Those making the claim that we need to cut development drastically to stop human-caused global climate change have been saying "the debate is over" about three, basic items for about 20 years:

• The earth is warming
• Man is causing it
• We have to cut back development to stop it

That there's no debate used to be almost true of the first point. It's never been true of the other two, though it was closer about 10 years ago: a growing number of scientists dispute how much man is the cause of the warming, pointing to factors like solar effects on clouding, ocean currents, and the earth's rhythmic cycles; and sensible people everywhere note that even the most drastic plans to cut back will not affect global temperature enough to matter, and we just have to get used to warmer weather. However, on the first point -- that the earth is warming -- there's been very little serious disagreement.

Until recently. Today, that's on the table, too. Two things have happened:

1. The earth's measured temperature stopped rising around 1998, and this year it fell dramatically. There hasn't been any warming for 10 years, so far as we can tell.
2. It's becoming apparent that much of the warming we've seen in the last 30 years has been because of bad measurements.

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The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration of the US Department of Commerce (NOAA) announced last Thursday that a team of scientists studying the economic impact of hurricanes over the past century have discovered that the rise in hurricane damages are due entirely to increases in population, wealth, and infrastructure, not any increase in the frequency or destructiveness of hurricanes.

A team of scientists have found that the economic damages from hurricanes have increased in the U.S. over time due to greater population, infrastructure, and wealth on the U.S. coastlines, and not to any spike in the number or intensity of hurricanes.

“There is nothing in the U.S. hurricane damage record that indicates global warming has caused a significant increase in destruction along our coasts.”

You can find the actual paper here.

Question: did you read about this in the newspaper, or hear about it on TV news? If not, why not?

Answer: I could find no news organization on the Internet that reported this story, though a number of conservative blogs picked it up. The news media, wholeheartedly invested in promoting the political agenda underlying the Human-Caused Global Climate Change hoax, will not report scientific findings that do not support their thesis. Therefore, if it happens to be true that humans are not causing global warming, you will never know about it unless you research the topic for yourself.

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