Letters to the Editor
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diary of an AGW skeptic
well, it's day one, time zero for my study of global warming on a local scale: 4:00 PM July 1, 2008
Time is now 1 hour (5 pm). i believe i am beginning to see a definite cooling trend. if this continues, it will put the nail in the coffin of this AGW nonsense.
Hour 2: temperatures continue to drop, at an accelerating rate. conclusive proof that global warming, if it ever existed, is over.
Hour 3: even laypersons without access to my sophisticated thermometric equipment have begun to note that it has cooled off. popular support for the big lie is fading.
Hour 5: due to sustained rapid drop, i am taking time points more spread apart now. the trend is so clear, i don't see how the AGW folks can deny it.
Hour 7: Time for bed. At this point the local global temperature has dropped so low that I need a light blanket. This would certainly not have been true, a mere 12 hours ago!
Hour 12: I awake and check my thermometric instruments with excitement. Yes! It is even cooler than it was at hour 7!!
Hour 15: A possibly worrisome datapoint. The global temperature locally has begun to rise again, slightly. an end to global cooling? evidence that the climate goes through natural cycles without human influence?
hour 18: the local global temperature continues to rise rapidly. i have no doubt AGW cultists will attribute this to continued AGW, without mention of the profound cooling trend I have recorded, but this time I will have data to counter them!
hour 24: the global temperature is now as high as it was at time zero.
still, that is evidence that the temperature has leveled off, not evidence of warming. and if the carbon dioxide has continued to increase during the experiment, which I am sure it has, then the obvious cooling and warming unrelated to any change in carbon dioxide proves there is no connection. I shall soon repeat this experiment with measurements of carbon dioxide, if Time Magazine sends me a carbon dioxide measurement instrument to go with this thermometer they sent me when I subscribed.
now, to publish! i know that it won't be easy to fight the vast wealth and power of the climatology cartel, who will stop at nothing to ensure that my findings are not reported, but luckily i have found other brave souls on the internet who will not cooperate in stifling the truth, and provide a forum for real experimental research such as mine, in preference to those "models" beloved of Al Gore and his ilk.