re: #205 oaktree

I’d have to do a much deeper amount of research before I can make a fully reasonable response. My initial three opinions are:

1. An article like this pops up every initial winter cold snap ever since AGW got going in the media.

2. I’d need to know more about Prof. Latif, the depth of his research, and how his theories and data are viewed by the meteorological community. Is he part of a small contrarian group who thinks the current models have inaccuracies, or is he at this point essentially viewed as a “crank” with some serious flaws in the model and data he proposes?

3. It also seems that the article goes with Latif’s claim that his model covers 50% of the warm/cold trends. How does said model account for increased atmospheric CO2, and run-on effects from that in the future? (I.E. could Latif actually think that CO2 is a threat, but that the incorrect IPCC model is giving up less time that we actually have before climate changes screw-over human civilization.

I note that the few comments I saw with that article were typical foaming at the mouth denier remarks.

Concur, and the Mail is a very conservative paper well-known for alarmist headlines…