Much ado about nothing

The press is all a buzz over the NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on “global warming” that was released today. The problem is, they are overstating and over blowing the information that the report provides.

You will more than likely run across at least one headline today that will read something like this, “Earth at a 2,000 year high, Humans to blame”. The problem with the headline is that it is designed to deliberately alarm its reader and in doing so, causes undo panic.

400 Years ago, our planet fell under a little ice age that lasted for hundreds of years. The Earth has only been ‘recovering’ from this ice age for a little over 150 years. So of course there will be significant data to show that our planet is on a steep climb in the “hot” direction… we’re on the flipside of an ice age that devastated civilizations.

There are very few media outlets that are addressing the REAL issue with the report. The author of the study refuses to share his data, or his collection methods. Not to mention the fact that one of the more prominent ways he came about this conclusion was by using bristlecone pine trees as a source of obtaining temperature data. A method that is KNOWN to be highly inaccurate.

The reports are riddled with words like “plausible” and “possibly”, and yet our media is reporting this as if it were cold hard fact. I’ll buy the 400 year timeline but I’m calling BS on 2000+ years until someone can find a way to provide credible findings and are willing to open up their methods to the public so that they can be verified.