ABC concocts global warming

THE ABC, the megaphone for every fashionable cause, is not giving up on its advocacy for global warming. On Lateline last night reporter Margot O'Neill made the following statement in relation to the success of Professor Ian Plimer's new book Heaven + Earth: " The claim that global temperatures have dropped since 1998, thus disproving a warming trend, is one of many rejected emphatically by one of the world's climate scientists, David Karoly." Karoly, of the University of Melbourne, then tried to dump a bucket on Plimer saying: "Temperatures have dropped a very small amount since 1998, both in surface temperatures and in atmospheric temperatures measured from satellites. But that doesn't mean that global warming has stopped. The temperatures, if we average from 1998 to 2008, they're warmer than the previous 10 years, or the 10 years before that, or any 10-year period over at least the last 150 years." But logic dictates that the drop in global temperatures is not a "claim", as O'Neill said, it is a scientific fact. Dropping temperatures would indicate a cooling trend, not a warming trend, which O'Neill and the ABC are hoping for in order to push the Green policies of the ALP, and its political partner, the Australian Greens. Karoly's remark has nothing to do with science, it is a personal political view, purely speculative and absolutely meaningless until temperatures start to rise again. That's Your ABC spinning as fast it can.