Volume 8, Number 49: 7 December 2005 Climate alarmists have long
contended that the historical and still-ongoing rise in the
air's CO2 content - aided and abetted by the historical increase
in atmospheric methane concentration - will lead to dangerous
global warming that could rival temperature increases
experienced during prior glacial-to-interglacial transitions.
Now, new light has been shed on the subject by two reports that
provide CO2, methane and temperature data stretching a full
650,000 years back in time (Siegenthaler et al., 2005; Spahni et
al., 2005), based on measurements made on East Antarctica's Dome
Concordia ice core, which was originally extracted and cursorily
analyzed by Augustin et al. (2004). What are politically-correct
scientists saying about the new findings? Los Angeles Times
staff writer Usha McFarling (25 Nov 2005) reports they claim
"the work provides more evidence that human activity since the
Industrial Revolution has significantly altered the planet's
climate system." As an exam