[lbo-talk] "Global Warming Has Stopped"

[Somebody Somebody]

Gleick is right on this. How thrilling that he gets to be right in Forbes. There is no serious scientific debate about the rise in global mean surface temps, hasn't been any for at least a decade. As he describes, public claims to the contrary usually pick a short sequence in a time series -- there are a couple to choose from -- starting with a relatively high value. This graphic illustrates the technique:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=47

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Whether or not the right plays games with the issue - there's still the matter of whether global warming should be a central issue for the left. There's still a question over whether socialists should shove their traditional core issues aside and become an appendage of bourgeois environmentalism. Is it left-wing to join in with the right and tell the working class: guess what, remember how we talked about liberating the productive forces and advancing from where capitalism left off? Forget all that - now austerity and anti-consumerism is the order of the day, because mother earth takes priority over human interests.