Friday, January 11, 2008

Local Israeli rainfall stats defy global warming fears

Ha'aretz put a denialist spin on local rainfall numbers: Despite warnings that global warming is already impacting precipitation quantities, local rainfall statistics have remained essentially unchanged in the 60 years they have been tracked. "While models project gloom and doom for climate change, field observation of rainfall indicates a grayer stability," according to Haifa University's Noam Halfon. The institute's geography department recently completed research that found no substantial change in rainfall quantities....

You have to read down a bit before a fuller picture emerges

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