‘Global Cooling’ Claims False: Statisticians

The claims that the world is cooling are false, according to four independent statisticians corralled by The Associated Press.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The claims that the world is cooling are false, according to four independent statisticians corralled by The Associated Press.

The statisticians were given temperature data from NOAA’s year-to-year ground temperature changes with which to interpret trends found no declines over the last 130 years.

The statisticians also found the same result after analysing the 30 years of satellite-measured temperatures used by skeptics and collected by scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

David Peterson, a retired Duke University statistics professor, told the AP that scientific standards cannot back up the global warming skeptics’ claim that a downward trend has occurred since 1998.

NOAA climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt noted that the global temperature was trending the opposite direction, in fact.

“The last 10 years are the warmest 10-year period of the modern record. Even if you analyze the trend during that 10 years, the trend is actually positive, which means warming,” he said.

This analysis comes after a new book promoting “global cooling” by the authors of the best-seller “Freakonomics” was released.

The Union of Concerned Scientists said the book lies about climate science by distoring the statistics.

Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford, called the book’s claim “ridiculous” since the authors focuses its claim on a small window out of the temperature record.