Weird weather around the world {Gadling}

Jan 12th 2008 6:17AM I'm sorry, but Julia is incorrect. Prior to the 1940's (World War II) the human contribution to greenhouse gases was negligible, according to the *all* the IPCC reports.

Also, so far, the total amount of global temperature change (from all causes, human and natural) is LESS than 1 degree C. The change is too small to sense it from anecdotal data ("it feels warmer outside" or "gee, the weather is odd"), you can only measure it statistically.

All of the above is the mainstream scientific consensus, although the newspapers won't report it.

My opinion is similar to the other poster named John, which is that current warming (which stopped in 1998!) is not too different from previous, historical warming periods during which the human influence was undetectable.