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About Drew Johnson
Drew Johnson is a columnist, editorial writer and government waste expert atThe Washington Times.Mr. Johnson founded and served as president of Tennessee’s free-market think tank, is the former opinion page editor at theChattanooga Times Free Pressand serves a Senior Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance.
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It isn’t easy to be a weather alarmist these days. The weather just won’t pay attention to the learned professors. Really destructive hurricanes haven’t disturbed the Atlantic or Gulf coasts in nine years. Temperatures nationwide have been, when unusual, on the cool side. Temperature readings gathered by satellite show the Earth’s surface temperatures have leveled off since 1998. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. What’s the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group that insists the sky is falling, going to say in its synthesis report on Thursday?
The case against carbon dioxide — the stuff we breathe out and plants breathe in — has never been weaker. The climate doom criers insist that CO2, as a “greenhouse gas,” causes planetary temperatures to rise. According to the measurements of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, global average carbon dioxide levels are currently higher than ever, up 8 percent since 1998. So why have we been in a “pause” in global warming for the past two decades if CO2 and temperatures are directly linked?
