Saturday, January 5, 2013

Not Guilty

A statistical study published in the journal Earth System Dynamics, authored by M. Beenstock, Y. Reingewertz, and N. Paldor, finds that humans are not responsible for global warming, if warming is in fact happening at all. They conclude:
We have shown that anthropogenic forcings do not polynomially cointegrate with global temperature and solar irradiance. Therefore, data for 1880–2007 do not support the anthropogenic interpretation of global warming during this period.
My source for this quote is a Power Line article by John Hinderaker. Their statistics is out beyond what I studied as a doctoral student, but the journal is refereed so the stat is probably sound.