http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html
Climate facts to warm to
Christopher Pearson | March 22, 2008
CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the
notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping
point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a
remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael
Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of
Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in
public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will
ignore it at their peril.
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"
She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as
your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference,
then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd
expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide
levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming
down over the last 10 years."
