Prof. Patrick Michaels, again showing he's no slouch in a debate, reduced EPA chief Carol Browner to sputtering incoherency on Crossfire. Abroad, reporting was just as split. A Danish television station attacked the signers of the Leipzig Declaration. It is simply impossible, with today's state of knowledge, to predict what will happen in 100 years. Nobody wants to be labeled by greenhouse promoters as a skeptic or an agent of the oil lobby.
Nobody can say today with any authority if droughts or floods follow from global warming.
It simply cannot be done. It would be better to tell people the truth instead of keeping them upset with false arguments. Some groups are playing on that fear. We should point out that when they made that announcement they were six weeks short of data. Prof. Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger of the University of Virginia report that 1997 is actually shaping up as the 6th coldest since satellite readings began in 1979.