New NOAA study finds global warming on the West coast is natural and not man-made

  According to this article the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the University of Washington, have released a new study which concludes that the warming which is supposedly taking place on the West coast is actually a natural occurrence. 

  Here is more from the article:

The study, published as “Atmospheric controls on northeast Pacific temperature variability and change, 1900–2012,” reports that while “Northeast Pacific coastal warming since 1900 is often ascribed to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing…century-long warming around the northeast Pacific margins, like multidecadal variability, can be primarily attributed to changes in atmospheric circulation,” and not to human burning of fossil fuels.

The Los Angeles Times quotes study leader James Johnstone: “Changing winds appear to explain a very large fraction of the warming from year to year, decade to decade and the long-term.” The Times adds: “This latest research shows that similar changes in atmospheric and ocean circulation can drive trends that last a century or longer, overshadowing the effects of human-generated increase in greenhouse gases, the study’s authors said.

   So for over 100 years the Pacific coast has been warming and while man-made global warming has been cited as the reason for this we are now being told that for the most part the warming is natural and not the result of man-made global warming. It has to do with circulation but of course the study just could not rule out that man had a least a small part in the warming. (The university has to protect its grant money after all and can not afford to totally rule out man-made global warming lest they upset the wrong people.)

  And yet even as the science becomes less settled Barack Obama took to the floor of the United Nations and promised to take, what else, Executive Action on global warming. The agenda marches forward…