Posted on 08/07/2014 2:36:36 PM PDT by iowamark
Much has been written and argued, from all sides in the global warming debate, about the meaning of the asserted 17-year pause in global warming. Is a 17-year pause significant? Is a pause even occurring? Does the pause signal a longer-term halt to global warming or even a long-term cooling trend? Would a resumption of global warming to pre-pause rates end the global warming debate? A look at recent temperatures and their appropriate context provides helpful meaning to the much-discussed global warming pause.
Satellite instruments began uniformly measuring temperatures throughout the Earth’s lower atmosphere in 1979. Climate scientists overseeing these NASA satellite instruments produced the chart below showing the following temperature trends:
a plateau of temperatures, with absolutely no warming, from 1979 through 1997, a large temperature spike in 1998, a return to the 1979-1997 mean in 1999-2000, a modest escalation of temperatures in 2001, an elevated plateau of essentially flat temperatures from 2002-2014,...
Pulling this all together, we can reach the following conclusions:
The global warming pause is real. The global warming pause is significant. The global warming pause is not likely to be permanent. A future resumption of global warming at pre-pause rates – or even modestly accelerated rates – would not validate IPCC global warming predictions, and would instead continue to undermine the IPCC’s predictions of very rapid 21st century global warming. The most meaningful aspect of the global warming pause isn’t that temperatures have flattened for 17 years, but rather that the global warming pause extends and solidifies the longer-term record of smaller-than-predicted global temperature rise.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
We had a cold winter, and a cooler summer, here in Buffalo. I I feel blessed to have a break before the coming inferno.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I am sending that video to several friends
Drove around Buffalo just a few hours ago. Decent traffic til I hit Cleveland. We came north to Niagara specifically because of the nice cool weather and little rain forecast this week. Really nice area. You are in a beautiful part of the USA with lakes, rivers, forests. We are MUCH cooler than ever at this time of year in southern Ohio. A couple of low temp records broken last week. In my life, real hot summers and real cold winters always seem to come in packages of at least two. I’m expecting another really cold winter.
Shut up and sing.m
Oh, wrong James Taylor?
I am here to tell you that Western New York and east, through the Finger Lakes and up to the Mohawk Valley is some of the most beautiful, and underrated areas of the country, especially in summer. Cooperstown in summer, for example, would give heaven a run for its money.
Do the Climate Alarmists have a roulette table in Vegas that I can play?
If it's black you win.
If it's red you win.
If the marble jumps off the table you win.
There is NO WAY for them to lose if you play their rigged game!
There must be a lot of carney blood in Algore and Hock Stick boy.
“Give up all your freedoms and money to the government!”
It's the only thing that can save us from having an increase in temperature of.oooo77334000051 over the next 100 years. Rich people with beachfront property might lose 3 inches of beach by 2125!!!!
Do it for the children!!!!!!!
I was really impressed with the entire area from Lake Ontario, Fort Niagara, the Falls, and the surrounding forests. I’d never been up there before. Gorgeous everyplace and many stately 100 year plus hardwoods. The acres and acres of grapes surprised me. They must have some really hardy varieties they use.
This is what happens when people are educated beyond their intelligence.
How can there be a one-year “spike” in the mean temperature of that complex agglomeration that is the earth’s atmosphere? How can it be so “un-buffered?”
Some think only California can produce wine. Upstate New York, baby, it’s where its at. Now if we can only get rid of the freakin’ liberals.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
It wouldn’t hurt to get rid of the toll booths when you get rid of the liberals. I think they go together hand in glove. Lol.
Thanks for posting the Forbes article.
It’s one of the clearest and most concise summaries of this issue I’ve ever seen.
To: All those enjoying a cool summer in the eastern USA.
Seattle is paying the price for your comfort.
I think we are now at 15 straight days above 80F, which is brutal for us “heat” wimps with no AC.
A couple days ago it was 89F in Death Valley, but 90F in Seattle!
How many people will remember the “anthropomorphic” garbage science in six years, when the weather will probably be much more interesting? I can see the new glaciers through the window.
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