Are climate variations a result of human actions? The website Climate Discussion Nexus summarizes an official publication of the Norwegian government. Hat tip to Instapundit for the link.
Well, this is awkward. Statistics Norway, aka Statistisk sentralbyrå or “the national statistical institute of Norway and the main producer of official statistics”, has just published a paper “To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?”The awkward part isn’t trying to grasp the subtleties of Norwegian since it’s also available in English. It’s that the Abstract bluntly declares that “standard climate models are rejected by time series data on global temperatures” while the conclusions state “the results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations.”
Climate has varied for many millennia, human activity on a scale to possibly affect climate has existed for what? Maybe two centuries?
Climate varies, always has, likely always will, quite independent of human intervention. The paleontological record shows this clearly. Alleging human causation is pure hubris.
