2008-04-06 Lord Lawson claims climate change hysteria heralds a new age of unreason

• when: 2008/04/06 (2008/04/06)
• source: telegraph.co.uk
• author: Christopher Booker
• topics: global warming/skepticism/arguments Lord Lawson
• URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/06/ealawson106.xml
• title: Lord Lawson claims climate change hysteria heralds a 'new age of unreason'
• summary: «On the other hand, global temperatures, after flattening out, have in recent months shown a sharp fall, wholly unpredicted by those computer models on which the proponents of warming orthodoxy rely. This raises rather large question marks over whether the theory has actually got it right»

Commentary

The article does not provide any links to the data in question, however, so it is not clear if this claim is sheer invention or based on actual data. It seems unlikely that a few months of falling temperatures would be statistically significant; the fact that this data is being treated as conclusive proof of the fallaciousness of GW smacks more of global warming denial than of genuine analysis. Also, GW proponents do not "rely" on "computer models" in order to unambiguously detect GW; it's a clear trend in the data. Move this to "denial" only when a definitive counterargument is found, however.