The Patriot Post® · And the Greatest Influencer of Climate on the West Coast Is ...

… the wind. What uncertainties arise when we actually study the climate. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists found the wind was the greatest influencer in the temperature of the ocean and coastal regions from California to Alaska for the last 112 years – even though Americans only increased greenhouse gas emission for the last 40. As winds blew weaker, the average temperature rose by one degree, according to the Los Angeles Times. Scientists from the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducted the study. That’s right, the government arm so often pushing a man-made global warming emergency produced a study that admitted the issue is more complicated than pop culture admits.