A recent report published by the Science & Public Policy Institute (SPPI) - http://www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org/ - shows that natural variability from year-to-year and decade-to-decade plays a greater role in Georgia’s climate than any long-term trends.

At the century timescale, Georgia’s climate shows no statically significant trend in statewide average annual temperature, statewide total annual precipitation, or in the frequency and/or severity of droughts. Instead, observations show that the first part of the 20th century was warmer than the latter half - an indication that “global warming” is anything but “global” and also provides strong evidence that local and regional processes are more important than global ones in determining local climate variations and changes.

Also, CO₂ mitigation strategies will prove useless.  A complete cessation of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions in Georgia would result in a climatically-irrelevant global temperature reduction by the year 2100 of no more than five thousandths of a degree Celsius. Results for sea-level rise are also negligible. 

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