{"id":1728,"date":"2009-07-27T11:02:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2009-07-27T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:02:54","slug":"study-nature-responsible-for-global-warming-not-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/study-nature-responsible-for-global-warming-not-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Nature responsible for global warming, not man"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1252\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1252\" title=\"Hot or not?  Are the global climate models accurate or are they full of hot air? \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hotornot1.jpg\" alt=\"A new study says he El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) accounts for the vast majority of temperature variability.\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hotornot1.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hotornot1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new study says he El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) accounts for the vast majority of temperature variability.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new peer-reviewed study calls into question the so-called \u2018consensus\u2019 on the causes of global warming by saying that \u201cNature, not man, responsible for recent global warming.\u201d\u00a0 The new study authored by three Australian scientists and published in the Journal of Geophysical Research says that the El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) accounts for the vast majority of temperature variability.<\/p>\n<p>Authored by Chris de Freitas (University of Auckland in New Zealand), John McLean (Melbourne) and Bob Carter (James Cook University), the new study is sure to cause waves among those debating the causes of global warming.\u00a0 Completely contrary to the mainstream media\u2019s portrayal of climate change, the study says, \u201clittle or none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to human activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lead author de Freitas said in a press release, \u201cThe surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Ni\u00f1o conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Ni\u00f1a conditions less likely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m7d27-Study-Nature-responsible-for-global-warming-not-man\">This ground breaking study is sure to cause waves.\u00a0 Click here to read the full story on Examiner.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new peer-reviewed study calls into question the so-called \u2018consensus\u2019 on the causes of global warming by saying that \u201cNature, not man, responsible for recent global warming.\u201d\u00a0 The new study authored by three Australian scientists and published in the Journal of Geophysical Research says that the El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) accounts for the vast majority &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/study-nature-responsible-for-global-warming-not-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: Nature responsible for global warming, not man<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[736,282,283,131,191,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}