Yesterday, on the inaugural day of the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Charles J. Hanley, special correspondent for the Associated Press on matters of climate change, published an article announcing that the past decade was the warmest ever on record. Hanley wrote the article as if all the world's climatologists are in unanimous agreement that: a) the Earth is warming, and, b) that the cause is man-made. In fact, there is no global consensus in the scientific community on either of those assertions. Indeed, there exists a substantial sub-community of scientists who are global warming skeptics.
Two Russian solar physicists, Galina Mashnich and Vladmir Bashkirtsev are so confident that the Earth is cooling that they challenged any climatologist to a $10,000 wager that global temperatures will fall between the years 2012 and 2017. Not a single climatologist--nor scientists from any field for that matter--has accepted their challenge.
