Another Story to Ignore

0 Comments | Insight on the News, July 30, 2001

It must astonish Insight readers when they encounter yet another elite media account of the imminent dangers of global warming. Every few months, it seems, this magazine reports another study calling such fears into question and exposing them as based on questionable scientific theories. Well, here we go again. A study found in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society and reported by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) indicates that high cirrus clouds appear to help regulate global temperature. Opening and closing like the iris of the human eye, they open to release surface heat to provide cooling or close to raise the surface temperatures.

Scientists studied a large section of the western tropical Pacific Ocean and concluded that climate modelers should scale back by as much as two-thirds their estimates of warming that would result from a doubling of carbon dioxide. The original article in the Bulletin is titled "Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?" and a follow-up was done by the NCPPR, "Natural Heat Vent May Counter Global Warming." Unfortunately, it will be a cold day in Tahiti when the global-warming hustlers pay attention to news such as this.