At the time, Kristen was being invited by all kinds of media outlets -- including Fox News -- to discuss her research either on television or radio. All such requests were turned down, as Kristen wasn't ready for the camera or the microphone.

Well, it appears that turning sixteen has been a good thing for Kristen's confidence, for on Tuesday, she was interviewed by NPR, and she did a fabulous job.

As such, with great pride, I recommend you sit back, and listen to America's future, which, with folks like Kristen waiting in the wings, is far better than the left and their media minions want you to believe (audio available here).  Source

Although some news outlets would have us believe that there is some division in the research community on this matter - it seems as though a large portion of the opposition to Landsea’s view are either disreputable researchers or those using faulty techniques to contradict research that’s shown increases in Atlantic hurricane intensity in response to growing atmospheric greenhouse gas levels are unlikely. In fact (from the UPI story linked above):

Climate Science (and other weblogs) have posted detailed information on the issues associated with different methods to assess global climate system heat changes. Readers can access examples of these posts on Climate Audit, Watts Up With That, Hall of Record, ICECAP and The Blackboard.

This current Climate Science weblog is intended to just summarize the issue as there are still individuals who perpeturate the claim that measuring near surface air temperature at irregularly spaced observation sites around the globe can accurately diagnose global warming. 

The expert jury is divided, with 26 per cent attributing global warming to human activity like burning fossil fuels and 27 per cent blaming other causes such as volcanoes, sunspots, earth crust movements and natural evolution of the planet.

A 99-per-cent majority believes the climate is changing. But 45 per cent blame both human and natural influences, and 68 per cent disagree with the popular statement that "the debate on the scientific causes of recent climate change is settled."

The divisions showed up in a canvass of more than 51,000 specialists licensed to practice the highly educated occupations by the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta. 

With all the hype about global warming generated by corporations, media, and grant seekers I thought that you might like a little straight talk about global warming as climatologists not driven by funding or shackled from truth telling see the issue. This will be enlightening, so read up!

Earth started warming about 18,000 years ago. Much of our land on many continents were buried under glacial ice for more than 100,000 years before that. Our earth’s temperature has risen about 15 degrees since then and sea levels are up 300 feet. Warming and cooling goes on in cycles with 2 complete cycles of cooling and warming occurring in the last 100 years. If our warming continues on patterns similar to previous patterns (and there is no reason to doubt they will not) we are actually just between ice ages and warming will reverse again. We can only hope that this current cold will be temporary!

In recent years the public has been mislead to believe that C2O2 produced by our use of fossil fuel is the cause of the current warming trends. C2O2 currently comprises around 1/10 of one percent of our atmosphere and is not the gas to be watchful of when worrying about the greenhouse effect. In actuality evaporated water with its large molecules is the main source of the greenhouse effect. It may be comforting to realize that these molecules are also reflective, so while they do hold warmth in, they also reflect warming rays. The earth’s wetlands result in more greenhouse effect than all of human sources combined.