Stop - Don't Confuse Us With Facts

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Ignoring Science: "The true believers will not be moved by the peer-reviewed findings of Chris de Freitas, John McLean and Bob Carter, scientists at universities in Australia and New Zealand...

Their research, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, indicates that nature, not man, has been the dominant force in climate change in the late 20th century.

'The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Nino conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Nina conditions less likely' says co-author de Freitas.

'We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century. It may even be more if the period of influence of major volcanoes can be more clearly identified and the corresponding data excluded from the analysis.'"

More facts to add to the growing mountain of evidence that crap and trade is not not only economically disastrous, but environmentally insignificant.