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The smoking gun

9 May 2005
Using ocean data collected by diving floats, U.S. climate scientists released a study Thursday that they said provides the "smoking gun" that ties manmade greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.

How long will it take for climate deniers to "explain" this away?

Caspar Henderson

(update 3 May: this post on RealClimate.org by one of the paper's authors)

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