MY letter “Doomed to failure” (Bay Post, April 24) indicated the probable outcome of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Paris in December.
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The Obama administration is the major political force seeking to get agreement that man-made carbon dioxide emissions (they call pollution) are causing dangerous climate change.
Recall the Copenhagen debacle in 2007.
My letter mentioned Dr James Hansen, the “godfather of catastrophic global warming”.
His testimony to Congress launched the alarmism for Al Gore’s stories, and our council acts on these stories, at our cost.
Dr John Christy and Dr Roy Spencer, employed by NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Centre, announced on March 29, 1990, their study of temperature data from satellites indicated the world was not warming as much as was believed.
Christy and Spencer pionerred how to use satellites to produce real numbers from observations from real satellites, and not political make-believe.
The Paris meeting is doomed because its make-believe platform cannot explain why the Earth’s average surface temperature refuses to rise.
On April 28, Drs Spencer, Christy and Braswell released their most extensive revision of the procedures and computer code.
This work confirms the stasis in the global average lower tropospheric temperature.
Neville Hughes
Surf Beach
