{"id":1262,"date":"2009-10-13T06:38:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T06:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2009-10-13T06:38:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T06:38:36","slug":"how_much_do_we_actually_know_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"How Much Do We Actually Know About Climate Changes And Why They Occur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8299079.stm\">BBC<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article entitled, &#8220;What happened to global warming?&#8221;&nbsp; The article states that for the past eleven years there has been no increase in global temperatures.&nbsp; During that time carbon dioxide levels have continued to rise.&nbsp; This contradicts the climate models some scientists have used to predict future climate changes.<\/p>\n<p>In a related story at <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2009\/10\/12\/fixing-the-nitrogen-cycle-in-climate-modeling\/#more-11642\">Watts Up With That<\/a>, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has sent out a press release saying that scientists from across the country have successfully found&nbsp;a way to incorporate the nitrogen cycle into climate change predictions.&nbsp; I have no idea what the science here is, but what this means to me is that scientists are still learning in their predictions of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently a total lack of agreement on what the trends in temperature will be over the coming years.&nbsp; Some scientists predict global warming, some predict global cooling.&nbsp; Generally speaking, the jury is still out.&nbsp; Keeping this in mind, it might be a good idea for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/en.cop15.dk\/\">United Nations Climate Change Conference<\/a>&nbsp;in Copenhagen to move cautiously to combat &#8216;global warming&#8217; rather than taking drastic action to solve a problem that may not exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the BBC&nbsp;posted an article entitled, &#8220;What happened to global warming?&#8221;&nbsp; The article states that for the past eleven years there has been no increase in global temperatures.&nbsp; During that time carbon dioxide levels have continued to rise.&nbsp; This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}