“Average global temperatures are still increasing, just not as quickly as they did in previous years, largely due to ocean cycles. “
But it does prove that the models are incorrect and the models are what the entire alarmist case is based on.
they sure haven’t been increasing in Michigan...I have been waiting for global warming for years and our winters still suck...
“But it does prove that the models are incorrect and the models are what the entire alarmist case is based on.”
Their response : but the models are correct if what had been modeled happened, and it could have.
An evaluation of rising temperatures is at best a superficial statement. The atmosphere DOES have a vertical dimension. It isn’t just latitude and longitude. And bodies of water (and of ice) have depths.
Until something grapples successfully with these additional factors, anthropogenic climate change fears remain only that, fears. I fear poisonous snakes too, but that does not mean I have a basis to conclude that my yard is full of them.
Exactly, and Ted's point as well. They are just constructing a straw man to redirect, or because they are too stupid to see his point, probably the latter.
Yup, their models are wrong but they still whine and twist their spin. Fox's Stossel interviewed people on the street in NYC, about global warming. Stossel asked about all the frigid snowy weather they were having. One gal said global warming is heating the ocean water, causing more moisture in the air which leads to more snow in the city. Stossel more or less said "Huh. So if the ocean water gets cooled then we'd have less snow!." The camera dwelt on the gal's puzzled face for a while as her head exploded in confusion. Alarmists like that gal can't deal with debate points that prove the falsity of global warming theories.
This is a major point. The global warming crowd believes their models are sacred and, if observations don’t match their models, then the observations are wrong and need to be “adjusted”. That is bass ackwards! When I went to grad school, one thing drummed in to me was that if your model doesn’t match your observations, then your model is wrong no matter how much you love it. That seems to have been lost on this generation of scientists.