Cooling is what caused atmospheric rivers???

Vincent J. Curtis

4 May 23

RE: Worries over sudden spike in ocean temperatures.  AP story by Seth Borenstein. The Hamilton Spectator 1 May 23.

If there’s a sudden spike in ocean temperatures, who else could be responsible except Western civilization and it’s proclivity to emit CO2 into the atmosphere?  That’s the implication, though AP science writer Seth Borenstein knows enough not to cross that line and actually say it.  Because it isn’t true, and he knows he’d be crucified for saying it. ("Science has yet to determine cause!")

The story does contain an interesting nugget when he writes about “a cooling called La Nina, that has been unusually strong and long, lasting three years and causing extreme weather.”  Those “atmospheric rivers” that plagued British Columbia and California these last three years were caused not by warming but by cooling.  Previously, we were assured that “atmospheric rivers” and other “extreme weather” phenomenon were signs of man-caused global warming, and now we are informed that it was due to naturally occurring cooling all along.

It’s hard to take AP science writing seriously when they’re talking about climate.

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