By Jennifer Marohasy, published 16/2/2005Jennifer Marohasy argues climate change is an ongoing process, regardless of carbon dioxide emissions.
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Last week Reuters reported James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goodard Institute for Space Studies trying to explain this by saying that the warm temperatures of 1998 were due to severe El Nino conditions in the Pacific. He then said that weak El Ninos contributed to warming in 2002 and 2003.
In other words Hansen, a long-time believer in carbon dioxide as the major cause of warming, is now saying that even weak natural events can influence temperature.
I dare say that some "expert" will tell us that a computer model says X amount of warming is due to natural causes but don't forget that every model contains assumptions and these may be be inaccurate or completely invalid.
It is clear that (a) the uncertain correlation between carbon dioxide and temperature undermines the basis for the Kyoto Agreement, and (b) that more knowledge is desperately needed in the field of climate science.