Global climate change standstill

Hank Hostetler
November 22
7:30 pm

According to this article, well known scientists have reported that as a global average, climate change has been non-existent since 1999. There have been unusually high temperature rises in the arctic however, but the lower temperatures in North America and elsewhere have evened out the average in global climate change. Some scientists disagree with this finding, saying that parts of the arctic have not been accounted for in the averaging of the global climate change. Predictions for climate change show increases in a straight line, but scientists say that natural occurrences will cause the predictions to fluctuate as time passes. The article states that scientists generally agree global temperatures will rise in the long term, if not in the next decade. The stagnant global climate has raised eyebrows as many world leaders will meet in Copenhagen this December to discuss lowering greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
This article provided information on several interesting causes of global temperature fluctuations. It also seemed unbiased for the most part, giving opposing views. The biggest annoyance I have with articles about global climate change is the "facts" are always different. I do not understand why scientists cannot agree on whether the global temperature has risen or fallen on average over the last decade. There has to be one answer for this question. Sure, the argument is that some temperatures have apparently not been mixed into the global average. First, finding these temperatures should not be a problem with the weather predicting technology available today. Second, if these temperatures are known, and some scientists seem to think they know them, why are they not being mixed into the global average facts?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-662092,00.html