{"id":113,"date":"2008-04-30T23:11:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=113"},"modified":"2021-11-17T03:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:14:20","slug":"nicely-insulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Nicely Insulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the thrust of most reporting, one might be forgiven for not knowing this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=88520025\">the earth as a whole seems to have stopped warming for the past four or five years, and in fact seems to have slightly <em>cooled<\/em><\/a>. (And, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080412161421\/http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html\">compared against 1998, it is more clearly cooler<\/a>.) Of course, we are told that the <em>trend<\/em> is none-the-less upward.<\/p> <p>Now, some proponents of the theory of global warming have even presented a remarkable prediction:<\/p> <div style=\"padding-left: 2em ; padding-right: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7376301.stm\"><q>Next decade <\/q><q>may see no warming<\/q> by Richard Black from the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote>A new computer model developed by German researchers, reported in the journal Nature, suggests the cooling will counter greenhouse warming.<br \/><br \/>However, temperatures will again be rising quickly by about 2020, they say.<\/blockquote><\/div> <p>So now a theory of global warming allows for at least a further <em>decade<\/em> in which temperatures <em>won't actually rise<\/em>.<\/p> <p>For at least the next ten years, no matter <em>what<\/em> the temperature data say, the theory of global warming isn't to be taken as falsified.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given the thrust of most reporting, one might be forgiven for not knowing this, but the earth as a whole seems to have stopped warming for the past four or five years, and in fact seems to have slightly cooled. (And, compared against 1998, it is more clearly cooler.) Of course, we are told that [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,104,4],"tags":[189,190],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-global-warming","tag-pseudo-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11895,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/11895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}