Two recent studies provide further evidence that climate change
sceptics are simply burying their heads in the sand. Both
studies, one in Europe the other in the US are showing that not
only does increasing atmospheric CO2 lead to higher
temperatures, but that higher temperatures appear to cause CO2
to increase. That’s a ‘psitive feedback loop’ kids. Great if
you’re trying to get your amp to howl. Very bad if you want a
stable, sustainable climate. First, researchers at Wageningen
University (Netherlands), the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research (Germany) and the Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology (UK) have been examining data from proxy sources (ice
cores and such) over the period following the Middle Ages’
‘little ice age’. Their findings strongly suggest that global
warming will be accelerated by the effects of climate change on
the rate of carbon dioxide increase. Second, scientists at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory studying the Vostok ice
core data have found that the 21st Century may