Question Earthority!

“I think it’s dangerous to view the science through the lens of whether it will help advance a policy proposal in the public arena. Yes, they are probably correct to observe that medium-term cooling (of apparently non-anthropogenic origin) will make it harder to persuade the public to take immediate action. They are also correct to observe that the long-term warming trend is still real, despite its coexistence with other cyclical factors. At the end of the day, if you keep adding a heat-absorbing substance to a system receiving thermal radiation, eventually you’ll get a system that is overall warmer (at least when averaged over the time scale of cyclical effects).” (08/20/08)