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Could USA’s extreme hot weather shake the faith of climate change denialists?

El Nino may be good for Labor The West, Andrew Probyn  July 6, 2012, Shhhh! Don’t mention the war. As the great heatwave struck the US, knocking off thousands of temperature records, Bob Henson, a meteorologist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, was asked this week whether any of this could be down to
climate change.

“Climate change is a political question,” he told Fairfax’s US correspondent Nick O’Malley.

“I thought it was a scientific question,” O’Malley responded.

“Well, it’s both.”

This was a fascinating exchange. Especially in a week where scientists could confidently announce they had confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle.
Comparatively speaking, there’s less evidence of the Higgs boson than there is of climate change, but we believed the scientists when they told us they had found the elusive subatomic particle that explained mass.

The fact that Mr Henson went straight to the politics of climate change, rather than going to the cause of climate change (anthropomorphic or otherwise) speaks volumes for the success of the campaign against the so-called “warmists”…..http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/opinion/post/-/blog/14153477/el-nino-may-be-good-for-labor/

July 7, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general