Newsweek has the answer … in a quiz befitting Cosmo magazine it asked its readers “Which of these is not causing global warming today?
A) Sport Utility Vehicles
B) Rice Fields
C) Increased Solar Output
If you guessed C) Increased Solar Output you’d be right, according to the magazine. It seems the sun is off the hook for global warming, which is largely the fault of mankind according to co-authors Sharon Begley and Andrew Murr.
“Extremely warm summers, such as the 2003 European heat wave that killed thousands of people? A human fingerprint. Glacial retreat? Ditto, though it is partly natural. Stronger tropical storms, such as Katrina? Possibly our fault, though on this one the evidence is murkier. Heavy precipitation that alternates with dry spells, so that when it rains it pours? That also conforms to models of man-made climate change,” wrote Newsweek.
Begley and Murr pointed to the February 2007 IPCC report and quoted five scientists who agree that climate change is the fault of mankind, but didn’t include a single critic or opposing argument in the nearly three-page long July 9 article.
