Junk Science

Idiot:

"Such contradictory reporting casually ignores the reality that greenhouse gas emissions can’t simultaneously cool and warm Europe."

Because that's actually not what they're describing. The Nature paper never says that there's simultaneous heating and cooling. If it's too difficult for Steven Milloy to wind his way through all the sciencey-difficult stuff, there's also an easy-to-comprehend summary at the beginning of the issue that also states:

"The implications of these observations are considerable. Palaeoclimate records show that northern air temperatures can drop by up to 10 °C within decades, and that these abrupt changes are intimately linked to switches in the ocean circulation. Increased freshwater input into the Nordic Seas will initially weaken the circulation only slowly. But when a certain threshold is reached, the circulation may jump abruptly to a new state in which there is little or no heat flux to the north. The system is highly nonlinear and will not immediately switch back to the warm mode when the freshwater input weakens."[emphasis mine]

You see, in the sick and twisted mind of a global warming denier, this is actually good news: catastrophic warming in some parts of the world are counteracted by catastrophic cooling in another part of the world. You're feeling a bit too warm in Greeland? No prob: move to Denmark!

And of course he has to mention the "Blair switch" in which Tony wrote in Setember "The truth is, no country is going to cut its growth or consumption substantially in light of a long-term environmental problem." Eh, yeah Steve, problem with that is Blair started that line of reasoning after he had firmly established the implied premise to that statement: 'without the involvement of the US'...

What a whackjob!