The author: Kristen Byrnes. Age 15, oops sorry, she is 16 now but when she created this website for a high school science project last year, 15 she was. I heard her interview on NPR this morning, visited her website:

http://home.earthlink.net/~ponderthemaundercf/id12...

and this is her introduction below:

"I will demonstrate that the Earth's warming climate is a result of natural variance and that man made changes in the warming climate in the last 40 years are negligible at best. I will insert pieces of the puzzle from new scientific studies that were not available or were ignored in previous global warming studies.

I add a possible piece of the puzzle, nuclear weapons testing in the late 1950's and early 1960's, that may have made a small contribution to cooling at that time.

After reviewing numerous scientific studies and observing data, it is clear that the theory that "man made increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are causing global warming" is not likely."

I urge all of my readers to go there and read the rest of her research. If indeed it is her work, that in itself is amazing enough to warrant the time you may think you're wasting reading it. Her analysis is ingenious. I can't wait to see Al Gore debate a 16 yr. old. That would be priceless indeed!

Read more about her at NPR's website: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story...