It Just Ain't So

Global Warming Is a Threat?

The Only Internally Consistent Picture Is One of a Very Modest Warming

OCTOBER 01, 2005 by PATRICK J. MICHAELS

Last December Naomi Oreskes, an associate professorof history at UCLA, published a WashingtonPost Outlook piece called Undeniable GlobalWarming. She asserted that the planet is warming(true), that increases in greenhouse gases have somethingto do with it (true), that several scientific societies holdthis view (true), that the remainder of the discussion isquibbling about the details, and that we must respondto the threats that global warming presents.